Dementia Flashcards
Language Symptoms:
Verbal and literal paraphasias Problems comprehending abstract meanings Impaired picture description Echolalia Palilalia Logoclonia (repeating the final syllable of words) empty jargon
Alzhemier Language Symptoms:
General Symptoms:
- severe problems recalling remote and recent events
- widespread intellectual deterioration
- Hyperactivity
- Restlessness
- Agitation
- Seizures
- Paranoia, delusions, hallucinations
- Aggression
Later-stage symptoms
Language Symptoms:
Slow speech Moderate naming difficulties Severe difficulty repeating phrases and sentences Impaired sentence comprehension Behavioral changes
Logopenic PPA
Causes:
Infectious dementia:
HIV, Creutzfeldt-Jakob
Causes:
Dementia with Parkinson’s
- Basal ganglia
- Presence of Lewy Bodies
- Frontal lobe atrophy
- Reduced inhibitory dopamine
- Neurofibrillary tangles and plaques (as found in AD)
Language Symptoms:
Loss of word meaning Excessive and disinhibited speech Visual agnosia and prosopagnosia Behavior changes Shorter sentences
Semantic
Primary Progressive Aphasia
Causes:
Dementia with Huntington’s
Loss of neurons in basal ganglia
Atrophy in prefrontal and parietal lobes
Reduced inhibitory transmitters, especially GABA
Causes:
Alzheimer Type
- Neurofibrillary tangles
- neuritic plaques
- neuronal loss
- Neurochemical changes
Language Symptoms:
- Deterioration of intellectual functions
- Impaired word list generation
- Naming problems
- D-ysarthria
- Incontinence, sleep disturbances
- muteness
Dementia with Huntington’s
Causes:
Primary Progressive Aphasia
Frontotemporal lobes
General Symptoms:
Chorea Tic like movements Gait Slow movement Behavior disorders
Dementia with Huntington’s
General Symptoms:
Bradykinesia Tremors o Muscle rigidity Mask like face Reduced eye blinking Swallowing
Dementia with Parkinson’s
General Symptoms:
behavior changes initially
emotional disturbances
Impaired judgement
Frontotemporal Dementia (INcluding Pick’s Disease)
Language Symptoms:
Better preserved memory Loss of vocabulary Difficulty defining common words Limited spontaneous speech impaired comprehension
Frontotemporal Dementia (INcluding Pick’s Disease)
Language Symptoms:
Anomia
Word finding
Apraxia
Memory and cog preserved until 2 years post onset
Nonfluent Primary Progressive Aphasia
