Dementia

Question 1

is dementia a diffused or focal brain disorder

Answer 1

diffused

Question 2

dementia brought on by THI, brain infection, tumor or nutritional deficiency

Answer 2

non-progressive/reversible dementia

Question 3

a disease process of dementia

Answer 3

progressive/irreversible

Question 4

name two types of degenerative dementia

Answer 4

alzheimers, parkinsons

Question 5

what are the two subtypes of alzheimers disease

Answer 5

early onset <65 and late onset <65

Question 6

death of neurons

Answer 6

neuronal loss

Question 7

what areas are affected by neuronal loss in alzheimers disease

Answer 7

frontal, parietal and temporal cortex and the hippocampus

Question 8

what are the two primary markers of alzheimers disease

Answer 8

neurofibrillary tangles and amyloid plaques

Question 9

what are the risk factors of alzheimers disease

Answer 9

age, gender women >men, education, genetic predisposition, history of thi

Question 10

do people with alzheimers have poor declarative or procedural memory

Answer 10

declarative, areas such as the basal ganglia and cerebellum in control of procedural memory are not affected