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Dementia/congenital impairment Flashcards

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What is dementia?

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Global impairment of cognitive function and personality without impairment of consciousness

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When is dementia consider early onset?

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Before the age of 65

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How long do symptoms of dementia have to be present for a diagnosis of dementia to be made?

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6 months

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What is the most common cause of dementia?

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Alzheimer’s disease

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What drugs may be used to slow the progress of Alzheimer’s disease?

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ACh inhibitors

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What drugs can cause a Parkinsonian reaction in Lewy Body dementia?

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Antipsychotics

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Name the dementia

Uneven or stepwise deterioration in cognitive function

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Vascular

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Name the dementia

Spontaneous motor signs of Parkinson’s (rigidity/ bradykinesia/ tremor)

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Lewy body

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Name the dementia

Evidence of CVD/ stroke

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Vascular dementia

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Name the dementia

Early decline in social and personal conduct ( disinhibition/ tactless)

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Frontotemporal (picks)

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Name the dementia

Decreased speech output, echolalia, perseveration, mutism

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Front temporal

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Gradual onset with cognitive decline, other dementia are excluded

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Alzheimer’s

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Transient disturbances of consciousness with recurrent visual hallucinations

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Lewy body

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What is agnosia?

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Can’t name objects

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What are the main differences between delerium and dementia?

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Delerium is an acute onset with a fluctuating progression and there is impaired consciousness where in dementia there is no impaired consciousness
Also I delerium there is perceptual disturbance and impaired sleepwalker cylcle - not so much in dementia

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What is a perceptual disturbance?

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Misinterpretation
Illusion
Hallucination

A scale between the 3

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What variable are tested in a cognitive function test?

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Orientatation
Attention and concentration
Memory 
Language 
Construction
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What is a catastrophic reaction?

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Reaction to a test where patient may get upset and refuse to go on with the test

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What is the prevalence if dementia?

What is the prevalence in those over 90?

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1 in 85

35%

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What is the life expectancy of someone with Alzheimer’s?

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5-8 years

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What is pseudo dementia?

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When you have really severe depression that starts to cause dementia

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What is nominal dysphasia?

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Can describe object but not name it

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How severe is the dementia that is sufficient to interfer with ADLs but can still live independently?

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Mild

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Define the 4 ICD symptoms of dementia

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Decline in memory
Decline in cognitive functions (judgement, thinking, planning)
Decline in emotional control/ behaviour
Damage to higher cortical functions (aphasia, agnosia, apraxia)

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Name some other causes of deme tail other than the obvious 4

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CJD
Huntingtons
HIV
Parkinson's 
Alcohol
Vit B12 def
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What are pick cells?

What are pick bodies?

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Ballooned neurones

Tau/ubiquitin protein bodies

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What are the three types of fronto temporal dementia?

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  • behavioural variant
  • progressive non fluent aphasia
  • semantic
27
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What is behavioural variant FTD?

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Frontal love involvement predominates leading to changes in personality/ behaviour

28
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What is progressive non-fluent aphasia?

Which love predominates?

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Temporal lobe leading to loss of language skills either in production or understanding

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What is fronto temporal semantic dementia?

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Loss of semantic memnoryy - knowledge of things and concepts

30
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Is someone with fronto temporal dementia likely to have insight?

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What test can you use to test for perseveration?

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Rhythmic tapping tasks - I tap once you tap twice

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Why would a CT show is frontotemporal dementia?

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Frontotemporal atrophy

Also “knife blade atrophy”

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How does the Lewy body dementia differ with picks histology ally

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Lewy bodies and plaques but few fibrillary tangles in Lewy body

34
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Where are the Lewy bodies in Parkinson’s and LBD?

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LBD - cortex, hippocampus

Parkinson’s - midbrain/ substansia nigra

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What is the difference between 1) “dementia with Lewy bodies” and 2) “Parkinson’s disease dementia”?

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You have movement disorder then
Cognitive impairement
1) within a year
2) more than a year later

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What are Lewy bodies?

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Deposits of protein (alpha synuclein) within nerve cells

37
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Is Lewy body dementia more common in males or females?

38
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What are the three core features of Lewy body dementia?

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Fluctuating cognition
Motor features of Parkinson’s
Visual hallucinations

39
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Name the dementia

Recurrent falls, syncope, LOC

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Lewy body dementia

40
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What are the five As of Alzheimer’s?

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Amnesia
Aphasia
Agnosia
Apraxia
Associated behaviours - bpsd
41
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What does bpsd stand for?

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Behavioural and psychological symptoms in dementia

42
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Give examples of cortical dementia?

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Alzheimer’s
Vascular
Frontotemporal

43
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Give examples of sub cortical dementia

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Parkinson’s
Huntingtons
Progressive supra nuclear palsy

44
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What is the difference between cortical and sub cortical dementia?

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??
Cortical often has focal cognitive impairment - memory, language, problem solving
Sub cortical - psychomotor slowing

45
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In Alzheimer’s what are present in he cortex and hippocampus?

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Neurofibrilary tangles

Amyloid plaques

46
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What genetic factors predispose to late onset Alzheimer’s?

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Appoliprotein E4 (ApoE)

47
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What genetic factors influence early onset Alzheimer’s?

What is the pattern of inheritance?

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Prenesillin 1 and 2

Autosomal dominant

48
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What are the risk factors for vascular dementia?

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Hypertension
High cholesterol
Diabetes
Smoking

49
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Normal pressure hydrocephalus can cause dementia, what features does this have?

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Patchy dementia
Marked mental slowness apathy
Wide based gait
Urinary incontinance

50
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In an old person with memory problems what might you want to rule out?

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Depression - severe depression can cause memory loss

51
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Name some anticholinesterases

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Donepezil, rivistigmine, galantamine

52
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When should anticholinesterases be used?

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In mild to moderate Alzheimer’s/ Lewy body

53
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What is memantine?

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Modulates glutamine transmission

54
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What is memantine used for?

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Moderate to severe Alzheimer’s

55
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What has a worse prognosis Alzheimer’s or vascular?

56
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What is the average length of delerium?

57
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What drugs can be used in Alzheimer’s dementia?

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Acetylcholinesterase inhibitors

Memantine

58
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How does memantine work?

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Glutamate receptor antagonist

59
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Name some ACh esterase inhibitors

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Donepezil, galantamine, rivistigmine

60
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What is there a risk of if a person is on both Donepezil and an antipsychotic?

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Neuroleptic malignant syndrome

61
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What factors assessed when assessing cognition?

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Orientation (time, place, person)
Concentration/ attention 
Memory 
Language 
Construction
62
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What are the 5 A’s of Alzheimer’s?

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Amnesia
Apraxia 
Aphasia
Agnosia
Associated behaviours / psych conditions
63
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What groups of people is Alzheimer’s screened for?

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Down’s syndrome
Post stroke
Parkinson’s disease

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