Disorders Dementia

Question 1

Alzheimer’s stages

Answer 1

1) short-term memory (forgetting things)
2) further explicit memory loss (anterograde and retrograde amnesia), change in mood fluent aphasia, difficulty with complex tasks
3) looks of speech, can’t recognize family, motor problems, bed ridden, opportunistic respiratory infection

Question 2

Intelligence and age

Answer 2

Speed, motor skills not as quick over time

But Long-term memory
Language are crystallized intelligence that don’t decline over time

Verbal, working memory, perceptual organization, processing speed in order of least decline over time

Question 3

Seizures

Answer 3

Grand mal - tonic (extension of the legs) and clonic (violent rhythmic contractions)

Petit mal

Question 4

Cryptomnesia

Answer 4

Perceiving recovery of info from memory is own original idea

Question 5

Source amnesia

Answer 5

An episodic memory disorder when contextual info about facts are distorted or hard to recall.

Question 6

Dementia due to HIV

Answer 6

Involves cognitive, personality and motor symptoms

Poor attention, cognitive slowing, apathy, forgetfulness, clumsiness and leg weakness.

Question 7

Occipital lobe

Answer 7

Peripheral vision - anterior

Central vision - posterior