Extra Flashcards
What are some risk factors for dementia?
Age, family history, hearing loss, gender (women more).
What is perhaps the most prominent symptom of Alzhimer’s Disease?
Impaired episodic memory and learning.
By the state of severe dementia in Alzheimer’s Disease, what is evident?
Global cognitive impairment.
How is the behavioural variant of fronto-temporal dementia differentiated?
Based on the primacy of personality and behavioural changes and executive dysfunction, but otherwise relatively preserved cognition.
What is the ultimate environmental modification for dementia patients?
‘Dementia villages’
A person diagnosed with LBD vs PD depends on:
what symptoms present first
Those with an intellectual disability are at a greater risk of what?
Psychosis
What is an intervention designed as an approach to cognitive rehabilitation in schizophrenia?
Cognitive adaptation training.
