Intro To Dementia

Question 1

Memory in normal ageing

Answer 1

Results I occasiinal forgetfulness

Question 2

Dementia is

Answer 2

Cognitive failure accompanied by deterioration in day to day function + progression

Question 3

Cognitive domains

Answer 3

Memory 
Thinking 
Orientation
Calculation
Learning 
Language 
Judgement

Question 4

Early stages of dementia linked to

Answer 4

Distribution of brain and neurotransmitter dysfunction in early stages

Question 5

Late stage dementia linked to

Answer 5

Regional and global brain atrophy

Question 6

Amnesia

Answer 6

Forget recent events
New info
Recall impaired
Long term better

Question 7

Aphasia
Apraxia
Agnosia

Answer 7

Language deficit
High motor deficit
Perceptual deficit

Question 8

Test for cognition

Answer 8

Mini mental state exam (MMSE)

ACE-4 (Aden Brooke’s cognitive exam)

Question 9

Hallucinations

Answer 9

Seeing! Smelling or hearing something that isn’t there (usually people or animals)

Question 10

Delusion

Answer 10

False belief

Usually theft

Question 11

Difference in delirium and dementia

Answer 11

Dementia is chronic delirium is acute

Question 12

Alzheimer’s characteristics

Answer 12

Gradual onset

Memory involved early

Question 13

Vascular dementia features

Answer 13

Stepwise deterioration in cognitive function

Often coexists with Alzheimer’s

Vascular risk factors

Question 14

Levy body dementia a

Answer 14

Day to day fluctuation in cognition

Visual hallucination s

Disturbances of consciousness

Parkinson’s

Syncope

Falls

Question 15

Frontotemporal dementia features

Answer 15

Early decline in social/ personal conduct

Memory preserved

Different variants affecting behaviour/ language

Question 16

Treatment

Answer 16

Memory clinic

Geriatrics

Question 17

Drugs

Answer 17

AchE
Donepezil
Galantimine
Rivastigmine