MCI And Common Types Of Dementia

Question 1

Symptoms of mild cognitive impairment

Answer 1

Mild problems with:
Memory
Reasoning
Attention
Language
Visual perception

Question 2

Treatment of MCI

Answer 2

No pharmacological treatment

Question 3

What is the most common type of dementia

Answer 3

Alzzheimer’s

Question 4

Alzheimer’s disease

Answer 4

Plaques and tangles causing loss of nerve cells and brain tissue

Question 5

Symptoms of Alzheimer’s

Answer 5

Episodic memory more than semantic
Language and visiospatial skills
Changes in mood

Question 6

What causes vascular dementia?

Answer 6

Damage to blood vessels, Brian cells are starved of oxygen and nutrients

Question 7

What are the risk factors for vascular dementia ?

Answer 7

Multiple infarcts
Small vessel disease
Chronic ischaemia

Question 8

Symptoms of vascular dementia

Answer 8

Gait disturbance
Depression and emotional liability
Impaired executive function
Possible impact on speech, language and swallowing

Question 9

Dementia with Lewy bodies

Answer 9

Deposits of alpha-synuclei in brain cells

Question 10

Symptoms of dementia with Lewy bodies

Answer 10

Fluctuating attention and alterness
Hallucinations and delusions
Movement problems
Naomi’s

Question 11

What are the three d’s

Answer 11

Dementia
Delirium
Depression

Question 12

What are the three types of primary progressive aphasia?

Answer 12

• Logopenic progressive aphasia
• semantic dementia
• progressive non-fluent aphasia

Question 13

Wernicke-karaskoff syndrome

Answer 13

Orientation and memory problems, personality changes, poor insight, confabulation