Memory Disorders

Question 1

What memory disorders involves explicit memory impairment?

Answer 1

Alzheimer’s

Question 2

What memory disorder involves implicit memory impairment?

Answer 2

Parkinson’s

Question 3

What general things are impaired in alzheimer’s

Answer 3

memory, visuospatial skills, judgement, language, personality

Question 4

What disorder involves circumlocutory speech and poor word list generation?

Answer 4

Alzheimer’s

Question 5

When does posture rigidity and incontinence usually develop in alzheimers?

Answer 5

8-10 years

Question 6

Delusions, hallucinations, irritability, depression are examples of _____ symptoms that all Alzheimer’s patients experience

Answer 6

psychiatric

Question 7

What causes the progression of Alzheimer’s?

Answer 7

Substantial loss of neurons as it progresses

Question 8

What are the first areas to show abnormal changes in Alzheimer’s?

Answer 8

entorhinal cortex, hippocampus (temporal lobe)

Question 9

Atrophy and cell death progress from the temporal lobe to which other lobes as Alheimer’s progresses?

Answer 9

frontal, parietal

Question 10

What are demographic risk factors for Alzhemier’s?

Answer 10

Age (after 60), gender (women), genetics

Question 11

What are treatments for Alzheimer’s?

Answer 11

Cholinesterase inhibitors (inhibits breaking down acetycholine) NMDA glutamate receptor blocker)

Question 12

What brain areas are involved in Parkinson’s?

Answer 12

Pathology in dopamine cells of substantia nigra

Question 13

What interventions are used to treat Parkinson’s?

Answer 13

L-Dopa, surgery to basal ganglia