Module 3 - Approach to a Patient with Memory Loss Flashcards
A general mental efficiency or an innate cognitive ability.
Intelligence
It is the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience and the senses.
Cognition
The aggregate or global capacity of an individual to act purposefully, to think rationally, and to deal effectively with his environment.
Intelligence
The process of KNOWING and how we gather and perceive information around you and the environment.
Cognition
The following statements are true about Dementia EXCEPT:
A. A deficit in intelligence
B. Not a diagnosis, but a symptom
C. It is an acquired, persistent impairment of intellectual function with compromise in multiple spheres of mental activity
D. With little or no disturbance of consciousness or perception
A. A deficit in intelligence
It is a deficit in cognition, not in intelligence.
Dementia consists of the following EXCEPT:
A. Cognitive dysfunction
B. Disorders of mood and affect
C. Movement disorders
D. Disorders of behavior
C. Movement disorders
True or False
Dementia is a part of normal aging.
False. Not part of aging.
The following are correctly paired EXCEPT:
A. Language: Dominant cerebral hemisphere
B. Memory: Posterior part of parietal lobe
C. Visuo-spatial orientation: Non-dominant parietal lobe
D. Behavior, stability of personality: Frontal lobe
B. Memory: Posterior part of parietal lobe
Diencephalon and inferomedial parts of the temporal lobes are the structures associated with memory.
An impaired ability to recall events and info that has been firmly established before the onset of the illness.
Retrograde amnesia
An impaired ability to acquire certain types of new information, i.e., to learn or to form new memories.
Anterograde amnesia
The database type of information. It is associated with amygdalo-hippocampal areas of the medial temporal region, Papez circuit. It is also called as episodic, semantic, primary or working memory.
Declarative memory
Memory system for dating personal experiences, and their temporal relationships. Contextual.
Episodic
One’s repository of perceptual and factual knowledge, which makes it possible to comprehend language and make inferences. Generic.
Semantic
A module of memory that registers the results of a mental operation and holds it temporarily in order to manipulate it or use it to perform a subsequent operation
Working Memory
Which of the following dementing disease has the highest relative frequency?
A. Intracranial tumors
B. Alzheimer’s disease
C. Alcoholic dementia
D. Multi-infarct dementia
B. Alzheimer’s disease
Its most common feature is its INSIDIOUS onset of dementia
Alzheimer’s disease
Onset of dementia within 3 months from the stroke or abrupt deterioration or stepwise progression with every stroke
Vascular dementia
A distinctive cerebral disease in which a rapid and progressive dementia is associated with myoclonic jerks
CREUTZFELD-JAKOB DISEASE
Triad of normal pressure hydrocephalus include the following EXCEPT:
A. Slowly progressive gait disorder
B. Impairment of mental function
C. Sphincteric incontinence
D. Increased intraocular pressure
D. Increased intraocular pressure
Prominent microgranulomatous foci of multinucleate giant cells (MGC) in white matter are usually seen in this disease
AIDS Dementia
Vitamin that is deficient in Pellagra
Vitamin B3 or Niacin
The most commonly administered psychometric screening assessment of cognitive functioning.
The FOLSTEIN Mini-Mental Status Examination
MMSE cut-off for dementia
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Based on the Bedside Classification of Dementia, what type of dementia is associated with clinical and laboratory signs of other medical diseases?
Type I
