Neuro G Dementia Flashcards
1
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Cerebrovascular risk factor Personality change Dyskinesia Bradykinesia Visual hallucinations Mood change and family history of depression Longstanding alcoholism
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Vascular dementia Frontotemporal dementia Huntington’s Parkinson’s Lewy body dementia Depressive dementia Alcoholic dementia
2
Q
Required tests for dementia
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Imaging studies Blood tests Urinalysis Electrocardiogram Chest X-rays Genetic studies for HD
3
Q
MMS score below which establishes dementia
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20
4
Q
Trail making test domain
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Executive function
5
Q
Clock drawing purpose
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Screen for Alzheimer’s
6
Q
Differentiation between AD MCI & AD Dementia
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Maintaining independence
7
Q
Mean AD survival
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10 years
8
Q
AD brain finding
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Cortical hypoperfusion, ventricular dilatation, sulcal enlargement
9
Q
AD motor finding
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restlessness in stage 2
rigidity in stage 3
10
Q
AD Neurofibrillary tangles & Neuritic plaques
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Not unique to AD
11
Q
4 genetic AD risk factors
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Family history of Dementia
Down’s syndrome
Presenilin mutation & abnormal APP gene
Apolipoprotein E 4 allele
12
Q
Vascular dementia vs. AD
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Stepwise progression More depression More functional impairment Less cognitive impairment More MRI findings
13
Q
Pick’s disease
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Frontotemporal dementia
- Personality, Emotional, Executive problems
- Delusions not common
14
Q
Pick’s disease gene
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Tau protein
15
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Pick’s disease histology
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Pick bodies
No tangles
