Neurocognitive Disorders

Question 1

Delirium

Answer 1

Disturbance in attention and awareness

• Reduced ability to direct, focus, sustain, or shift attention
• reduced orientation to the environment

Develops over short period of time

Can include additional disturbances to cognition

Question 2

Alzheimer’s Disease

Answer 2

Decline in memory and learning and at least one other cognitive domain

Steadily progressive, gradual decline in cognition, without extended plateaus

No evidence of mixed etiology

Question 3

Frontotemporal Neurocognitive Disorder

Answer 3

Behavioral Variant:

• behavioral disinhibition
• apathy or inertia
• loss of sympathy or empathy
• perseveration, stereotyped or compulsive/ritualistic behavior
• hyperorality and dietary changes
• prominent decline in social cognition and/or executive abilities

Language Variant:
- prominent decline in language ability, in the form of speech production, word finding, object naming, grammar, or word comprehension