Neurocognitive Disorders Flashcards
Name the 6 Neurological Domains
- Complex attention
- Executive Functioning
- Learning and Memory
- Language
- Perceptual-Motor
- Social cognition
Name some of the characteristics of delirium
- Disturbances of Consciousness (attention/awareness)
- Change in cognition, dev of perceptual disturbance
- Fluctuations in symptoms
- Quick onset
- Caused by physiological process (e.g. medication)
Name some symptoms of Neurocogntive Disorder
- Evidence of significant decline in one or more cognitive domains compared to previous level.
- Interferes with everyday activities
- Does not occur exclusively with delirium
- Not better accounted for by another MD
The hippocampus plays an important part in ____, in particular _____
memory function, new learning
- Bilateral hippocampus damage, intact amygdala = Unable to learn ___ but, ___ intact
- Bilateral amygdala, intact hippocampi = unable to ____, but _____ intact
- Learn facts, conditioning
2. Condition, learning facts
Give examples of declarative memory
Events, facts
Give some examples of implicit memory
skills, priming, conditioning, non associative learning (Habituation, sensitisation)
Dementia, delirium, depression and other amnesiac disorders display deficits in _____
Memory
Name some symptoms of dementia
Amnesia, apraxia, aphasia, agnosia, loss of previous functioning, abnormal executive functioning, progressive.
Aphasia
Difficulties producing or understanding speech
Apraxia
Inability to follow instructions, perform tasks
Agnosia
Able to perceive parts but not able to put together meaningfully
The most common type of neurocognitive disorder is ____
Alzhiemers
_____ disorders exclude dementia and delirium, but and impariment is due to medical conditions or substances
Amnesiac
Patients with NCD are particularly sensitive to _____
Medication side effects
