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Question 1

Name 2 characteristics of VaD.

Answer 1

• VaD is a dementia SYNDROME

- With primarily SUBCORTICAL involvement

Question 2

What is Binwanger’s disease (or subcortical arteriosclerosis/small vessel disease)?

Answer 2

It differs from other vascular conditions because the onset is slow and insidious, and it involves white matter lesions.

Question 3

What is telescoping?

Answer 3

The pattern that, once they start, women tend to progress more rapidly to addiction to drugs.

Question 4

Which 2 types of infectious processes are there?

Answer 4

1. Encephalitis = infection within the brain parenchyma (commonly leads to neuropsychological disabilities)
2. Meningitis = infection and/or inflammation of the meninges (commonly leads to compromised cerebral blood flow and dangerous evaluations of cerebral edema)

Question 5

Which ‘disease’ may occur after a HIV infection?

Answer 5

HIV-associated encephalopathy/dementia (HAD)

Question 6

Which brain tissue is in particular more dependent upon oxygen than other tissues? (3x)

Why?

Answer 6

Hippocampus
Basal ganglia
Cerebral cortex

Due to their distal/remote location in vascular distribution

Question 7

What is this?

A combination of rotational and translational accelaration.

Answer 7

Angular acceleration

Question 8

How is PSP also called?

And which 4 areas are impaired?

Answer 8

Steele-Richardson-Olzewski syndrome (SRO)

Basal ganglia, brainstem, cerebellum, frontal cortex

Question 9

How is CJD also called?

And in cattle?

Answer 9

Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy (TSE)

In cattle (vee): Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE)

Question 10

Epilepsy

How is a grand mall seizure also called?

And a nonepileptic seizure? (2x)

Answer 10

Grand mall: convulsive seizure

Nonepileptic: pseudo seizure or paroxysmal spell

Question 11

PD

How is bradykinesia also called?

And chorea?

Answer 11

Bradykinesia = akinesia

Chorea = dyskinesia