Unit 11 - Other Dementias

Question 1

Disinhibtion

Answer 1

a lack of restraint manifested in disregard to social conventions. (Inability to control one’s behaviours or ‘hold back’)

Question 2

Aphasia

Answer 2

significantly impaired language or speech. Usually happens post stroke or with fronto-temporal dementia

Question 3

Hallucinations

Answer 3

a false sensory experience

Question 4

Lewy Bodies

Answer 4

an abnormal amount of protein bundled inside neuron cells

Question 5

Chorea

Answer 5

an abnormal involuntary movement disorder (usually involving larger parts of the body (Huntingtons Disease) than the tremors seen in Parkinson’s disease/dementia

Question 6

How dementia with Lewy Bodies and Parkinson’s Disease Dementia differ

Answer 6

Dementia with Lewy Bodies has more cognitive symptoms in the early stages where Parkinson’s dementia/disease has more physical and movement symptoms in early stages

Question 7

How are Parkinson’s disease dementia and Huntington’s Disease are alike and how they are different

Answer 7

Parkinson’s disease has an onset of >65 years where Huntington’s is gene dominant and is always early onset at age 30-50 years. They are similar in the way that they both have uncontrollable movement symptoms, declines in speech and executive function/cognition and eventually memory.