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Unit 2: Neurodegenerative Diseases Flashcards

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L1: Delirium and/or Dementia? Chronic

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Dementia

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L1: Delirium and/or Dementia? Commonly reversible

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Delirium

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L1: Delirium and/or Dementia? Fluctuations in consciousness

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Delirium

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L1: Delirium and/or Dementia? Impaired attention

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Delirium

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L1: Delirium and/or Dementia? Impaired memory

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Both

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L1: Delirium and/or Dementia? Incoherent speech/aphasia

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Both

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L1: Delirium and/or Dementia? Persistent impairment in higher intellectual functions

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Dementia

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L1: Delirium and/or Dementia? Typically toxic or metabolic causes

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Delirium

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L1: Which neurodegenerative disease? Can result from mutations in ApoE4, presenilin-1, presenilin-2, or Amyloid Precursor Protein (APP)

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Alzheimer’s Disease

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L1: Which neurodegenerative disease? Formerly known as Pick’s Disease

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Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD)

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L1: Which neurodegenerative disease? Most common cause of dementia in older people

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Alzheimer’s Disease

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L1: Which neurodegenerative disease? Neuritic plaques and neurofibrillary tangles in the cortex and hippocampus; cerebral atrophy

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Alzheimer’s Disease

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L1:Delirium and/or Dementia? Acute

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Delirium

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L2: What are the characteristic neuropathological features in Alzheimer’s Disease?

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Neuritic plaques and neurofibrillary tangles

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L2: What are the characteristic neuropathological features in Parkinson Disease?

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Lewy Bodies

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L2: What brain site is primarily involved in Alzheimer’s Disease?

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Cortex and hippocampus

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L2: What brain site is primarily involved in Huntington Disease?

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Caudate nucleus

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L2: What brain site is primarily involved in Parkinson Disease?

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Substantia nigra

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L2: What drug is used to antagonize the NMDA receptor in treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease?

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L2: What neurotransmitter is deficent in Alzheimer’s Disease?

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Acetylcholine

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L2: What neurotransmitter is deficient in Parkinson Disease?

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L2: Which neurodegenerative disease? Abnormal tau protein metabolism

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Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD)

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L2: Which neurodegenerative disease? Autosomal dominant inheritance of expanded CAG repeat

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Huntington Disease

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L2: Which neurodegenerative disease? Caudate atrophy

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Huntington Disease

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L2: Which neurodegenerative disease? Cortical dementia with behavioral changes more pronounced than memory loss

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Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD)

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L2: Which neurodegenerative disease? Dementia and chorea, personality or behavioral changes also possible

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Huntington Disease

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L2: Which neurodegenerative disease? Dementia, gait disorder, and urinary incontinence; enlarged ventricles; periventricular white matter primarily affected

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Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus

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L2: Which neurodegenerative disease? Dementia, parkonsonism, visual hallucinations, fluctuating confusion

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Lewy Body Disease

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L2: Which neurodegenerative disease? Disinhibition, atrophy, and exectutive dysfunction; frequently misdiagnosed as a psychiatric disease

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Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD)

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L2: Which neurodegenerative disease? Disturbances in synuclein

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Parkinson Disease

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L2: Which neurodegenerative disease? Lewy Bodies in substantia nigra

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Parkinson Disease

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L2: Which neurodegenerative disease? Loss of cholinergic cells in the basal forebrain

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Alzheimer’s Disease

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L2: Which neurodegenerative disease? Rapidly progressive fatal dementia, presenting with confusion, psychotic features, and myoclonus

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Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease

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L2: Which neurodegenerative disease? Relative dopamine deficiency

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Parkinson Disease

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L2: Which neurodegenerative disease? Repeated strokes that erode cognitive function and result in dementia

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Multi-infarct Dementia

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L2: Which neurodegenerative disease? Resting tremor, bradykinesia, rigidity, postural instability

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Parkinson Disease

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L2: Which neurodegenerative disease? Vascular dementia in which longstanding hypertension leads to ischemia and lacunar infarction

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Binswanger Disease

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L3: What acetylcholinesterase inhibitors are often used in treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease? (3)

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Rivastigmine, donepezil, galantamone

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L3: What is the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s Disease?

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Deposition of amyloid

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L3: What is the pathogenesis of Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD)?

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Abnormal tau protein metabolism

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L3: What is the pathogenesis of Parkinson Disease?

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Disturbances in synuclein

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L3: What three categories of drugs may be used in treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease?

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NMDA-antagonist, acetylcholinesterase inhibitors, atypical antipsychotics

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