Unit 4 pgs 241-254

Question 1

Mild Cognitive Impairment

Answer 1

A mild form of memory dysfunction

Question 2

Dementia

Answer 2

Includes a variety of conditions associated with damage of brain tissue

Question 3

Reversible dementias

Answer 3

Caused by drug toxicity, hormonal or nutritional disorders, tumors and trauma to the brain

Question 4

Irreversible dementias

Answer 4

no discernible environmental cause and can not as of this date becured

Question 5

Pick’s disease

Answer 5

Rare, frontal and temporal lobes of the brain atrophy. Most likely to occur in younger persons age of onset 40-50, resulting n significant personality change

Question 6

Creutzfeldts-Jacob and Kuru diseases

Answer 6

traced to a slow acting virus, can strike at any age associated with Mad cow disease, tainted beef in Great Britain and Europe

Question 7

Huntington’s disease

Answer 7

Genetically transmitted appears in people in their 30’s & 40’s. results in more neuromuscular changes than do other dementias

Question 8

Vascular demntia

Answer 8

Second most common form of irreversible dementia. Blood vessels leading to the brain become occluded which results in several areas of the brain show infarct or small strokes.