Week 4

Question 1

What are some of the brain changes involved with AD?

Answer 1

Neurofibrillary tangles and senile plaques, general atrophy

Question 2

What are some of the symptoms of AD

Answer 2

Attention - reduced selective and divided, sustained preserved
Intelligence - decrease IQ
Memory - decreased
Language - naming errors
Perception - agnosia, dressing apraxia
Apraxis - ideomotor
EF - impairment of judgement, abstract reasoning, and problem solving

Question 3

Describe Frontotemporal dementia

Answer 3

decline in social conduct, emotional blunting, loss of insight, hygiene neglect, mental inflexibility, memory, praxis and perception preserved,

Question 4

Describe semantic dementia

Answer 4

Also called fluent aphasia, progressive anomia, reduced verbal fluency, anomia, syntax and grammar ok,

Question 5

Describe PD

Answer 5

Cognitive deficits, apraxia, verbal fluency impaired,

Question 6

Describe Mild Cognitive impairment

Answer 6

Generally intact cognition, subjective memory complaints, intact ADL’s, failure to fulfill the criteria for dementia, can convert to AD (i.e. prodromal AD)

Question 7

Describe MS

Answer 7

inflammatory demyelinating disorder of CNS white matter, impaired attention, intelligence, memory, and EF, aphasia rare, praxis difficult to assess,