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Week 6 Flashcards

1
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What are the 3 ways to divide progressive dementia?

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  1. cortical dementia
  2. subcortical dementia
  3. mixed dementia
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What is the most prevalent dementia in the population?

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AD

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Who is clinical evaluation of dementia usually done by?

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Geriatrician, neurologist, medical practitioner. Clinical neuropsychologist opinions is essential.

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___ diagnosis is important in dementia

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Early

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Information obtained to make a dementia diagnosis includes:

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  • present history
  • past/social history
  • cognitive assessment
  • brain imaging
  • other medical testing
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What is one advantage of early diagnosis in dementing cognitions

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  • provide a diagnostic answer and education for the patient and family
  • provide strategies
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7
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Instead of ‘dementia’, what is usually diagnosed according to the DSM 5?

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neurocognitive disorder

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What is the first diagnostic criteria in major neurocognitive disorder?

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evidence of significant cognitive decline from a previous level of performance

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What is the second diagnostic criteria in major neurocognitive disorder?

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Impairment needs to interfere with independence in everyday activities

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What is the third diagnostic criteria in major neurocognitive disorder?

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Cognitive deficits do not occur exclusively in the context of a delirium

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What is the fourth diagnostic criteria in major neurocognitive disorder?

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Cognitive deficits are not better explained by another rental disorder (e.g., MDD or schizophrenia)

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What is the next step in diagnosing major neurocognitive disorder?

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  1. specify type of dementia
  2. specify with or without behavioural disturbance
  3. specify if it produces milk difficulties with instrumental activities of daily living
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What is cortical dementia?

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Characterised by preferential neuronal loss to cortical regions of the brain

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14
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Involvement of the subcortical regions in dementia is rare, or if it does occur it occurs in:

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late stages of the disease

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What are some risk factors for dementia in early life?

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less education (7%)

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What are some risk factors for dementia in midlife?

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  • hearing loss
  • hypertension
  • alcohol
  • obesity
  • TBI
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What are some risk factors for dementia in later life?

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  • smoking
  • depression
  • social isolation
  • diabetes
  • physical inactivity
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Because of associated risk factors with dementia throughout life, what percentage of dementia is potentially modifiable?

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40%

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What percentage accounts for the risk unknown in dementia onset?

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60%

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20
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Who first described Alzheimers disease?

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Alois Alzheimer

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How do we refer to AD as today?

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an irreversible cortical progressive dementia

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What were the symptoms of the first ever AD patient?

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  • hiding things
  • severe behaviour change
  • suspicious of husband
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There is no single identifiable cause for AD. However:

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  1. incidence increases with age (strongest predictor)

2. twice as many women develop AD

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24
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Average duration of AD is what?

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8-10 years

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25
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What is the mean age of sporadic AD?

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mean age of onset of 80 years

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Familial Alzheimer’s is rare, but early onset AD at:

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More than 50 years of age

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What are the two key features of AD?

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  1. the disease target specific regions of the brain

2. the disease targets structures which then sustain massive cell loss

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Cortical atrophy in AD patients are more evident in:

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frontal, temporal and parietal lobes

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29
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Cortical ___ results in ____ in AD patients:

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thinning

ventricular enlargement

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30
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What are two histological markers of AD in the brain:

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  1. amyloid/senile plaques

2. neurofibrillary tangles (TAU protein)

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Neurofribillary tangles (as associated with AD) appear throughout the brain, but are disproportionately concentrated in which areas?

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temporal parietal areas and hippocampal complex

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Where are senile plaques (as involved in AD) mainly located?

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most likely to concentrate in frontal and temporal regions of the brain and in the hippocampal complex

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What are some signs and symptoms with the onset of AD?

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  • failing recent memory
  • depression and irritability
  • occasionally a seizure
  • one or more language problems
  • confusion when sudden disruption to work or social life occurs
34
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As AD progresses, what happens to various cognitive symptoms?

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  • apraxias become increasingly prominent
  • agnosias become increasingly evident
  • disfluency becomes more apparent in speech
  • in end stage, neuropsychological functions can no longer be measured. Primitive reflexes reemerge.
35
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The progression of AD resembles a ___ of development from ____. With __ being lost first and a progression to a ___ state.

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reversal
infancy to childhood
higher level skills
reflexive

36
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In combination with cognitive changes, there are a range of ___ and ___ changes in AD patients

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behavioural

personality

37
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What are some behavioural and personality changes associated with AD?

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  • clinging to caregiver
  • poor self care
  • depression
  • wandering
  • agitation
  • suspiciousness and paranoia
38
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Frontal lobe dementia typically affects which areas of the brain?

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atrophy in the frontal and temporal lobes

39
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The cerebellum and ___ are unaffected in frontal lobe demential patients.

40
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What are the two subtypes of frontotemporal dementia?

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  1. behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia

2. primary progressive aphasia

41
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What are the 2 different types of PPA?

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  • semantic dementia
  • logopenic aphasia
  • progressive non fluent aphasia
42
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What are one of the first signs of frontal lobe dementia

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silliness, socially disinhibited behaviour, poor judgemnet

43
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What are the middle stages of frontal lobe dementia characterised by?

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blunted affect, progressive apathy, significant cognitive function

44
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What can we expect to see in the late stages of frontal lobe dementia?

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mute and display motor rigidity. Typically ends in terminal vegetative state.

45
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What is the typical disease duration of frontal lobe dementia?

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2-17 years

46
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Frontal lobe dementia affects what percentage of all cases of dementia?

47
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Huntingtons disease is a ____ dementia.

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progressive subcortical

48
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HD affects ___ people in 100, 000

49
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Is there a known treatment or cure for HD?

50
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What gene is HD linked to?

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ITI5 on chromosome 4

51
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Onset of HD symptoms usually when what age?

52
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Survival is how many years following onset of symptoms?

53
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HD is always what in terms of outcome?

54
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Who first described HG?

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George Huntington aged 22 years

55
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HD is a hereditary condition, the only known autosomal dominant condition. What does this mean?

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Affects 50% of children with one parent with the disorder

56
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What is Huntingtons disease also called, Huntingtons Chorea?

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symptoms of involuntary, spasmodic, often tortuous movements that ultimately become disabling.

57
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On average, if one parent has the Huntingtons disease and one doesn’t:

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2 out of 4 children will get the disease

58
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If one has the HD illele:

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they WILL develop HD

59
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Regarding the neuropathology of HD, primary neuropathological change is bilateral deterioration of the ___

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caudate nucleus - deterioration of multiple systems involving white matter structures and areas of the cerebellum

60
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The caudate nucleus is a component of the ____. It is involved in:

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basal ganglia

timing, ordering, sequencing of movement patters

61
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Caudate sends projections to and from the ___ and ___ areas of the brain.

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Limbic

prefrontal

62
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By the end of HD, what percentage of frontal lobe shrinkage volume is there?

63
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HD may also affect other areas of the basal ganglia such as:

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putamen, areas of the striatum and other limbic structures.

64
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What are some aspects of the cognitive profile in HD?

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  • eye movements
  • decreased attention span
  • memory deficits
  • deteriorating speech production
  • impaired visuo-spatial orientation
  • impaired behaviour regulation
  • planning and organisation deficits
65
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What is the second largest type of dementia?

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multi-infarct (vascular) dementia

66
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Multi-infarct dementia results from:

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Multiple infarction of brain tissue, from repeated strokes or blockages to blood vessels.

67
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There are multiple ways that multi infarct dementia differs from AD. What are some of these?

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  • onset is acute and rapid
  • history of risk factors for stroke
  • better memory sometimes than AD
  • reduced verbal production
  • cognitive deficits precede personality changes
  • frontal compromise earlier
68
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Vascular dementia is heterogenous. what does this mean?

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The deficits depend on the location of damage

69
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What is Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease?

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  • extremely rare
  • rapid and progressive
  • brain turns into a spongelike consistency, holes appear
  • present in sheep, cows, humans
70
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In the Fore people of New Guinea (cannibals), how is Creutzfeldt Jakob disease transmitted?

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tradition of eating their dead. Females and children typically eat the brains, injecting infectious diseases

71
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What is sporadic CJD?

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most common, occurs despite no risk factors being apparent

72
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What is variant CJD (mad cow disease)

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infection via tainted meat containing neural tissue

73
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What is familial CJD?

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extremely rare, only found in a handful of families, results in fatal insomnia

74
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What is iatrogenic CJD?

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transmitted via neural transplants, or other medical procedures

75
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Why is CJD hard to identify?

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  • doesn’t produce unusual symptoms
  • slow virus
  • camouflaged by cells
76
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CJD targets the:

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cerebellum as well as the cerebrum

77
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Astrogliosis occurs as a ____ of the CJD not the ___

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result

cause

78
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Mertz identified CJD in sheep and found:

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twisted sticklike fibres in cells using electron microscope. Unique to CJD

79
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What are the hallmarks of CJD?

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  • uncoordinated movements
  • druken stagger
  • speech is slurred and inarticulate
  • victim cannot swallow and may die of starvation
  • visual function alters
80
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Emotional and cognitive symptoms are seen in CJD are:

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  • mood disorders
  • fatigue
  • sleeping difficulties
  • attention and concentration problems

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