Week 9 Ab Flashcards
Measure dementia
Mini mental states dimension.
25+ is normal. Interesting measure
Dementia what is it?
Can hide own Easter eggs.
Loss of intellectuality ability (above what is expected noraml at an age. )
Loss memory, higher cortical issue .
Aphasia, apraxia motor coordination problem, adenosia, difficulty recognizing objects.
Not delirium,
Presumed organic factor.
Types of dementia
Vascular dementia,
HIV aids, hunting tons, substance abuse.
MANY DEMENTIAS that affect many disease states.
Alzheimer’s is
Most common form of dementia.
64% of dementia
Two types early and late onset.
Late onset more common.
Fate that awaits more and more people. Aging population
Alzheimer’s prevalence,
Few cases dev, before age of 50. Slightly more common in females.
Inhibiting factor for dev alz is ones level of cognitive functions, higher cognitive function less the likely hold of alz. So education now changing.
Alz course
Deficit onset, time, and s
On a continuum. Progression, small things to severe. 8-10 years.
Increased risk with mz, but not very heritable. 58%
early onset is quite heritable. Autosomal.
Autosonal alz
Early onset.
Chromosome 21 issues, about 1 in 29 cases.
Amyloid precursor gene (APE) effect buildup of amyloid, affects cholesterol transport. Leads to gobs of it in brain.
PlaQues and tangles ensue
Temporal recent memory effected first.
Hippocampus,
PlaQues and tangles ensue
Because of too much phosphorus,
Myth of aluminum,
Twisted fibres, also in down syn, tau protein involved in
Plaques build up of beta amyloid. Complex protein.
Debate if alz neurologically dif from the norm?
Etiology not understood,
Plaques tangl part of everyone’s brain, argument for simple matter of degree. Normal curve perhaps. Age shifts curve.
Apoe, phosphorous,
Only in 50% of alz
Also show insulin igg pathway, lack of insulin in. Brain
4 the type of diabetes ?
Genetic polymorphism, calhm
Mild cognitive deficits and later onset of alz.
Perhaps two distributions, normal brain and alz. Unsure.
Early cognitive deficits predicts later onset of alz.
Tau protein, more likely get alz.
Dsm V added new disorder
Mild neuro cognitive disroder.
Mild cog decline, produce decline modest impairment,
Still independant, not delirium or other mental disorder.
Highly dangerous category. Bill a lot of people. Inaccurate.
Ex. Plaques tangles, no good. Can still behave normally. Even if have seriously.
Culture related alz
Level of cog friending, predicts likely hood of developing alz.
Higher in western cultures. Control age and diet.
Lowest in Chinese,
It is not purely physical.
Alz not a disease, other things happen like
If alz once 130 all have.
Everton brain goes.
Myelination, continues into 50, decreases after 27-45% prefrontal cortex esp vulnerable.
Also cause plaques and tangles and also leads to cognitive decline,
Rowena poem, is an example
Tells of extreme pain, of caregivers for alz
Treatmentt for alz
All crap.
Drug, increase acetylcholine neurotransmitter.
Vitamin e, no effect. Trials, drugs to slow if anything.
Even a vaccine, worked with mice, but causese hydrocephalus.
No dif between drug and placebo, in number entering institutional care. Mental state score, no dif. For drug. Increasing acetylcholine does improve performance, but not in alz.