CETP – Dementia Exam Questions and Correct Answers

CETP – Dementia Exam Questions and Correct Answers An acquired neurological syndrome associated with persistent or progressive deterioration in intellectual functions, judgement, thinking, visuospatial skills, constructional abilities, language, memory, emotions, and behaviour (personality) - ANSWER Dementia Mild cognitive impairment - ANSWER -A mild form of dementia -Limited to a specific domain, e.g., only memory or only language is impaired T/F: Dementia is always progressive - ANSWER F -it is reversible in about 20% of cases -Reversible dementia is a temporary intellectual impairment due to such treatable conditions as metabolic disturbances, nutritional deficiencies, chronic renal failure, persistent anemia, drug toxicity, and lung and heart disease The most common type of dementia - ANSWER Alzheimer's dementia (accounts for 60-70% of all irreversible dementias) Risk factors for Alzheimer's - ANSWER -Being a woman -Family history of down syndrome -Prior brain injury -Low level of education -Genetic inheritance (specifically early-onset AD) Neuropathology of AD - ANSWER -Neurofibrillary tangles: Neurofibrils are filamentous structures in nerve cells, dendrites, and axons; these structures are thickened, twisted, and tangled, and may form unusual loops and triangles -Neuritic plaques: Also known as senile plaques, these are minute areas of cortical and sub-cortical tissue degeneration. The cerebral cortex and hippocampus (concerned w/ memory) are especially vulnerable to plaques, resulting in destroyed cortical and subcortical synaptic connections.