and answers
Which of the following is not a subtype of major or mild neurocognitive disorders?
A. Frontotemporal dementia
B. Dementia due to traumatic brain injury
C. Dementia with Lewy bodies
D. Dementia due to septicemia
E. Dementia due to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease - answers D.
Which are of the brain is responsible for reading?
A. frontal lobe
B. temporal lobe
C. parietal lobe
D. cerebellum - answers C
Which are of the brain is responsible for reasoning and judgement?
A. frontal lobe
B. temporal lobe
C. parietal lobe
D. cerebellum - answers A.
Which are of the brain is responsible for distinguishing right from left?
A. frontal lobe
B. temporal lobe
C. parietal lobe
D. cerebellum - answers C.
Which area of the brain is responsible for understanding spacial relationships?
A. frontal lobe
B. temporal lobe
C. parietal lobe
D. cerebellum - answers C.
Which area of the brain is responsible for understanding language?
A. frontal lobe
, B. temporal lobe
C. parietal lobe
D. cerebellum - answers B.
Which areas of the brain are responsible for memory? (select all that apply)
A. frontal lobe
B. temporal lobe
C. parietal lobe
D. cerebellum
E. occipital
F. brain stem - answers A. and B.
Is delirium of acute or insidious onset? - answers acute
Which setting is most common for delirium?
A. hospital
B. assisted living
C. hospice care - answers A.
Which of the following is not a risk factor for delirium?
A. systemic infection
B. bone fracture
C. recent recovery from coma
D. recent surgery - answers C.
True or false. Almost half of all patients with delirium will die within the one year. -
answers True
True or false. History, PE and lab findings will not demonstrate delirium as a direct
physiological consequence of another medical condition. - answers False, these WILL
show a direct relationship
Which of the following is NOT a specifier for delirium?
A. substance intoxication delirium
B. medication-abuse delirium
C. medication-induced delirium
D. delirium due to another medical condition - answers B.
(medication-induced delirium is from SE of a med when taken AS PRESCRIBED)
What are the specifiers for sundowners?
A. acute and hypoactive