NURS 663 STUDY EXAM 2026 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔5, 10 - ✔✔For Memantine, start with ____mg daily and increase to _____mg twice
daily
✔✔vascular, mixed - ✔✔Memantine can also manage ____________ dementia and
__________ dementia
✔✔Mg2+ - ✔✔Memantine interacts with _____ binding site.
✔✔cortical and subcortical - ✔✔Vascular dementia effects these parts of the brain
✔✔Vascular - ✔✔What is the 2nd most common form of dementia? 25%-30% of
dementias
✔✔risk - ✔✔Treatment of vascular dementia: Future cerebrovascular incidents can be
controlled such as _______ factors but damage caused by infarcts can't be reversed.
✔✔ADLs, behavioral, neuro - ✔✔Alzheimer's disease is a neurodegenerative disease
that deteriorates the memory, cognition, ________, _______________ and ________
disturb
✔✔Alzheimer's disease - ✔✔Most common form of dementia in old age
✔✔not - ✔✔AD is _______ a part of normal aging but the risk of developing AD
increases with age.
✔✔memantine - ✔✔Treatment of Alzheimer's disease:
Cholinesterase inhibitors and ________________.
✔✔cortical - ✔✔Lewy body dementia is when there is a deposition of Lewy Bodies in
____________ and subcortical
, ✔✔Lewy body - ✔✔This dementia has protein deposits inside of neurons
✔✔Lewy body dementia - ✔✔Has features of parkinsons and alzheimers
✔✔Sleep walking, violent sleep behavior - ✔✔Lewy body dementia can cause
✔✔rapid - ✔✔Lewy body's progression is?
✔✔Lewy body, visual - ✔✔__________________dementia has Recurrent, well formed
__________ hallucinations
✔✔avoid, lewy body - ✔✔_____________ atypical antipsychotics in ____________
______________ dementia
✔✔Lewy body dementia - ✔✔This dementia may respond even better than AD to
cholinesterase inhibitors such as Aricept, Galantamine, and Exelon
✔✔Alcohol induced persisting - ✔✔Korsakoff's syndrome is also called ____________
______________ ________________ dementia
✔✔malnutrition, brain, alcohol - ✔✔(Wernickes) Korsakoff's syndrome: Usually results
from _______________ and _________ damage from ___________.
✔✔thiamine, ischemia - ✔✔Chronic alcoholism -> ___________ deficiency -> brain
tissue ____________ + cell death -> Wernickes -> Korsakoff's
✔✔confusion, ataxia - ✔✔Wernickes: acute ____________, ophthalmoplegia (diff
seeing), and _________.
✔✔Amnesia, Confabulation - ✔✔Korsakoff's= ______________, _______________
(inventing false memories/made up stories), psychosis
✔✔thiamine, blood, support - ✔✔Treatment (Wernickes) Korsakoff's syndrome: Can be
partially reversed if caught early & treated with high doses of _____________.
Abstinence is essential to stop dementia progression. Period __________ tests.
__________ groups
✔✔25-30 - ✔✔MMSE questionably significant number range
✔✔20-25 - ✔✔MMSE mild cognitive impairment
✔✔0-10 - ✔✔MMSE severe cognitive impairment
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔5, 10 - ✔✔For Memantine, start with ____mg daily and increase to _____mg twice
daily
✔✔vascular, mixed - ✔✔Memantine can also manage ____________ dementia and
__________ dementia
✔✔Mg2+ - ✔✔Memantine interacts with _____ binding site.
✔✔cortical and subcortical - ✔✔Vascular dementia effects these parts of the brain
✔✔Vascular - ✔✔What is the 2nd most common form of dementia? 25%-30% of
dementias
✔✔risk - ✔✔Treatment of vascular dementia: Future cerebrovascular incidents can be
controlled such as _______ factors but damage caused by infarcts can't be reversed.
✔✔ADLs, behavioral, neuro - ✔✔Alzheimer's disease is a neurodegenerative disease
that deteriorates the memory, cognition, ________, _______________ and ________
disturb
✔✔Alzheimer's disease - ✔✔Most common form of dementia in old age
✔✔not - ✔✔AD is _______ a part of normal aging but the risk of developing AD
increases with age.
✔✔memantine - ✔✔Treatment of Alzheimer's disease:
Cholinesterase inhibitors and ________________.
✔✔cortical - ✔✔Lewy body dementia is when there is a deposition of Lewy Bodies in
____________ and subcortical
, ✔✔Lewy body - ✔✔This dementia has protein deposits inside of neurons
✔✔Lewy body dementia - ✔✔Has features of parkinsons and alzheimers
✔✔Sleep walking, violent sleep behavior - ✔✔Lewy body dementia can cause
✔✔rapid - ✔✔Lewy body's progression is?
✔✔Lewy body, visual - ✔✔__________________dementia has Recurrent, well formed
__________ hallucinations
✔✔avoid, lewy body - ✔✔_____________ atypical antipsychotics in ____________
______________ dementia
✔✔Lewy body dementia - ✔✔This dementia may respond even better than AD to
cholinesterase inhibitors such as Aricept, Galantamine, and Exelon
✔✔Alcohol induced persisting - ✔✔Korsakoff's syndrome is also called ____________
______________ ________________ dementia
✔✔malnutrition, brain, alcohol - ✔✔(Wernickes) Korsakoff's syndrome: Usually results
from _______________ and _________ damage from ___________.
✔✔thiamine, ischemia - ✔✔Chronic alcoholism -> ___________ deficiency -> brain
tissue ____________ + cell death -> Wernickes -> Korsakoff's
✔✔confusion, ataxia - ✔✔Wernickes: acute ____________, ophthalmoplegia (diff
seeing), and _________.
✔✔Amnesia, Confabulation - ✔✔Korsakoff's= ______________, _______________
(inventing false memories/made up stories), psychosis
✔✔thiamine, blood, support - ✔✔Treatment (Wernickes) Korsakoff's syndrome: Can be
partially reversed if caught early & treated with high doses of _____________.
Abstinence is essential to stop dementia progression. Period __________ tests.
__________ groups
✔✔25-30 - ✔✔MMSE questionably significant number range
✔✔20-25 - ✔✔MMSE mild cognitive impairment
✔✔0-10 - ✔✔MMSE severe cognitive impairment
