Chapter 14 - Late life and Neurocognitive disorders

Question 1

interests shift from seeking new social interactions to cultivating a few social relationships that matter to us

Answer 1

social selectivity

Question 2

prescribing of multiple drugs to a person

Answer 2

polypharmacy

Question 3

consequences of being a certain chronological age

Answer 3

age effects

Question 4

consequences of growing up during a particular time period with unique challenges and opportunities

Answer 4

cohort effects

Question 5

confounds that arise because events at a particular point in time can have a specific effect on a variable that is being studied

Answer 5

time of measurement effects

Question 6

when people are no longer available for follow up due to death

Answer 6

selective mortality

Question 7

congestive heart failure

Answer 7

angina

Question 8

inner ear control of one’s sense of balance

Answer 8

vestibular system

Question 9

descriptive term for the deterioration of cognitive abilities to the point that functioning becomes impaired

Answer 9

dementia

Question 10

confusion with respect to time, place or identity

Answer 10

disorientation

Question 11

brain tissue irreversibly deteriorates, death within 12 years

Answer 11

Alzheimer’s disease

Question 12

small, round, beta-amyloid protein deposits outside neurons

Answer 12

plaques

Question 13

twisted protein filaments composed largely of the protein tau in the axons of neurons

Answer 13

neurofibrillary tangles

Question 14

lifestyle variables of alzheimer’s

Answer 14

smoking
single
depressed
low social support

Question 15

the idea that some people may be able to compensate for the disease by using alternative brain networks or cognitive strategies such that cognitive symptoms are less pronounced

Answer 15

cognitive reserve

Question 16

caused by a loss of neurons in frontal and temporal regions of the brain
impairment in empathy, executive function, inhibition, compulsion, hyperorality and apathy

Answer 16

frontotemporal dementia

Question 17

cognitive capacity to plan and organize

Answer 17

executive function

Question 18

tendencies to put nonfood objects in the mouth

Answer 18

hyperorality

Question 19

characterized by the presence of spherical inclusions within neurons

Answer 19

pick’s disease

Question 20

protein filaments that contribute to the neurofibrillary tangles observed in Alzheimer’s disease

Answer 20

tau

Question 21

dementia is a consequence of cerebrovascular disease

Answer 21

vascular demenia

Question 22

include prominent visual hallucinations and fluctuating cognitive symptoms

Answer 22

Dementia w/ Lewy bodies

Question 23

drugs that interfere wit hthe breakdown of acetylcholine

Answer 23

cholinesterase inhibitors

Question 24

being off track or deviating from the usual state
extreme trouble focusing attention
profound disturbances in the sleep/wake cycle

Answer 24

delirium

Question 25

beliefs contrary to reality

Answer 25

delusions