Dementia Flashcards
The 7 most common causes of Dementia :
- Alzheimer’s disease
- Vascular dementia
- Frontotemporal (Pick’s disease)
- Lewy bodies dementia
- Huntington’s disease
- Normal pressure hydrocephalus
- Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
What are the clues of Alzheimer’s disease
🔸Clinical signs & symptoms
🧠- Dementia: Gradual
🫨- aphasia / apraxia / agnosia
- Decrease executive function
🧑🦯- 🚫
What are the clues of Alzheimer’s disease
🔸imagings
Widespread cortical atrophy
🧠 especially hippocampus
Narrowing of gyri
Widening of Sulci
What syndrome associated with early-onset Al-zheimer disease ?
Down syndrome
Dementia & Imaging or Hx of stroke
Vascular dementia
What are the clues of Vascular dementia
🔸Imaging
Multiple cortical / subcortical infarcts
Dementia «acute» + personality changes (impulsive/disinhibition)
Frontotemporal dementia
What are the clues of frontotemporal dementia
🔸imaging
Frontal or Temporal lobe degeneration
What are the clues of Normal pressure hydrocephalus
🔸Clinical signs & symptoms
🧠 Dementia (wacky)
🧑🦯 shuffling gait (wobbly)
🚽 urinary incontinence (wet)
What are the clues of NPH
🔸Imaging
Ventriculomegaly
Dementia «fluctuating cognition»
Parkinsonism
Visual hallucination 🪅
Dementia with Lewy body
Dementia & Choreoathetosis
Familial (AD)
Huntington’s disease
Vitamin […] deficiency mimic dementia
B12
Most likely cause of dementia :
Change in behavior, aggressive, memory loss
Frontotemporal (Pick’s disease)
Most likely cause of dementia :
Parkinsonism + Visual hallucinations
Lewy body dementia
