Neurocognitive Disorders

Question 1

6 neurocognitive domains impaired in NCD

Answer 1

1. Complex attention
2. Executive function
3. Learning and Memory
4. Language
5. perceptual motor
6. social cognition

Question 2

Occurs after vessel damage

Answer 2

Vascular NCD

Question 3

hallmark symptom of delirium

Answer 3

Diminished clarity of awareness

Disturbance in consciousness accompanied by changes in cognition.

Question 4

clinical features of delirium

Answer 4

Abnormalities in:
arousal
language
perceptions
orientation
mood, sleep, and neurological function

Question 5

etiology of delirium

Answer 5

acetylcholine

reticular formation

Question 6

Neurotransmitters involved in Alzheimer’s disease

Answer 6

Acetylcholine

norepinephrine

Question 7

brain abnormalities in Alzheimer’s

Answer 7

b-amyloid plaques

neurofibrillary tangles

Question 8

often brought on by anticholinergic toxicity from too many anticholinergics

Answer 8

Delirium

Question 9

commonly presents with hallucinations, parkinsonian features, and extrapyramidal signs

Answer 9

Lewy body disease

Question 10

distinguishing features include high incidence of depression and psychosis in addition to choreoathetoid movement disorder

Answer 10

Huntington disease

Question 11

area of the brain first affected in Alzheimer’s

Answer 11

Hippocampus

Question 12

brain has a “swiss cheese” appearance

Answer 12

vascular dementia

Question 13

Inability to recognize names of objects

Answer 13

agnosia

Question 14

inability to think abstractly

Answer 14

impaired executive functioning

Question 15

characterized by emotional lability, dysarthria, and impulsivity

Answer 15

TBI

Question 16

Group of related disorders caused by a transmissible infectious protein

Answer 16

Prion’s Disorder (Creutzfeld-Jakob)

Question 17

Mad cow disease

Answer 17

Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease

Question 18

spongiform encephalopathy

Answer 18

Prion Disease

Question 19

symptoms of Prioin disease

Answer 19

Flu-like symptoms, emotional lability, anxiety, euphoria, depression, delusions, hallucinations, personality changes

Question 20

some causes of amnestic disorders

Answer 20

seizures, head trauma, cerebral tumors, crebrovascular disease, brain surgery, encephalitis HSV, hypoxia