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| two common neurological diseases causing dementia |
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| vascular disease causing dementia |
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multi-infarcts
mixed
subcortical |
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| early features of cortical dementia |
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| affects memory, intellect, & language |
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| 2 common cortical dimentias |
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| Dementia is (primary/secondary) feature in cortical dementia and dementia is (primary/secondary) feature in subcortica dementia. |
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cortical: primary
subcortical: secondary |
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| (Cortical/Subcortical) dementia is confused with aphasics |
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| early and late features of subcoritcal dementia |
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early: motor impairment (basal ganglia, thalamus, brainstem)
late: memory, intellect, language (cortical structures) |
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| common subcortical dementias |
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| PD is caused by deterioration of what structures |
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| basal ganglia, thalamus, substantia nigra |
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| HD is caused by loss of neurons in what areas |
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| caudate nucleus, putamen, patchy loss in frontal and temporal lobes, occasional loss in cerebellum |
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| second most common type of dementia |
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| vascular (mixed dementia) |
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| most common vascular dementia is multi-infarct; what are the 3 etiologica subgroups? |
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lacunar state (infarcts of arteries to basal ganglia, thalamus, midbrain, and brainstem)
multiple cortical infarcts (thrombotic or embolic)
Binswanger's disease (infarcts in subcortical white matter, usually in individuals with severe hypertension) |
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| MMSE, GMS (Geriatric Mental Status Interview), Arizona Battery for Com. Disorders of Dementia (Bayles & Tomoeda), Functional Linguistic Com. Inventory (Bayles & Tomoeda) |
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| GDS (Global Deterioration Scale), FAST (FUnctional Assessment Staging) |
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Breakfast Club
Memory Wallet (Bourgeois, 1991)
The ABCs of Dementia & Spaced Retrieval
(Bayles & Tomoeda)
Focused Program (Ripich & Wykle)
Successful Com. with AD (Santo Pietro & Ostuni) |
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synaptic endings become twisted and tangle
not unique to DAT (in PD and supranuclear palsy too) |
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neuritic plaques
AKA senile/dendrite plaques |
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Small areas of tissue degeneration, remains of degenerated nerve fibers.
Granular deposits and remnants of neural processes.
Reduce concentration of functioning neurons.
Cortical & subcortical |
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| granulovacular degeneration |
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Definition
small fluid-filled cavities containing granular debris in nerve cells.
Affects pyramidal neurons in hippocampus (where memory is stored).
*if 10% or more are afected, dementia is present
Not unique to DAT |
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| other abnormalites of DAT |
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low acetylcholine (memory role)--neurotransmitter.
Changes in temporoparietal-occipital junctions and inferior tempotal lobes
Frontal/occipital lobes & motor/sensory strips unaffected. |
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| T/F: the three neuropathologies of DAT are visible through MRI or CT |
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| T/F: dementia is insidious, acquired, and persistent |
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True
*but, some cases in HIV progression is rapid. Pseudodementia is reversible (metabolic, nutritional, drugs, infection, toxin, or depression) |
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| Why is it important to recognize dementia in early stages? |
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| To be proactive in preventing social, economic, and vocational consequences of unrecognizeed intellectual deterioration. |
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