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| mental processing of info that allows us to know our environment and structure responses to it |
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| ability to store, retain and recall info and experiences |
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| capacity for acquiring and using complex systems of communications |
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| ability to perceive and recognize familiar objects |
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| ability to perform motor behavior |
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| ability to plan, organize, sequence or abstract info |
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| process of attaining awareness or understanding of sensory info |
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| selectively concentrating on one aspect of the environment while ignoring other things |
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| mental state involving physiological arousal, expressive behavior and conscious experience |
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| deliberate process for transforming one or more inputs into one or more results |
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| disturbance of consciousness and change in cognition that develops over a short period of time |
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| multiple cognitive deficits that includes impairment in memory |
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| changes in memory, language, perception, praxis. temporal, parietal,and frontal lobes affected. includes AD, lewy body disease, vascular dementia |
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| behavioral and emotional problems with slowing motor function, thalamus, striatum, midbrain and striatofrontal projections involved. includes parkinsons, progressive supranuclear palsy, normal pressure hydrocephalus, huntingtons, creutzfeld-jakob and chronic meningitis |
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| neurodegenerative dementia |
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| CNS degeneration. includes AD, frontotemporal dementia, and lewy body disease |
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| memory impairment in the absence of other significant cognitive impairments |
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| memories held for less than one minute and are available for manipulation of info |
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| memories held for longer than one minute |
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| factual and episodic knowledge |
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| does not involve conscious retrieval. procedural knowledge |
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| loss of impairment of language |
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| disruption in comprehension |
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| inability to repeat a spoken phrase |
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| all aspects of language affected |
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| inability to recognize a specific sensory stimuli despite preserved sensory function, most resposible lesions in occipitotemporal region |
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| localized to right parietal lobe |
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| inability to perform learned motor tasts despite sufficient memory function to understand the command. lesion in dominant inferior parietal lobe |
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| loss of impairment of memory and the mechanisms for recall |
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| can't remember events before trauma |
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| mild form of right parietal lobe lesions where patient cannot attend to stimuli on contralateral side with bilateral stimuli |
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| right parietal lesion, patient doesnt attend to one half of body of visual field |
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| distinguished from dementia due to cognitive impairment before age 18 |
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| infectios, metabolic disease, nutritional deficiency, or psych issues |
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| serum electrolytes, urinalysis, CBC with differential, folate and B12, liver, renal, thyroid, serology for syphilis and other chronic infections, spinal tap, electroencephalogram, neuroimaging (MRI and CT), neuropsychological testing |
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| emphasizes memory and language function |
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| evaluates visuospatial processing |
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| name as many animals as you can in 60 sec |
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| progressive disease that destroys neurons, most common form of dementia, gradual memory loss and difficulties learning, lack of reasoning and judgment, decline in ADLs, changes in behavior. c1,14,21,19 and ApoE gene on c19. amyloid plaques between axons and tau protein tangles. decrease in ACh. tx: tacrine, donepezil, rivastigmine, galantimine, memantine |
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| diffuse lewy body disease |
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| may overlap with AD and parkinsons, sensitivity to antipsychotic meds, visual hallucinations and parkinsons symptoms, histologically in brainstem and limbic system |
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| brain damage secondary to strokes or micro infarcts, focal deficits, hx of hypertension |
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| picks disease, frontal and temporal lobe atrophy, inappropriate social behavior, 50yo onset, familial hx of dementia with Tau protein |
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| impacting executive function more than language or spatial processing, lewy bodies in brainstem, bradykinesia and depression |
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| normal pressure hydrocephalus |
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| rarely causes dementia, obstruction of CSF flow, triad of dementia, gait disturbance, urinary incontinence. tx shunt |
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| prion proteins, myoclonus with abnormal EEG, sponiform enccephalopathy, rapidly progressive, 1 yr prognosis |
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| end product of untreated wernicke's encephalopathy caused by thiamine deficiency, chronic alcoholism |
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| loss of memory for names and dates, verbal fluency stays same, vocabulary increases |
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| dramatic memory disturbance that affects people over 50yo, usually one episode, both antero and retrograde amnesia for several hours, caused by vascular insufficiency to midbrain structures like hippocampus |
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| inconsistent loss of remote memory with indifference to their deficits. "who am i?" |
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| dementia syndrome of depression, treatable with antidepressants |
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| CAG trinucleotide repeats, 30-50yo onset, chorea and atrophy of cerebral cortex and caudate |
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| reversible, mostly caused by head trauma |
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| rapid onset disorganized mental processes, shifted attention and awareness, caused by medical conditions, substance abuse, withdrawal eetc |
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