Exam 14: Neurocognitive Disorders and Disorders Related to Aging

Which of the following is a general term used to describe a severe neurocognitive disorder in which there is general deterioration of mental functioning?

Ed, a chronic alcoholic, has not had a drink in over 24 hours. Ed feels as though there are cockroaches crawling all over him. He is experiencing terrifying hallucinations as well. It is possible Ed is experiencing _______.

The early stages of AD are marked by limited memory problems and subtle personality changes.

________ in the brain appears to play a key role in the development of AD.

Death usually occurs within ______ years of the onset of Huntington's disease.

The term dementia is used as a diagnostic label in the DSM-5 for describing cognitive impairments in older adults.

The form of dementia called general paresis resulted from a form of the later stages of which sexually transmitted disease?

______ involves a profound deterioration in mental functioning, characterized by gross memory impairment and cognitive deficits such as aphasia, apraxia, or Agnosia, and deficits in executive functioning.

Neurocognitive disorder due to Lewy body disease accounts for about _____of dementias in older adults.

Caregivers of persons with Alzheimer's disease tend to experience more health-related problems and higher levels of stress hormones than do noncaregivers.

Frontotemporal neurocognitive disorder disease accounts for about ______ percent of dementias.

Which of the following cognitive symptoms is someone with amnesia most likely to experience?

Inability or difficulty forming or storing new memories is known as ______ amnesia.

The human form of mad-cow disease, a fatal illness spread by eating infected beef, is a variant of _______.

The substantia nigra is an area of the brain that helps regulate ______.

Korsakoff's syndrome involves irreversible memory loss due to brain damage resulting from deficiency of vitamin B1.

Confusion, meaningless mumbling, and wild hallucinations are some of the major and minor features of delirium in which of the following domains?

The term ______ means straying from the line, or the norm, in cognition, perception, and behavior.

Miles is suffering from Korsakoff's syndrome. Which memory deficit is most likely?

A disturbance of sensory perception, usually affecting visual recognition, is known as ______.