Exam 14: Neurocognitive Disorders

Early-onset Alzheimer's disease differs from late-onset in that ________

Procedural memory often is intact in patients with amnestic disorder. This means ________

In older people, the onset of cognitive deficits is typically________.

___________is the second most common neurodegenerative disease.

The median time to death for a person diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease is ________ years from the time of first clinical contact.

Caregivers of patients with Alzheimer's disease ________

What are the factors that have an impact on the outcome for children with traumatic brain injury?

What is affected in amnestic disorder?

Consistent with its established role in memory, neurons in the ________ suffer much damage in Alzheimer's disease.

After being hit on the head, Bob experienced some retrograde amnesia. Those who were there knew this because he ________

Which type of athlete has the greatest risk of experiencing brain damage because of a concussion?

Delirium ________

One important difference between early-onset Alzheimer's disease and late-onset Alzheimer's disease is that in early-onset Alzheimer's ________

Which of the following is not one of the brain abnormalities characteristic of Alzheimer's disease first identified by Alois Alzheimer?

You are convinced that your grandmother has Alzheimer's. How can your doctor confirm your diagnosis?

More than 20 new loci on the genome have been implicated in Alzheimer's disease, many of which seem to be involved in ________

How does vascular dementia differ from Alzheimer's disease?

The damage that might be caused to the brain by riding a violently fast roller coaster is consistent with ________

Someone with focal brain damage in his or her left parietal lobe will likely have ________

A bullet is most likely to cause ________