Exam 14: Neurocognitive Disorders

People with dementia often show difficulty with abstract thinking.Which of the following questions to a person with dementia would help to demonstrate this difficulty?

You are reading a medical chart in which a patient is referred to as displaying chorea.If you met this patient,you might expect a lot of

You are asked to assist in the design of a living environment that would be most beneficial for patients with dementia.Which of the following would be particularly helpful?

Franklin has Huntington's disease,and on that basis,we can be virtually certain that

____________ is a confusional state that develops over a short period of time and is often associated with agitation and hyperactivity.

What is genetic linkage analysis?

Exposure to what type of trauma as an adult puts an individual at greater risk of developing Alzheimer's disease?

At the insistence of family members,you take your elderly grandfather to a general practice physician,who refers him to a neurologist.When you ask for a description of neurologists,the general practitioner tells you they are

The cognitive and motor deficits associated with Huntington's disease are due to neuronal degeneration in the

A patient's medical chart indicates that her physician recommended a trial of donepezil (Aricept).What is the likely diagnosis?

Pseudodementia refers to a condition in which

Chorea is a symptom of

What is an infarct?

What are some of the features that distinguish delirium from dementia?

While hospitalized,Jack begins to show signs of delirium.Which of the following is a possible clue that leads his physician to suspect that Jack is experiencing delirium?

A television report described a case of a person who exhibited a disturbance in consciousness,memory deficits,and disorientation to time and place.If these symptoms developed within 24 hours,you believe the diagnosis is

What are the typical symptoms that mark a diagnosis of Parkinson's disease?

How do retrograde and anterograde amnesia differ?

Although Marsha is unable to move the right side of her body,the other side of her body is mobile.What is the most likely cause of this problem?

Which of the following describes the amyloid plaques found in Alzheimer's disease?