Common Mental Disorders — Flashcards

Flashcard 41: Dementia initially presents with worse _____-term memory loss

Answer: short

Flashcard 42: All patients with cognitive impairment must be evaluated for _____, as these are treatable and reversible conditions

Answer: hypothyroidism and depression

Flashcard 43: The first sign of dementia is often _____

Answer: memory impairment

Flashcard 44: Dementia is often not a single clinical entity, but _____.

Answer: a combination (e.g. Alzheimer's with vascular dementia

Extra: Mixed dementia is a condition where changes representing more than one type of dementia occur simultaneously in the brain. The most common combination is Alzheimer's disease with vascular dementia, but other combinations (like AD with Lewy body dementia) also occur.

Flashcard 45: The management of choice for somatisation (somatic symptom disorder) is _____.

Answer: CBT

Flashcard 46: Somatisation often leads to _____ symptoms as well as somatic symptoms

Answer: cognitive

Flashcard 47: A diagnosis of somatisation involves a set of unexplained physical symptoms for at least _____

Answer: 6 months

Flashcard 48: The location, type and severity of symptoms in somatisation _____ change over time typically

Answer: do

Flashcard 49: Management of somatisation is aimed at treating _____ symptoms

Answer: physical

Flashcard 50: What is the mechanism of action for Z-drugs? _____

Answer: GABA agonist