Alzheimer's disease — Flashcards

Flashcard 1: What group of drugs is the first line treatment for schizophrenia? _____

Answer: Atypical antipsychotics (e.g. risperidone)

Flashcard 2: Which psychiatric disorder, delirium or dementia, is characterized by memory deficits, apraxia, aphasia, agnosia, behavioral/personality changes, and impaired judgment? _____

Answer: Dementia

Flashcard 3: Is dementia typically reversible or irreversible? _____

Answer: Irreversible

Flashcard 4: Which psychiatric disorder, delirium or dementia, is characterized by disorganized thinking, visual hallucinations, disturbances in sleep wake cycle, cognitive dysfunction, and agitation? _____

Answer: Delirium

Flashcard 5: In addition to schizophrenia, typical antipsychotics are used to treat _____ in many conditions (e.g. bipolar disorder, delirium)

Answer: psychosis

Flashcard 6: mammillary bodies

Answer: confusion, ophthalmoplegia, ataxia, confabulation, personality change, permanent anterograde and retrograde amnesia

Flashcard 7: frontal lobe

Answer: disinhibition; deficits in concentration, orientation, judgment; reemergence of primitive reflexes

Flashcard 8: conduction aphasia

Answer: damage to arcuate fasciculus of dominant hemisphere

Extra: fluent speech, intact comprehension, impaired repetition

Flashcard 9: aphasia

Answer: speech deficit due to high-order processing problem

Flashcard 10: long-term memory

Answer: limbic system