Cognitive assessment tools — Flashcards

Flashcard 1: Vascular dementia is characterized by a step-wise decline in cognitive ability with _____-onset memory impairment

Answer: late

Flashcard 2: In cognitive testing; asking the patient to draw a clock oriented to the time requested tests _____

Answer: executive function

Flashcard 3: _____ is defined as decreased cognitive ability, memory, or function with intact consciousness

Answer: Dementia

Flashcard 4: When diagnosing neurodegenerative disorders, you must first rule out _____ as a cause of the presenting dementia

Answer: depression (psych disorder)

Flashcard 5: mammillary bodies

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

Flashcard 6: frontal lobe

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

Flashcard 7: conduction aphasia

Answer: damage to arcuate fasciculus of dominant hemisphere

Extra: fluent speech, intact comprehension, impaired repetition

Flashcard 8: aphasia

Answer: speech deficit due to high-order processing problem

Flashcard 9: long-term memory

Answer: limbic system

Flashcard 10: Alzheimer's disease

Answer:

Extra: decreased: ACh