Frontotemporal dementia — Flashcards

Flashcard 1: What are the first-line pharmacologic treatments (2) for panic disorder? _____

Answer: SSRIs or venlafaxine

Flashcard 2: In cognitive testing; asking the patient to write a complete sentence with noun-verb agreement tests _____ skills

Answer: language

Flashcard 3: Vascular dementia is characterized by a step-wise decline in cognitive ability with _____-onset memory impairment

Answer: late

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

Answer: depression (psych disorder)

Flashcard 5: Lesions to the _____ lobe may result in disinhibition, apathy, and deficits in concentration, orientation, and judgment

Answer: frontal

Flashcard 6: What are the first-line pharmacologic treatments (2) for generalized anxiety disorder? _____

Answer: SSRIs or SNRIs

Flashcard 7: Early-onset dementia with Parkinsonian features is suggestive of _____ dementia

Answer: Lewy body

Flashcard 8: mammillary bodies

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

Flashcard 9: frontal lobe

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

Flashcard 10: conduction aphasia

Answer: damage to arcuate fasciculus of dominant hemisphere

Extra: fluent speech, intact comprehension, impaired repetition