Vascular dementia — Flashcards

Flashcard 1: Dopamine receptor agonists, such as ropinirole, may _____ impulse activities (e.g. gambling, shopping, hypersexuality)

Answer: increase

Flashcard 2: Is dementia typically reversible or irreversible? _____

Answer: Irreversible

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

Answer: late

Flashcard 4: What is the general treatment for bipolar disorder? _____

Answer: Mood stabilizers

Flashcard 5: When diagnosing neurodegenerative disorders, you must first rule out _____ as a cause of the presenting dementia

Answer: depression (psych disorder)

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