Clinical Reasoning
Therapy differs between stroke and dementia because dementia is this type of condition
What is progressive?
A quick screening tool, not a full diagnostic assessment.
What is MMSE or MoCA?
Another term for mild traumatic brain injury.
What is concussion?
The hallmark early symptom of Alzheimer’s disease.
What is memory impairment?
This condition is associated with long-term alcohol abuse and severe memory impairment.
What is Korsakoff syndrome?
A patient who denies their deficits is demonstrating this.
What is anosognosia?
A therapy technique involving repeated recall over increasing time intervals.
What is spaced retrieval training?
The most common type of TBI.
What is mild TBI?
This dementia presents first with executive dysfunction rather than memory loss.
What is vascular dementia?
Left neglect, poor humor comprehension, and difficulty with pragmatics suggest this.
What is right hemisphere damage?
Standardized tests alone are insufficient because they do not measure this.
What is real-world functioning?
Best treatment approach for progressive dementia.
What are compensatory strategies?
This scale is used to assess level of consciousness after brain injury.
What is the Glasgow Coma Scale?
Hallucinations and fluctuating cognition are key features of this dementia.
What is Lewy Body dementia?
Inability to recognize familiar faces.
What is prosopagnosia?
PTA duration is used to predict this
What is severity/outcome of TBI?
This is appropriate when speech is limited but cognition is relatively intact.
What is AAC?
Flexed arms toward the body indicate this type of posturing.
What is decorticate posturing?
Personality and behavioral changes are most prominent in this dementia.
What is frontotemporal dementia?
Damage to this brain structure results in difficulty with encoding new memories
What is the hippocampus?
This type of injury occurs after the initial trauma due to swelling or ischemia.
What is secondary injury?
This intervention approach emphasizes real-life, contextualized communication.
What is Ylvisaker’s approach?
This injury is NOT easily detected on standard CT or MRI.
What is diffuse axonal injury?
This is a modifiable risk factor strongly linked to dementia.
What is hearing loss?
A patient with PTSD and new-onset stuttering should first be evaluated for this type.
What is psychogenic stuttering?