Diagnoses
Terminology
Odds and Ends
People
Testing
100
What type of dementia is the most common?
Alzheimer's Disease
100
What are ADLs?
Activities of Daily Living
100
Which cognitive process is one of the first to deteriorate in dementia and is often the one people first complain about?
Memory
100
Who is credited with identifying first published case of "presenile dementia"?
Alois Alzheimer
100
What does the Montreal Test assess?
Basic cognitive functioning in several domains
200
What is General Paresis?
Syphilis of the brain.
200
Bradykinesia refers to what type of motor disturbance?
General slowing of motor activity.
200
Which of the following is associated with Mad Cow Disease: Prion disease, Parkinson’s disease, or Huntington’s disease?
Prion disease
200
What German psychiatrist first used the term Alzheimer's Disease in his classification of mental disorders?
Emil Kraepelin
200
Which MRI below shows a minor neurocognitive disorder? A or B?
300
Dementia is called what in DSM-5-TR?
Major Neurocognitive Disorder?
300
What type of neurocognitive disorders are caused by blockage or damage to blood vessels such as in a stroke?
Vascular Neurocognitive Disorders
300
Name two basic ADLS?
300
What famous actor has Parkinson disease?
Michael J. Fox, Bruce Willis, or Christina Applegate
Michael J. Fox
300
The neuropsychological test below is known as: The Number-Letter Test, The Coding Test, or the Trail-Making Test.
Trailmaking Test
400
Vascular neurocognitive disorders usually involve what?
Blood flow or circulation.
400
What do we call a temporary confusion, disorientation, and clouding of consciousness usually caused by medications, dehydration, head injury, surgery, hospitalization, infection of illness?
Delirium
400
What two brain abnormalities are characteristic of Alzheimer's Disease?
Neurofibrillary tau tangles and Amyloid plaques
Tangles
400
Which famous actor was diagnosed with Frontotemporal Neurocognitive Disorder?
Michael J. Fox, Bruce Willis, or Christina Applegate
Bruce Willis
400
A test that assesses fine motor coordination, visuospatial ability, executive functioning and verbal and semantic memory is the ?
The Clock Drawing Test
The Dog Drawing Test
The Toaster Drawing Test
The Clock Drawing Test
500
Pseudo-dementia or false dementia is often seen in older people and is usually caused by what psychological disorder?
Depression
500
Evidence of significant cognitive decline from a previous level of performance in one or more cognitive domains is part of the criteria for what disorder?
Major neurocognitive disorder
500
Evidence of modest cognitive decline from a previous level of performance in one or more cognitive domains is characteristics of what mental disorder?
Mild Neurocognitive Disorder
500
Who was Auguste Deter?
The first person officially diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease
500
This type of Brain scan is most likely a CT, A PET scan, or a MRI scan?
PET Scan
