Alzheimers
The most common cause of dementia.
What is Alzheimer’s disease?
The preferred monotherapy for depression.
What is sertraline?
The book for the diagnosis of mental health conditions.
What is the DSM 5?
This many people have Alzheimers disease as of 2022.
What is 6.5 million people?
This percent of people with Alzheimers also have depression.
What is 40%?
This therapy has not been found to be helpful in the treatment of Alzheimer's and depression.
What is family therapy?
The only drug approved to treat the beta amyloid plaques in the brain.
What is aducanumab?
This many symptoms are needed to be present in a 2 week period for a diagnosis of depression.
What is 5?
This exam measures memory, orientation, language, attention, visuospatial, and constructional skills.
What is the mini mental status exam?
These 3 things are the biggest risk factors for developing late stage AD.
What are age, family history, and genetics?
Depressed mood or this symptom must be present for a diagnosis or depression.
What is loss of interest or pleasure?
Addenbrooke’s Cognitive Examination uses this many points as a scale.
What is 100?
The two types of proteins that accumulate within the brain of an Alzheimer's patient.
What are beta amyloid and phosphorylated tau?
These are less common but suggestive of greater severity of illness.
What are psychomotor disturbances?
Neuropsychiatric inventory examines these two things in dementia behaviors.
What are frequency and severity?