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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