Dementia
This is the definition of dementia.
What is a decline in mental ability severe enough to interfere with daily life?
The definition of Alzheimer's disease.
What is the gradual onset and steadily worsening of the most common dementia?
Multiple sclerosis is.
What is a disease of the central nervous system?
This is a key component of being diagnosed with primary progressive apraxia of speech.
What is isolated apraxia of speech?
The areas in the brain where there is brain damage in Parkinson's disease.
What is the basal ganglia, substantia nigra, or brainstem?
This is the cause of dementia.
What is brain cell damage that is affecting cognition, behavior, and emotional functioning?
These are the cause of Alzheimer's disease.
These are impacts on cognitive function.
What are memory, learning, and word finding?
This is a "tell-tale sign" of apraxia.
What is groping?
This is the cardinal symptom of Parkinson's.
What is impairments of the motor system?
These are the functions that need to be significantly impaired for an individual to be diagnosed with dementia.
What are memory, language, attention, visual perception, reasoning, and judgement?
What is late stage?
Multiple sclerosis effects what areas SLPs treat.
What are speech, swallowing, and cognition?
This is what primary progressive apraxia is.
What is a progressive and isolated motor speech disorder?
This is the biggest risk factor of Parkinson's disease.
What is age?
This is the difference between dementia and Alzheimer's disease.
What is Alzheimer's disease is a form of dementia?
The location in the brain where the plagues and tangles begin.
What is the hippocampus of the temporal lobe?
This is the cause of multiple sclerosis
What are recurrent immune reactions in the brain and spinal cord?
This disorder is common with primary progressive apraxia.
What is primary progressive aphasia?
There are four types of Parkinson's disease: Primary parkinsonism, secondary parkinsonism associated with toxin esposure, hereditary parkinsonism associated with genetic forms, and?
What is parkinsonism plus syndromes?
This is the number of areas of mental functions that need to be impaired in order to be diagnosed with dementia.
What is two?
This is the protein that starts the plagues and tangles.
What is Tau?
These are the symptoms related to multiple sclerosis.
What are difficulties with vision, weakness or stiffness, fatigue, numbness or tingling, problems with walking or balance, mood changes, and bladder control?
This symptom is also seen with the isolated apraxia of speech.
What is focal degeneration of superior premotor cortex?
These are the areas that SLPs can work with when they have Parkinson's disease
What is speech, swallowing, and saliva?