Quiz Week 7 SLP 534

Vascular Dementia

it is caused by problems of the blood supply to the brain

Frontotemporal dementia

it manifests through personality and behavioral changes.

what is the most common form of dementia

Alzheimer's disease

Define Alzheimer's disease

gradual onset impacting memory, attention, and executive functions

Alzheimer's disease is divided into..

early, middle, late

which dementia is NOT cortical?

Huntington's disease

Define Mild Cognitive Impairment

a condition of cognitive decline not consistent with normal aging

Define Dementia

a constellation of symptoms including memory impairment, one or more cognitive or linguistic impairments, early/middle/late stages.

Primary Progressive Aphasia is compared to degenerative, cognition declines first, then language (True/False)

False

Primary Progressive Aphasia can lead to MCI, then Dementia (true/false)

True

Non-fluent Agrammatic PPA

difficulty understanding/ producing syntax

Semantic variant PPA

word finding/comprehension difficulties. Loss of Semantic Knowledge.

Logopenic variant PPA

tend to have problems with word finding, especially in spontaneous conversation.

Dementia and amnestic disorders are now called neurocognitive disorders (True/False)

True

Dysnomia

frequent difficulty coming up with specific words they want to say.

early signs of dementia include symptoms of communication impairment related to pragmatics (true/false)

True

Define Primary Progressive Aphasia

the category of dementias characterized by the insidious loss of linguistic abilities, eventually leading to general cognitive impairments, and associated with frontotemporal degeneration and Alzheimer's disease.

Difference with PPA and Aphasia

PPA regresses, and Aphasia improves/stabilizes.

Dementia is defined as memory deficits, plus:

difficulty with abstract thinking, judgement, and complex tasks

dementia and MCI generally have pragmatic deficits in verbal situations (true/false)

True

Matching: Dementia

memory impairment is a hallmark/feature