Behavioral management in dementia — Flashcards

Flashcard 1: What group of drugs is the first line treatment for schizophrenia? _____

Answer: Atypical antipsychotics (e.g. risperidone)

Flashcard 2: Which psychiatric disorder, delirium or dementia, is characterized by disorganized thinking, visual hallucinations, disturbances in sleep wake cycle, cognitive dysfunction, and agitation? _____

Answer: Delirium

Flashcard 3: Which psychiatric disorder, delirium or dementia, is characterized by decreased intellectual function without affecting level of consciousness? _____

Answer: Dementia

Flashcard 4: _____ (dementia or delirium) is usually secondary to other illness (e.g. CNS disease, infection, trauma, substance abuse/withdrawal, metabolic disturbances, hemorrhage, urinary/fecal retention)

Answer: Delirium

Flashcard 5: _____ is defined as decreased cognitive ability, memory, or function with intact consciousness

Answer: Dementia

Flashcard 6: When diagnosing neurodegenerative disorders, you must first rule out _____ as a cause of the presenting dementia

Answer: depression (psych disorder)

Flashcard 7: Which atypical antidepressant is useful for treating anorexic or elderly depressed patients? _____

Answer: Mirtazapine

Flashcard 8: mammillary bodies

Answer: confusion, ophthalmoplegia, ataxia, confabulation, personality change, permanent anterograde and retrograde amnesia

Flashcard 9: frontal lobe

Answer: disinhibition; deficits in concentration, orientation, judgment; reemergence of primitive reflexes

Flashcard 10: conduction aphasia

Answer: damage to arcuate fasciculus of dominant hemisphere

Extra: fluent speech, intact comprehension, impaired repetition