Exam 15: Neurocognitive Disorders

There are currently an estimated ______ people in the UK with dementia.

In some neurological disorders the individual may be unable to recognise everyday objects and name them correctly.This is known as:

Severe head injury can be associated with a range of semi-permanent cognitive and neurological deficits,including general deficits in:

Abnormal collections of twisted nerve cell threads which result in errors in impulses between nerve cells and eventual cell death.These are known as?

A common feature of many neurological disorders is known as:

Known risk factors for Alzheimer's Disease include:

An alternative approach to dealing with attention deficits is not to try and improve attention itself,but to provide the client with some compensatory skills that will allow them to effectively manage their slowed information processing.This is known as:

When a blood clot forms in an artery supplying blood to the brain,this is known as:

An inability to initiate speech or respond to speech with anything other than simple words is known as:

The production of incoherent,jumbled speech is known as:

A less disabling form of HIV dementia is known as minor cognitive motor disorder (MCMD),and consists of memory loss and reduction of cognitive and computational functions,and this appears to affect around ______ of those with HIV.

Which of the following is one of the most widely used tests for neurological disorders worldwide? It contains scales that measure vocabulary,arithmetic ability,digit span,information comprehension,letter-number sequencing,picture completion ability,reasoning ability,symbol search and object assembly ability.

The genetic abnormality in Huntington's Disease is found on the fourth chromosome.This results in the production of a protein which causes cell death in the basal ganglia.This protein is called:

Estimates of NCD with Lewy Bodies suggest that this form of neurocognitive disorder many account for up to ______ of all dementias.

Early symptoms of Huntingdon's Disease may include:

The most common causes of infarction are an embolism or a thrombosis.

Delirium appears to result from widespread disruption of brain metabolism and neurotransmitter activity that can be triggered by a range of events.Which of the following is not considered to be one of these?

Huntington's Disease is an inherited,degenerative disorder of the central nervous system,caused by a dominant gene.This means that everyone who inherits the gene from one of his/her parents will develop the disease with _____ likelihood:

Depression is a common and significant consequence of strokes,and studies suggest that what percent of stroke victims meet criteria for depression 10 years after their stroke?

The fact that depression appears to be a biological risk factor for a number of degenerative dementias has given rise to the view that depression may be accompanied by an allostatic state,which is: