Exam 15: Neurocognitive Disorders

A person is MOST susceptible to a second concussion for approximately ______ days after having a first concussion

Delirium is MOST often reflects ______.

High blood pressure in midlife is MOST likely associated with ______ neurocognitive disorder in later adulthood.

Helen has just been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. She is in the very beginning stages of the disorder. Outline the progression of symptoms Helen and her family will experience as the disease progress over the next 10 to 20 years.

With age, brain volumes decrease in areas related to executive control memory.

______ disease is a neurological condition that primarily affects the motor system.

Marvin has Parkinson's disease but is not responding well to the pharmaceutical dopamine replacement therapy he has been prescribed. Marvin might consider ______ as an alternative biomedical therapy.

Approximately how many traumatic brain injuries occur in the United States each year?

Delirium is only observed among older adults.

Considerations informing the potential use of medication to treat neurocognitive disorders do NOT include that fact that ______.

The development of tangles follows a fixed pattern, starting in the entorhinal cortex.

When Elsie sits quietly, doing nothing in particular, the ______ network is active in her brain.

Explain what it means to age successfully by (a) identifying the three broad characteristics of successful aging and (b) providing concrete example of how a single day in your life at age 70 might illustrate all three aspects.

Suppose you are a neuroscientist, and you are studying brain activation differences between younger adults and older adults. You notice that while performing the same set of tasks, the older adults tend to use more of their brains than the younger adults. This phenomenon is known as ______ among older adults.

The incidence of mild and moderate neurocognitive disorders tends to ______ as we age.

The syndrome known as "punch-drunk" is often seen among ______.

In a study cited in the text (Deary et al., 2015), a cohort of individuals was given an IQ test at age 11 and again at age 79. The authors of this study reported that individuals with a certain variant of the APOE gene showed a decrease in IQ scores between ages 11 and 79, whereas individuals with another variant of this gene showed no change in IQ scores between ages 11 and 79. These results suggest that ______.

Assertions that exercise can reduce the risk of developing neurocognitive disorders are based largely on pseudoscience.

Steven, a 75-year-old, suddenly develops symptoms of confusion, impaired memory, and impaired attention, which go away a few days later. Steven is MOST likely experiencing ______.

Falls in the elderly are the most common cause of traumatic brain injury in the United States.