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26 Cards in this Set
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acquired confusional state
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dementia
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acute confusional stage
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delirium
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lack of recognition of objects
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agnosia
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can physically perform a given task, but can't do it on command
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apraxia
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tremor that is worse when moving an arm upward
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postural
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(+) lewy bodies
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parkinsons
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dementia with visual hallucinations
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lewy body dementia
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dementia that often presents w/ both cognitive and movement sx
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lewy body dementia
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dementia caused by abnormal gene on chromosome 4
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huntingtons
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huntington disease affects what part of the brain
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caudate nucleus
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increased levels of CSF protein 14-3-3
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creutzfeldt-jacob disease
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most common form of CJD
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sporadic
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dx criteria of alzheimers
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memory loss + 1 or more
-aphasia, apraxia, agnosia, executive functioning |
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ND disease that presents like alzheimers
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picks disease
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picks disease affects what lobes
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frontal
temporal |
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spherical inclusions inside cell
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picks disease
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drug that causes irreversible damage to substantia nigra
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MPTP
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neuronal protein that gets misfolded and causes cell death in parkinsons
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alpha-synuclein
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disease that presents with hypersensitivity to antipsychotics
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alzheimers
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MS is more common in which sex
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female
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mean age of onset of MS
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31
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HLA assx with ms
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HLA-DR2
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MS-assx genes
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CCR5
ApoE CNTF |
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CSF findings in MS
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oligoclonal bands
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when are ACh inhibitors useful in alzheimers
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early
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rapidly progressive dementia
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CJD
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