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episodic memory
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specific personal events and their context (explicit/conscious)
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semantic memory
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general knowledge about the world (explicit/conscious)
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priming
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occurs when an earlier stimulus influences response to a later stimulus (imlicit/unconscious)
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procedural memory
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long-term memory of skills and procedures, or "how to" knowledge (implicit/unconscious)
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diagnostic criteria for dementia
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memory impairment plus at least one of the following:
1. aphasia: language disturbances
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contrast dementia and depression
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dementia: few complaints about cognitive loss, often unconcerned, often answers cognitive testing...
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list and differentiate the 4 most common types of dementia
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Alzheimer's
vascular
Lewy body
alcohol
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types of "reversible" dementia
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metabolic/endocrine: hypothyroid, hyperparathyroid, uremia, hepatic encephalopathy
nutritional:...
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difference b/w dementia and amnestic disorder
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amnestic disorder is an inability to learn new information or to recall previously learned...
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diagnostic criteria for Alzheimer disease
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the same criteria for dementia, as well as:
impairment in social/occupational functioning
gradual...
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dementia work-up and reasoning behind ordering each test
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tests for all of the reversible types of dementia
note that Alzheimer's can only be definitive...
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stages of Alzheimer's disease and the characteristics of each stage
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early (2-3 yrs): subtle deficits, increasingly forgetful, repeats convos, poor short-term memory
middle...
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neurotransmitters and brain areas implicated in Alzheimer's
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ACh projections from nucleus basalis to neocortex and pedunculopontine nucleus to thalamuscortical...
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protective factors for Alzheimer's
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active, engaged
advance education
high occupational status
multilingual
NSAID use
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risk factors for Alzheimer's
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low educational status
low occupational status
down syndrome
family history
smoking
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