alzheimers

What might an Alzheimers doctor ask a patient or a patients family member about?

• Their diet

• How many pets their have

• Information about past medical problems

• What perfume their wearing

Which medication is used to treat moderate to severe Alzheimers?

• Galantamine

• Rivastigmine

• Memantine

• Donepezli

What is the biggest known risk factor for Alzheimers and other dementias?

• Family history

• genetics

• age

• deterministic genes

Those with an immediate family member with Alzheimers are (a)   likely to develop the disease

Doctors tend to only use the term _____ _____ when a person has clear clinical features of two types of dementia

• vascular dementia

• mixed dementia

• Lewy body dementia

• frontotemporal dementia

Which is the second most common progressive dementia behind Alzheimers disease?

• Lewy body dementia

• frontotemporal dementia

• vascular dementia

• mixed dementia

frontotemporal dementia is____ and tends to occur at a ____ age

• Common; older

• rare; older

• common; younger

• rare; younger

True or False: Alzheimers and dementia is a normal part of aging

• True

• False

What % of Alzheimers cases are caused my deterministic genes?

• 10%

• 32%

• 1%

• 5%

_____ inhibitors prevent the breakdown of accetycholine

• donepezli

• memantine

• edephesterease

• cholinesterase