CDCR CORRECTIONAL SERGEANT
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ANSWERS PREMIUM STUDY GUIDE
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⩥ What is front temporal dementia. Answer: Dementia is an irreversible,
progressive impairment in cognitive function, affecting
- memory
- orientation
- judgement
- reasoning
- attention span
- language and problem-solving skills
1. Memory Impairment
2. Aphasia: difficulty speaking
3. Apraxia: speech muscle impairment
4. Agnosia: inability to recognize faces, objects, or places
5. Disturbance in executive functioning
Signs and Symptoms
, - decline in memory, reasoning, and communication
- changes in behavior
- loss of skills (ADL's and IADL's)
- movement difficulties
Frontal Temporal Dementia is characterized by neuronal atrophy
affecting the frontal lobes of the brain rather neurofibrillary tangles and
plaques as seen in Alzheimer's.
- shrinking of the frontal lobes of the brain
Language Abnormalities
- logorrhea: unfocused speech
- echolalia: spontaneous repetition of words/phrases
- palilalia: compulsive repetition of phrases
Behavioral Changes
- either withdrawn of disinhibited
Pick's disease (most common)
- subtype of frontal temporal dementia
- pick bodies (silver staining intracytoplasmic inclusions in neocortex
and hippocampus)
INTERVIEW 2026 CERTIFICATION
SELECTION TEST PAPER COMPLETE
QUESTIONS AND EXPERT VERIFIED
ANSWERS PREMIUM STUDY GUIDE
GRADED A+
⩥ What is front temporal dementia. Answer: Dementia is an irreversible,
progressive impairment in cognitive function, affecting
- memory
- orientation
- judgement
- reasoning
- attention span
- language and problem-solving skills
1. Memory Impairment
2. Aphasia: difficulty speaking
3. Apraxia: speech muscle impairment
4. Agnosia: inability to recognize faces, objects, or places
5. Disturbance in executive functioning
Signs and Symptoms
, - decline in memory, reasoning, and communication
- changes in behavior
- loss of skills (ADL's and IADL's)
- movement difficulties
Frontal Temporal Dementia is characterized by neuronal atrophy
affecting the frontal lobes of the brain rather neurofibrillary tangles and
plaques as seen in Alzheimer's.
- shrinking of the frontal lobes of the brain
Language Abnormalities
- logorrhea: unfocused speech
- echolalia: spontaneous repetition of words/phrases
- palilalia: compulsive repetition of phrases
Behavioral Changes
- either withdrawn of disinhibited
Pick's disease (most common)
- subtype of frontal temporal dementia
- pick bodies (silver staining intracytoplasmic inclusions in neocortex
and hippocampus)
