Week 1:
Suggested reading for this week: Chapters 1, 2 and 3.
Voorbereidingen werkgroep week 1: Work group session 1 'Neurocognitive
disorders in older adults'
Make sure that the MMSE is available to you during the work group. You
will then need to score the MMSE while viewing a patient video.
Homework:
(1) Try the Trailmakingtest at home and note the number of seconds needed to
complete trails A and B.
Trail A: 13 seconden
Trail B: 45 seconden
(2) Imagine that you are a neuropsychologist in a memory clinic, what would
you ask the elderly women with memory complaints sitting in front of you, and
what would you ask her son?
Question 1: How long has his problem been going on?
Question 2: Are there specific things u feel u forget more often?
Question 3: Would you say the memory complaints are worsening?
Question 4: If u could rate your memory problems from a scale of 1-10,
what would you rate it?
Question 5: How do these complaints influence your everyday life? Or
specific situations?
Question 6: Have you been diagnosed with any illnesses in the past or
are you taking medication?
,For the son:
Question 1: How severe would you say your mothers memory
complaints are?
Question 2: Are there any specific things u notice ur mother has
problems recalling?
Question 3: Was your mother always having complaint with memory?
Question 4: If u could rate her memory from a scale of 1-10, what would
you rate it?
Question 5: Do you feel your mothers memory complaints influence your
everyday life, are there also any specific situations?
,Aantekeningen werkgroep 1
• Poster deadline: woensdag 13 maart 23:59
• Register groups before march 1st
• Je moet een filmpje maken
• Presentatie in wg7: presenteren neurologische stoornis met dezelfde groep
• Oefenpresentatie wg 4: deze wordt dus niet becijferd
-
Six key domains of cognitieve functions: SAMPLE
1. Memory and learning
- Learning, retaining and reproducing information
2. Language
- Speech, writing and reading ability, comprehension of language
3. Executive functions
- Planning, decision making, inhibition
4. Complex attention
- Selective attention, sustained attention
5. Perception and motor
- Visual perception, visuocontructive abilities
6. Social Cognition
- Empathy
Neurocognitive disorder (DSM-5) (dementia)
Major cognitive disorder:
a. substantial cognitive declin ein one or more of the cognitive domains: learning and memory,
attention, language, perception, praxis, executive functioning or social cognition
b. The cognitive deficits are sufficient to interfere with independence in daily living
c. Not due to delirium: state of confusion
d. No due to other mental disorder
Mild neurocognitive disorder
a. Evidence of modest cognitive decline in one or more cognitive domains
, b. The cognitive deficits are insufficient to interfere with independence in daily living
c. Not due to delirium
d. Not due to other mental disorder
With or without behavioral disturbance
Soorten neurocognitieve stoornissen:
1. Alzheimer
2. Huntington
3. Parkinsons
4. Traumatic brain injury
5. HIV
6. MS
7. Vascular neurocognitive disorder
8. Frontotemporal neurocognitive disorder
9. With lewy bodies: proteins that do not get recycled
10....more.....
Alzheimer disease
Probable alzheimer disease
a. AD genetic mutation from family history or genetic testing
b. Clear decline in memory + 1 in other cognitive domai
c. Steadily progressive, gradual decline in cognition, without extended plateas
d. No evidence of mixed etiology
Dementia screening
- (Hetero) anamnesis
- Test and questionnaires:
1. Cambridge cognitive examnation
2. Wechsler memory scale
3. Trail making test a and b
4. Neuropsychiatric questionnaire, more detailed test of memory, language, apraxia, agnosia,
executive functions
5. Observation
Soorten vragen
- Reden van aanmelding
- Specifieke cognitieve problemen
1. Memory
2. Concentration/attention
3. Praxis
4. Language
Suggested reading for this week: Chapters 1, 2 and 3.
Voorbereidingen werkgroep week 1: Work group session 1 'Neurocognitive
disorders in older adults'
Make sure that the MMSE is available to you during the work group. You
will then need to score the MMSE while viewing a patient video.
Homework:
(1) Try the Trailmakingtest at home and note the number of seconds needed to
complete trails A and B.
Trail A: 13 seconden
Trail B: 45 seconden
(2) Imagine that you are a neuropsychologist in a memory clinic, what would
you ask the elderly women with memory complaints sitting in front of you, and
what would you ask her son?
Question 1: How long has his problem been going on?
Question 2: Are there specific things u feel u forget more often?
Question 3: Would you say the memory complaints are worsening?
Question 4: If u could rate your memory problems from a scale of 1-10,
what would you rate it?
Question 5: How do these complaints influence your everyday life? Or
specific situations?
Question 6: Have you been diagnosed with any illnesses in the past or
are you taking medication?
,For the son:
Question 1: How severe would you say your mothers memory
complaints are?
Question 2: Are there any specific things u notice ur mother has
problems recalling?
Question 3: Was your mother always having complaint with memory?
Question 4: If u could rate her memory from a scale of 1-10, what would
you rate it?
Question 5: Do you feel your mothers memory complaints influence your
everyday life, are there also any specific situations?
,Aantekeningen werkgroep 1
• Poster deadline: woensdag 13 maart 23:59
• Register groups before march 1st
• Je moet een filmpje maken
• Presentatie in wg7: presenteren neurologische stoornis met dezelfde groep
• Oefenpresentatie wg 4: deze wordt dus niet becijferd
-
Six key domains of cognitieve functions: SAMPLE
1. Memory and learning
- Learning, retaining and reproducing information
2. Language
- Speech, writing and reading ability, comprehension of language
3. Executive functions
- Planning, decision making, inhibition
4. Complex attention
- Selective attention, sustained attention
5. Perception and motor
- Visual perception, visuocontructive abilities
6. Social Cognition
- Empathy
Neurocognitive disorder (DSM-5) (dementia)
Major cognitive disorder:
a. substantial cognitive declin ein one or more of the cognitive domains: learning and memory,
attention, language, perception, praxis, executive functioning or social cognition
b. The cognitive deficits are sufficient to interfere with independence in daily living
c. Not due to delirium: state of confusion
d. No due to other mental disorder
Mild neurocognitive disorder
a. Evidence of modest cognitive decline in one or more cognitive domains
, b. The cognitive deficits are insufficient to interfere with independence in daily living
c. Not due to delirium
d. Not due to other mental disorder
With or without behavioral disturbance
Soorten neurocognitieve stoornissen:
1. Alzheimer
2. Huntington
3. Parkinsons
4. Traumatic brain injury
5. HIV
6. MS
7. Vascular neurocognitive disorder
8. Frontotemporal neurocognitive disorder
9. With lewy bodies: proteins that do not get recycled
10....more.....
Alzheimer disease
Probable alzheimer disease
a. AD genetic mutation from family history or genetic testing
b. Clear decline in memory + 1 in other cognitive domai
c. Steadily progressive, gradual decline in cognition, without extended plateas
d. No evidence of mixed etiology
Dementia screening
- (Hetero) anamnesis
- Test and questionnaires:
1. Cambridge cognitive examnation
2. Wechsler memory scale
3. Trail making test a and b
4. Neuropsychiatric questionnaire, more detailed test of memory, language, apraxia, agnosia,
executive functions
5. Observation
Soorten vragen
- Reden van aanmelding
- Specifieke cognitieve problemen
1. Memory
2. Concentration/attention
3. Praxis
4. Language
