How to diagnose different types of Dementia: Quiz | USMLE

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Q1. Which of the following presents with early personality changes?
A. Alzheimer Disease
B. Frontotemporal Dementia
C. Lewy Body Dementia


Q2. Patients with Down Syndrome are at a higher risk of developing Alzheimer Disease. Which of the following is the greatest risk factor?
A. Because they have learning disabilities
B. Smaller size of cranium
C. Extra chromosome copy


Q3. 55 year old male Patient presents with jerking movements of his limbs. His daughter reports that he has been behaving differently. The patient’s father also had similar symptoms at the age of 62.
What is the most likely diagnosis?

A. Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease
B. Huntington Disease
C. Pick Disease

Q4. Gait disturbance, cognitive dysfunction, urinary incontinence which type of dementia am I talking about?
A. Frontotemporal Dementia
B. Lewy Body Dementia
C. Huntington Disease
D. Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus


Q5. Patients w uncontrolled atrial fibrillation are at the highest risk of developing which type of dementia?
A. Vascular dementia
B. Frontotemporal dementia
C. Lewy body dementia

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