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1. Which of the following is the primary risk factor for developing dementia?
A. Age
B. Education level
C. Diet
D. Activity level
2. In AD, the tau protein becomes twisted and aggregates forming bundles, called neurofibrillary tangles, and are prominent in spaces between brain cells.
A. True
B. False
3. In FTD, changes to nerve cells of which area of the brain affect the ability to reason and make decisions, prioritize and multitask, act appropriately, and control movement?
A. Temporal lobes
B. Occipital lobes
C. Frontal lobes
D. Parietal lobes
4. In semantic PPA, a person slowly loses the ability to understand single words and sometimes to recognize the faces of familiar people and common objects.
A. True
B. False
5. Which type of dementia would cause a person to suddenly laugh or cry very easily?
A. Argyrophilic grain disease
B. Progressive supranuclear palsy
C. Pick’s disease
D. Lewy body dementia
6. In dementia with Lewy bodies, difficulty sleeping, loss of smell, and visual hallucinations often precede movement and other problems by as long as _____ years.
A. 4
B. 6
C. 8
D. 10
7. Most people die within a year of onset of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
A. True
B. False
8. During Wilson’s disease, excessive amounts of which mineral builds up and causes brain damage?
A. Iron
B. Copper
C. Calcium
D. Lead
9. High levels of which molecule has been linked to Alzheimer’s disease?
A. Glucose
B. HDL
C. LDL
D. Albumin
10. Neurons regenerate under excessive glutamate activity levels.
A. True
B. False
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