39 Old age psychiatry – 2
| T | F | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. The prevalence of depression in old age is 13%. |  |  |
| 2. Visual hallucinations are common in elderly depressed patients. |  |  |
| 3. The relapse rate of depression in the elderly is significantly reduced by maintenance medication. |  |  |
| 4. One-third of neurotic disorder of the elderly starts before age 65 years. |  |  |
| 5. The prevalence of psychotic symptoms in those aged above 70 years is 10%. |  |  |
| 6. Visual hallucinations are common in elderly people with paraphrenia. |  |  |
| 7. Diogenes syndrome is associated with fronto-temporal dementia. |  |  |
| 8. Low IQ is a risk factor for dementia. |  |  |
| 9. Determining Apoprotein E genotype is useful for counselling relatives of the risk of Alzheimer’s disease. |  |  |
| 10. A similarity between impaired cognition in old age and Alzheimer’s disease is an impaired visuospatial sketchpad. |  |  |
| 11. Antipsychotic drugs can cause lethal side-effects in Lewy body dementia. |  |  |
| 12. Spontaneous speech is fluent in semantic dementia. |  |  |
| 13. Emotional lability indicates vascular dementia rather than Alzheimer’s disease. |  |  |
| 14. Urinary incontinence suggests vascular dementia rather than Alzheimer’s disease. |  |  |
| 15. Shrinkage of cells in the cerebral cortex occurs in normal ageing. |  |  |
| 16. The latency of evoked responses is decreased in Alzheimer’s disease. |  |  |
| 17. A normal MRI is possible in Alzheimer’s disease. |  |  |
| 18. Neurofibrillary tangles are seen in dementia due to boxing. |  |  |
| 19. Multi-infarct dementia may be diagnosed despite a normal CT brain scan. |  |  |
| 20. Non-pharmacological interventions can delay institutional care in dementia. |  |  |
| 21. Paraphrenia responds well to antipsychotic drug treatment. |  |  |
| 22. In co-morbid epilepsy and depression in the elderly, improved control of epilepsy improves depression. |  |  |
| 23. SSRIs have proven value in treating non-cognitive features of dementia. |  |  |
| 24. Donepezil has a short biological half-life. |  |  |
| 25. Memantine is useful in vascular dementia. |  |
