39 Old age psychiatry – 2
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1. The prevalence of depression in old age is 13%. | ![]() |
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2. Visual hallucinations are common in elderly depressed patients. | ![]() |
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3. The relapse rate of depression in the elderly is significantly reduced by maintenance medication. | ![]() |
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4. One-third of neurotic disorder of the elderly starts before age 65 years. | ![]() |
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5. The prevalence of psychotic symptoms in those aged above 70 years is 10%. | ![]() |
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6. Visual hallucinations are common in elderly people with paraphrenia. | ![]() |
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7. Diogenes syndrome is associated with fronto-temporal dementia. | ![]() |
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8. Low IQ is a risk factor for dementia. | ![]() |
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9. Determining Apoprotein E genotype is useful for counselling relatives of the risk of Alzheimer’s disease. | ![]() |
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10. A similarity between impaired cognition in old age and Alzheimer’s disease is an impaired visuospatial sketchpad. | ![]() |
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11. Antipsychotic drugs can cause lethal side-effects in Lewy body dementia. | ![]() |
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12. Spontaneous speech is fluent in semantic dementia. | ![]() |
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13. Emotional lability indicates vascular dementia rather than Alzheimer’s disease. | ![]() |
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14. Urinary incontinence suggests vascular dementia rather than Alzheimer’s disease. | ![]() |
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15. Shrinkage of cells in the cerebral cortex occurs in normal ageing. | ![]() |
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16. The latency of evoked responses is decreased in Alzheimer’s disease. | ![]() |
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17. A normal MRI is possible in Alzheimer’s disease. | ![]() |
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18. Neurofibrillary tangles are seen in dementia due to boxing. | ![]() |
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19. Multi-infarct dementia may be diagnosed despite a normal CT brain scan. | ![]() |
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20. Non-pharmacological interventions can delay institutional care in dementia. | ![]() |
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21. Paraphrenia responds well to antipsychotic drug treatment. | ![]() |
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22. In co-morbid epilepsy and depression in the elderly, improved control of epilepsy improves depression. | ![]() |
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23. SSRIs have proven value in treating non-cognitive features of dementia. | ![]() |
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24. Donepezil has a short biological half-life. | ![]() |
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25. Memantine is useful in vascular dementia. | ![]() |