40 Old age psychiatry – 3
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| 1. The female to male ratio for the prevalence of depression increases as people enter old age. |  |
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| 2. The onset of depression in a man aged 65 years without any previous history of depression suggests dementia. |  |
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| 3. The dexamethasone suppression test (DST) is a reliable test for depression in the elderly. |  |
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| 4. Generalized anxiety disorder presenting in old age is likely to have started in adulthood. |  |
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| 5. Sensory deprivation may lead to persecutory delusions in the elderly. |  |
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| 6. Delusional disorder of old age (paraphrenia) usually progresses to dementia. |  |
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| 7. Diogenes syndrome responds well to inpatient treatment. |  |
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| 8. Viral infection is a recognized cause of dementia. |  |
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| 9. Tobacco smoking increases the risk of Alzheimer’s disease. |  |
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| 10. Recognition is impaired before recall in Alzheimer’s disease. |  |
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| 11. Lewy body spectrum disorder includes Parkinson’s disease. |  |
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| 12. The pathology of semantic dementia involves the fronto-temporal region. |  |
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| 13. Dementia involving the frontal lobe is more likely to be due to Pick’s disease than Alzheimer’s disease. |  |
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| 14. Vascular dementia is more common than Alzheimer’s disease in 65–75-year-olds. |  |
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| 15. Old age and Alzheimer’s disease both show neuronal degeneration in layer 2 of the entorhinal cortex. |  |
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| 16. Old age depression is not associated with significant structural changes in brain imaging. |  |
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| 17. Leukoaraiosis is strongly associated with cognitive decline. |  |
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| 18. Narrow sulci are a characteristic pathological feature of Alzheimer’s disease. |  |
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| 19. In Pick’s disease, the atrophy is mostly fronto-temporal. |  |
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| 20. The use of day hospitals in old age psychiatry reduces the number of admissions. |  |
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| 21. Treating hypertension would reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease. |  |
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| 22. In elderly patients antidepressants are safer than ECT. |  |
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| 23. Cholinesterase inhibitors improve cognitive function in 65% of cases of mild Alzheimer’s disease. |  |
