In the histopathology of Semantic dementia predominates:
A. Pick bodies
B. Ubiquitin inclusions
C. Plaques
D. Tangles
Question 2 Key area implicated in the pathology of FTD that are also implicated in deficits in ToM
A. Associative cortex
B. Orbitofrontal cortex
C. Occipital cortex
D. Anterior cingulate
Clinical behavioural features of FTD: (multiple answers possible)
A. Insidius decline personality and behavioural disturbances
B. Complete loss of memory
C. Loss of empathy, stereotypic and repetitive behavious, disinhibition
D. Poor self care
Key brain area for Conceptual knowledge: (multiple answers possible)
A. Medialtemporal lobe
B. Frontal Lobe
C. Anterior Temporal lobe
D. Parietal lobe
In early onset dementias, FTD has a third place after: (multiple answers possibe)
A. Vascular dementia
B. Lewy Body Dementia
C. Alzheimer disease
D. Huntington disease
Key area associated with semantic deficits in FTD are:
A. Orbitofrontal cortex
B. Perirhinal Cortex
C. Associative Cortex
D. Parietal cortex
The following are the main subtypes of FTD except:
A. Behavioral variant
C. Semantic dementia
D. Progressive non-fluent aphasia
B. Progressive paraphasia
FTD frequently overlaps with other neurological diseases, in particular with: (multiple answers possible)
B. Motor Neuron Disease
D. Corticobasal degeneration
A. Alzheimer disease
C. Parkinson disease
FTD can be divided into subgroups depending on histological features which include: (multiple answer is possible)
D. Neurofilament-positive
B. Tau-positive
C. Ubiquitin-positive
A. Neurotubulin-positive
In average, survival time for overall variants of FTD (excluding FTD-MND) is
D. 15-20years
C. 7-8 years
B. 10-15 years
A. 3-5 years
FTD Non-Tau genetics is related to : (multiple answer is possible)
B. Chromosome 17p11
C. Endosomal EEA1
D. Endosomal ESRCT III
A. Chromosome 17q21
Question 12 A core deficit in FTD is a
B. Defective “Theory of Mind”
C. Defective Memory
D. Defective Speech
A. Defective Motor sykills
Question 13 “Theory of mind” (ToM) refers to:
B. Ability to infer the mental state of other people (“mentalising”)
A. Ability to infer what is coming in the future
D. Ability to infer empathic emotions
C. Ability to infer mathematical and physical solutions
