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Specifics about each Level and each Item:
What you do you need to know:
Level 2
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Identifies
common cognitive/behavioral disorders
Aphasias (expressive, receptive,
conduction, global)
Delirium (aka Acute confusional state or
Metabolic Encephalopathy)
Dementia
Apraxia
Agnosia
Hemi-neglect
Mental Retardation/Developmental delay
Psychogenic disorders and malingering
Can properly do the following to identify
common cognitive/behavioral disorders:
Administers screening mental status exam
(MMSE)
Administers screening mental status exam
(MOCA)
Performs screening aphasia testing
(naming, fluency, repetition, comprehension)
Correlates focal lesions with behavioral
symptoms clinically
Correlates focal lesions with symptoms
with neuroimaging
Level 3
• Diagnoses
and manages
common cognitive/behavioral disorders, including
cognitive effects of traumatic brain injury
Same disorders in Level 2 with the
addition acute and chronic traumatic brain injuries
• Manages
behavioral complications of cognitive/behavioral
disorders
Impairments in sleep-wake cycle
Paranoia
Wandering
Agitation
Use of community resources for Aphasia,
Visual disturbances, etc.
Depression, Fatigue and Apathy
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Appropriately refers for neuropsychological testing in
evaluating patients with cognitive/behavioral disorders
Level 4
• Diagnoses and
manages UNCOMMON
cognitive/behavioral disorders
Prion disorders
Frontotemporal dementia and its variants
(behavioral variant, primary progressive aphasias,
Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, Corticobasal
degeneration)
Wilson's disease
Dementia with Lewy Bodies/Parkinson's
disease dementia
Cognition in ALS
Utilization behavior
Cognitive complications of Psychiatric
disorders
Psychiatric aspects of Neurological
Disorders
Down Syndrome associated Alzheimer's
disease
Adult Attention deficit hyperactivity
disorder
Tourette's syndrome and Obsessive
compulsive disorder
Posterior cortical atrophy
Multi-infarct dementia including CADASIL
Cognitive outcomes in Coma
Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus
Cognitive complications of systemic
disorders: Endocrine, Rheumatological, Cardiac
Cognitive aspects of epilepsy
Childhood Attention Deficit Hyperactivity
disorder
Direct and indirect effects of Neoplasms
on cognition and behavior
Cognitive
effects of Multiple sclerosis and central demyelinating
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