Category fluency in mild cognitive impairment: reduced effect of practice in test-retest conditions.
Alzheimer Dis Assoc Disord
; 18(3): 120-2, 2004.
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| ID: mdl-15494616
ABSTRACT
Verbal fluency tests are commonly used in neurocognitive and mental status examinations in patients with suspected dementia. Inflation of test scores as a result of practice effects may yield false-negative results in test-retest and multidisciplinary settings, particularly among patients with mild cognitive deficits. To address this issue, animal naming was administered twice within a 1-week period to a group of individuals referred for suspected dementia who were ultimately diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment (MCI; amnestic form), probable Alzheimer disease (AD), or no dementia. A 2 x 3 repeated-measures analysis of variance revealed a statistically significant interaction between administration time and group. Post hoc analyses indicated that nondemented controls were the only group to demonstrate a significant practice effect, producing an average of approximately three more animal names at time two. Like patients with a diagnosis of AD, subjects with amnestic MCI failed to benefit from repeated exposure to the animal naming test, and only controls showed an average improvement upon retest. This underscores the cognitive similarity between individuals diagnosed with amnestic MCI and AD and suggests that improvement upon retest may be a diagnostically useful finding.
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Coleções:
01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Transtornos Cognitivos
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Doença de Alzheimer
Tipo de estudo:
Etiology_studies
Limite:
Aged
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Alzheimer Dis Assoc Disord
Assunto da revista:
NEUROLOGIA
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PSIQUIATRIA
Ano de publicação:
2004
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Estados Unidos