Neuropsychological differentiation of Alzheimer's disease from vascular dementia
Amy et al. Barr
Bok Engelsk 1992
| Utgitt | 1992
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| Omfang | 7 s.
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| Opplysninger | Summary: The purpose of this study was to determine whether cognitive test performances alone could distinguish patients with probable Alzheimer's disease from those with probable vascular dementia. Sixty-eight outpatients with clinical diagnoses of either Alzheimer's disease or vascular dementia were administered a brief battery of neuropsychological tests. Scores from the Boston Naming Test and the Hopkins Verbal Learning Test were identified as most discriminating of the groups. Seventy-seven per cent of the sample was correctly classified by a stepwise discriminant function analysis. results of this study indicate that selected neuropsychological tests have moderat concurrent utility in the differential diagnosis of dementia.
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