Boston Naming Test in Alzheimer's disease
Betsy White et al Williams
Bok Engelsk 1989
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| Omfang | 7 s.
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| Opplysninger | Abstract: -The 60-item Boston Naming Teast (BNT) was administered to 55 subjects: 15 mildly-to-moderately demented patients meeting NINCDS-ADRDA criteria for "probable" Alzheimer's disease, (AD), 15 age-equivalent normal control (NC) subjects, and - for purposes of validation - 25 additional subjects with other forms of dementia (OD). A cutting score of 51 correctly classified 80% of AD patients and 86% of NC subjects. To facilitate rapid screening of confrontation-naming performance in these populations, three 30-item shortened versions of the BNT were constructed. Even and Odd Versions were equivalent for Ad, NC, and OD subjects; high correlations between these two and the 60-item BNT permit easy extrapolation to a total BNT score. A new Empirical Version, derived from performance of our AD and NC reference groups, maintained most of the intergroup discrimination of the full BNT.
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