Comparative study of aprosody in Alzheimer's disease and in multi-infarct dementia
J.M.P. Trullen
Bok Engelsk 1996
| Utgitt | 1996
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| Omfang | Side 59- 62
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| Opplysninger | Prosody is defined as the melodic line of language. In this study weincluded 25 patients with probable Alzheimer's disease and 14 withmulti-infarct dementia for a comparative cross-sectional study ofprosody. Neuropsychological analysis was based on Mini-Mental test,Blessed Scale and Clinical Dementia Rating. We used the criteria ofMonrad-Krohn to evaluate prosodic categories. We found intrinsicaprosody in 8 patients with Alzheimer's disease and in none of thepatients with multi-infarct dementia (prevalence ratio: 1.82, 95% CI:1.32-2.51), and emotional aprosody in 17 patients with Alzheimer'sdisease in comparison to 4 with multi-infarct dementia (prevalenceratio: 1.8, 95% CI: 1.04-3.18). The differences in intellectual andinarticulate aprosody were not significant. We conclude that aprosodyis more frequent and severe in Alzheimer's disease than in multi-infarct dementia.
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