DEVELOPMENT OF AN EARLY DETECTION BATTERY FOR DEMENTIA OF THE ALZHEIMER TYPE

被引:7
作者
COHN, JB
WILCOX, CS
LERER, BE
机构
[1] Pharmacology Research Institute Long Beach, CA
关键词
ALZHEIMERS DISEASE; AGE-MATCHED CONTROL; COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT; DEPRESSIVE PSEUDODEMENTIA; DYSNOMIA; LANGUAGE-DEPENDENT FUNCTIONS; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRESUMPTIVE DIAGNOSIS; PRIMARY DEGENERATIVE DEMENTIA; STANDARDIZED BATTERY; UNDIFFERENTIATED DEMENTIA; VISUOSPATIAL DEFICITS;
D O I
10.1016/0278-5846(91)90022-S
中图分类号
R74 [神经病学与精神病学];
学科分类号
摘要
1. To develop a diagnostic battery sensitive to and specific for the early detection of Alzheimer disease (AD) dementia, the authors reviewed over 400 journal articles dealing with the diagnosis of A.D. or senile dementia and cognitive assessment in organic brain dysfunction and closed head injury. 2. We culled those studies that met our criteria for solid, reliable and statistically significant results and recommend the testing paradigms that most often produced good discrimination of mild AD dementia from normal senescence. 3. These include tests of language, verbal and non-verbal memory, perception, praxis, attention and reasoning. 4. The battery we assembled takes less than 1 hour to administer, requires no special equipment, and was designed as an early screen for use by psychologists, psychiatrists and other trained health care professionals; it is not intended for repeated administration, as in pharmacological or longitudinal studies.
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页码:433 / 479
页数:47
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