Different Performances on a Confrontational Naming Test in Patients with Alzheimer's Disease and Mild Cognitive Impairment
Journal of the Korean Geriatrics Society
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: 135-143, 2011.
Article
in Korean
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ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
We analyzed the performance on a naming test and the correlations between the scores on the naming test and neuropsychological test scores in patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and mild Alzheimer's disease (AD).METHODS:
The subjects included 69 patients with MCI and 33 patients with mild AD. We performed general cognitive functions, the Korean version of the Boston Naming Test (K-BNT), the digit span test, the Rey figure copy test (RCFT), the Seoul Verbal Learning Test (SVLT), and frontal function tests. The detailed items of the K-BNT were analyzed for the two subject groups, and the correlations between the K-BNT scores and those of the neuropsychological tests were examined.RESULTS:
Significant differences were observed on the item for the number of correct answers after two syllables on the K-BNT task in patients with AD and MCI (p<0.05). A qualitative analysis of the incorrect K-BNT responses showed that both the AD and MCI groups made semantic errors more than visuoperceptual and phonemic errors. Significant correlations were found among the Mini-Mental State Examination, the Global Deterioration Scale, clinical dementia rating, digit span, SVLT delayed recall, RCFT and RCFT delayed recall, and the Stroop test color reading items (p<0.01).CONCLUSION:
Our result suggests that semantic errors gradually increase with the progress of cognitive disability in the state preceding AD among patients with MCI.
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Main subject:
Semantics
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Verbal Learning
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Boston
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Coat Protein Complex I
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Dementia
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Stroop Test
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Alzheimer Disease
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Cognitive Dysfunction
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Neuropsychological Tests
Type of study:
Qualitative research
Limits:
Humans
Country/Region as subject:
North America
Language:
Korean
Journal:
Journal of the Korean Geriatrics Society
Year:
2011
Type:
Article
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