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Neuropsychological performance in Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia — comparisons in a memory clinic population
Author(s)	Sarah Baillon, Saquib Muhommad, Mangesh Marudkar
Journal title	International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 18, no 7, July 2003
Pages	pp 602-608
Keywords	Dementia ; Cognitive processes ; Evaluation ; Geriatric out-patients clinics ; Performance ; Leicester.
Annotation	The performance of two matched groups of patients at the Leicester Memory Clinic, 103 with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and 68 with vascular dementia (VaD), were compared on a battery of neuropsychological tests. After adjustment, the two groups differed significantly on the Graded Naming Test, AMIPB Complex design immediate and delayed recall, the Trail Making Test error score (Part B), and the Verbal Picture Description: the VaD group was superior in all tests. These findings support previous evidence that language function and non-verbal memory are selectively more impaired in AD. The better performance by VaD patients in the Trail Making Test (Part B) runs counter to previous suggestions that there is an excess of frontal executive dysfunction in this disorder. It may be that the test is more sensitive to the early impairment of concurrent manipulation of information in AD. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-030804219 A
Classmark	EA: DA: 4C: L6G: 5H: 8LEE
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