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| Dementia in left brain damage | | Author(s) | Manuel Sanchez, Ellen Grober, D Peter Birkett |
| Journal title | Clinical Gerontologist, vol 17, no 4, 1997 |
| Pages | pp 13-22 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Aphasia ; Evaluation. |
| Annotation | The relationship between dementia and aphasia is discussed. Left brain damage may produce aphasia mimicking or complicating dementia. Problems in the use of current non-verbal tests of intellectual function in aphasic patients are described. The Spatial Location Test is a non-verbal test on which aphasic patients have been shown to perform as well as normal controls. The Mental Status Questionnaire of Kahn, Goldfarb and Peck is an established dementia test that is primarily verbal, without any items demanding visual or motor ability. The original Spatial Location Test was modified to make it more lenient to low scorers. Performances on the modified Spatial Location Test, and on the Mental Status Questionnaire were compared in two groups, each likely to include demented subjects. One group had left brain lesions, the other did not. The results suggest that the Spatial Location Test may be useful in testing for dementia in patients with left brain damage. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-971204204 A |
| Classmark | EA: EFA: 4C |
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