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| Publication Status: | published |
| Title: | The 10-word learning task in the differential diagnosis of early Alzheimer's disease and elderly depression: a cross-sectional pilot study |
| Authors: | Dierckx, Eva
Engelborghs, Sebastiaan
De Raedt, Rudy
De Deyn, Peter Paul
D'haenens, Ellen
Verté, Dominique
Ponjaert-Kristoffersen, Ingrid |
| Issue Date: | 2011 |
| Host Document: | Aging & Mental Health vol:15 issue:1 pages:113-121 |
| Abstract: | Objectives: Identification of early Alzheimer’s disease (AD) has become very important. Episodic memory tasks
appear to have predictive power for indicating early AD. Deficits in encoding and storage processes that are
characteristic of AD, however, must be distinguished from non-AD deficits that can also affect memory,
including difficulties that may be present in depression. This pilot study was set up to ascertain whether a 10-
word-list-learning task (delayed recognition and rate of forgetting) may be useful in making the differentiation
between mild AD and depression.
Method: A Dutch version of Rey’s auditory verbal learning test was administered to 36 mild AD patients, 41
depressed patients, and 47 healthy controls. Data were analyzed in a cross-sectional manner.
Results: Receiver operating characteristic analyses showed that for differentiating mild AD and depression, both
delayed recognition and percentage of forgetting have sufficient diagnostic accuracy.
Conclusion: Percentage of forgetting had the highest diagnostic accuracy for differentiating mild AD and
depressed patients and may be useful in the early detection of AD. |
| URI: | http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a927613040~db=all~jumptype=rss |
| ISSN: | 1364–6915 online
1360-7863 |
| Publication Code: | IT |
| Appears in Collections: | PDC | Centrum voor psychodiagnostiek
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