Monsch, Andreas U. U and Seifritz, E. and Taylor, Kirsten I. and Ermini-Fünfschilling, D. and Staehelin, Hannes B. and Spiegel, René. (1997) Category fluency is also predominantly affected in Swiss Alzheimer's disease patients. Acta Neurologica Scandinavica, 95 (2). pp. 81-84.
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Abstract
OBJECTIVES: To establish the comparative efficacy to differentiate between Swiss patients with dementia of the Alzheimer type (DAT) and elderly normal control subjects (NC) on two different verbal fluency tasks: category fluency and letter fluency. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Fifty Swiss German DAT patients in the early stages of the disease and 50 matched normal control subjects were compared on letter and category fluency tasks. RESULTS: DAT patients exhibited an overproportional impairment on category fluency as compared with letter fluency. Receiver operating characteristic curves (ROC) showed that category fluency correctly classified a significantly higher number of DAT patients and NC subjects (84%) than letter fluency (70%). CONCLUSION: As similar findings have been described for English-speaking DAT patients, we conclude that deficiencies in category fluency are a general phenomenon, reflecting impaired structures of semantic knowledge occurring early in the course of Alzheimer's disease.
| Faculties and Departments: | 07 Faculty of Psychology > Departement Psychologie |
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| UniBasel Contributors: | Monsch, Andreas U. U and Staehelin, Hannes B. and Spiegel, René and Taylor, Kirsten |
| Item Type: | Article, refereed |
| Article Subtype: | Research Article |
| Publisher: | Wiley |
| ISSN: | 0001-6314 |
| e-ISSN: | 1600-0404 |
| Note: | Publication type according to Uni Basel Research Database: Journal article |
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| Last Modified: | 10 Nov 2017 10:32 |
| Deposited On: | 10 Nov 2017 10:32 |
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