Applicability of the CERAD neuropsychological battery to Brazilian elderly
| Autor: | Paulo Henrique Ferreira Bertolucci, Ivan Hideyo Okamoto, Sonia Maria Dozzi Brucki, Marilena Ochini Siviero, João Toniolo Neto, Luis Roberto Ramos |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2001 |
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| Zdroj: | Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria, Vol 59, Iss 3A, Pp 532-536 (2001) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 1678-4227 0004-282X |
| DOI: | 10.1590/S0004-282X2001000400009 |
| Popis: | There is a limited choice of psychometric tests for Portuguese speaking people which have been evaluated in well defined groups. A Portuguese version of CERAD neuropsychological battery was applied to a control group of healthy elderly (CG) (mean age 75.1 years/ education 7.9 years), 31 Alzheimer disease (AD) patients classified by clinical dementia rating (CDR) as CDR1 (71.4/ 9.0) and 12 AD patients CDR 2 (74.1/ 9.3). Cut-off points were: verbal fluency-11; modified Boston naming-12; Mini-mental State Examination (MMSE) -26; word list memory-13; constructional praxis-9; word recall-3, word recognition-7; praxis recall-4. There was a significant difference between CG and AD-CDR1 (p |
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