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Peter Fischer, MD, PhD; Gerald Gatterer, PhD; Alice Marterer, MD; Walter Danielczyk, MD

Arch Neurol. 1988;45(12):1341-1343.

Abstract
• Two psychometric tests designed to evaluate "verbal fluency" and "naming" as a measure of semantic memory were presented to 18 patients with Alzheimer's-type dementia, 16 other patients with multi-infarct dementia, and 14 age- matched control subjects. The diagnosis of multi-infarct dementia and Alzheimer's-type dementia was based on the commonly accepted criteria of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, ed 3. Although the patients with Alzheimer and multi-infarct dementias, respectively, suffered from a comparable degree of dementia (as determined by the Mini-Mental State examination), semantic memory was not specifically impaired in Alzheimer's-type dementia as opposed to multi-infarct dementia. In contrast semantic memory was correlated with the degree of dementia in both disease entities.

Author Affiliations
From the Neurological Institute, Vienna School of Medicine (Drs Fischer and Marterer); and the Psychological Service (Dr Gatterer), and Neurological Department (Dr Danielczyk), Geriatric Hospital Lainz, Vienna.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication June 20, 1988.

Reprint requests to Neurological Institute, Schwarzspanierstraβe 17, A-1090 Vienna, Austria (Dr Fischer).

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