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Detection and Staging of Dementia in Alzheimer's Disease

Use of the Neuropsychological Measures Developed for the Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer's Disease

Kathleen A. Welsh, PhD; Nelson Butters, PhD; James P. Hughes, MS; Richard C. Mohs, PhD; Albert Heyman, MD

Arch Neurol. 1992;49(5):448-452.


Abstract



• Our earlier studies using the Consortium to Establish a Registry of Alzheimer's Disease neuropsychological battery showed that delayed recall was a highly sensitive indicator of early Alzheimer's disease. None of the learning and memory measures in the battery were found to be useful in staging the severity of this form of dementia. This study explores the nonmemory functions (fluency, naming, and praxis) of the Consortium to Establish a Registry of Alzheimer's Disease battery and asks whether performance on any of these measures adds to the detection of early Alzheimer's disease or is sensitive to the later progression of the illness. We stratified patients with this disease according to severity (mild, moderate, severe), and compared them with age-, education-, and gender-matched control subjects (group N =49 each). Multivariate procedures and cutting scores were used to determine the efficacy of the various measures in distinguishing between the cases and control subjects. Impairment of delayed recall was again found to be the best discriminator for detecting mild cases of Alzheimer's disease. Confrontation naming was the only nonmemory factor that assisted in this discrimination. For staging the illness, a combination of measures including fluency, praxis, and recognition memory best differentiated cases with mild dementia from those with either moderate or severe stages of disease. Measures of delayed recall quickly "bottomed out" in the patients with Alzheimer's disease and proved of little value in staging the disorder. These findings are consistent with the reported pathologic progression of the illness and suggest that whereas delayed recall memory is a highly sensitive indicator of Alzheimer's disease, lexical-semantic processing and visuospatial functions are better determinants of the progressive course of this illness.



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From the Joseph and Kathleen Bryan Alzheimer's Disease Research Center and Departments of Psychiatry (Dr Welsh) and Medicine, Division of Neurology (Dr Heyman), Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC; Psychology Service, Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Department of Psychiatry University of California, San Diego (Dr Butters); Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle (Mr Hughes); and Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY (Dr Mohs).


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Accepted for publication December 6, 1991.

Reprint requests to Box 3503, Joseph and Kathleen Bryan Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710 (Dr Welsh).



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