J Korean Neuropsychiatr Assoc.  2000 Jan;39(1):167-182.

A Neurocognitive Assessment: Mild Dementia of the Alzheimer Type, Questionable Dementia, and Non-Demented Elderly Women

• Lee EH
• An SK
• Oh BH
• Kim KH
• Lee YH
• Ohrr HC
• Kim SM

Abstract

The objective of this study is to differentiate the mild dementia of Alzheimer type from the questionable dementia and non-demented elderly using the neurocognitive assessment. Subjects of 28 women who were registered to kwangju Community Mental Health Center were as follows: 14 non-demented, 9 questionable dementia, 5 mild dementia of Alzheimer type. The diagnosis were made using DSM-IV, Clinical Dementia Rating Scale. The neurocognitive functions were assessed with following test tools 1) attention: Digit span, Visual span, Continuous attention; 2) memory: Logical memroy, Verbal paired associates-easy/hard 3) visual perception and visuospatial ability: Visual recognition test, Construction; and 4) language: Comprehension and Aphasia severity rating scale; 5) higher cortical function: Hypothesis formation, Perseveration, Similarity, Judgment, and Go-No-Go test. Group differences were analyzed with one way ANOVA test in SPSS 8.0 for win and LSD method as post-hoc analysis. The questionable dementia group showed significant difference in Verbal paired associateseasy pair, Construction, Aphasia severity rating scale and Similarity from the non-demented normal control group but showed no difference from the mildly demented group. These results suggest that the questionable dementia is actually very early or very mild stage of dementia of the Alzheimer type.

Keyword

Neurocognitive assessment; Dementia of the Alzheimer type; Questionable dementia

MeSH Terms

Aged*
Aphasia
Comprehension
Dementia*
Diagnosis
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
Female
Gwangju
Humans
Judgment
Logic
Lysergic Acid Diethylamide
Memory
Mental Health
Visual Perception
Lysergic Acid Diethylamide