Bibliographic Details
| Title: |
Does Mount Vesuvius Indicate an Outbreak of Alzheimer's Disease? |
| Authors: |
Toepper, Max, Boedeker, Sebastian, Bauer, Eva, Westphal, Sina, Driessen, Martin, Beblo, Thomas |
| Source: |
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. Oct2014, Vol. 62 Issue 10, p1989-1991. 3p. 1 Graph. |
| Subjects: |
Alzheimer's disease diagnosis, Chi-squared test, Statistical correlation, Neuropsychological tests, T-test (Statistics), Predictive tests, Severity of illness index, Receiver operating characteristic curves, Descriptive statistics, Mann Whitney U Test |
| Abstract: |
The article reports on research which was conducted to investigate whether the Boston Naming Test could be useful in diagnosing the beginning of Alzheimer's disease related semantic dysfunction. Researchers evaluated 40 patients with Alzheimer's disease and 40 healthy control subjects.They found that the test was able to identify semantic dysfunction in patients with Alzheimer's disease. |
| Database: |
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection |
