ArticleJournal of neurology2020
Serial position effects rapidly distinguish Alzheimer's from frontotemporal dementia.
Article in Journal of neurology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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- Influence of testing language and aging on verbal list memory in deaf American Sign Language-English bilinguals.Neuropsychology · 2026Article
- Language dominance effects on verbal list memory in older Spanish-English bilinguals.Neuropsychology · 2026Article
- A systematic review of cognitive and behavioral tools to differentiate behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia from other conditions.PCN reports : psychiatry and clinical neurosciences · 2024Review
- Disruption of the serial position effect as an early marker of Alzheimer's disease in Spanish-English bilinguals.Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society : JINS · 2024Article
- Episodic Memory in Amnestic Behavioral Frontotemporal Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease.Journal of Alzheimer's disease reports · 2023Article
- Delayed primacy recall performance predictsAlzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands)Article
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Abstract
objectiveA significant proportion of patients with behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) show memory impairments similar to patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD), making them prone to misdiagnosis in early disease stages. Our objective was to establish a rapid and efficient memory measure that enhances discrimination between patients with dementia due to Alzheimer's disease and amnestic presentations of behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia.
methodWord list learning data of patients with diagnoses of AD and both amnestic and non-amnestic presentations of bvFTD were analysed. The overall recall rate and the relative contributions of the first two (primacy items) and last two words (recency items) to recall performance were compared between groups.
resultsOverall recall rate was indistinguishable between patients with AD and amnestic bvFTD. However, AD patients' recall was mostly driven by recency items, whereas amnestic bvFTD patients' performance was mostly driven by primacy items.
conclusionWe conclude that obtaining a simple recency dominance index from a single, 15-item word list memory trial can help discriminate patients with AD from patients with bvFTD, even if they present with similarly severe memory impairment.
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