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ArticleGeriatrics (Basel, Switzerland)2023

The Differential Role of Executive Apathy in Alzheimer's Disease Dementia, Mild Cognitive Impairment and Healthy Cognitive Ageing.

Michalis Mougias, Ion N Beratis, Kleio Moustaka, Panagiotis Alexopoulos, Konstantinos Assimakopoulos

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Article in Geriatrics (Basel, Switzerland), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Apathy Associated with Alzheimer's Disease.Current Alzheimer research · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Michalis MougiasAlzheimer's Center, "Nestor" Greek Psychogeriatric Association, 22, Ioanni Drossopoulou Street, 112 57 Athens, Greece.
Ion N BeratisAlzheimer's Center, "Nestor" Greek Psychogeriatric Association, 22, Ioanni Drossopoulou Street, 112 57 Athens, Greece.
Kleio MoustakaAlzheimer's Center, "Nestor" Greek Psychogeriatric Association, 22, Ioanni Drossopoulou Street, 112 57 Athens, Greece.
Panagiotis AlexopoulosDepartment of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Patras, 265 04 Patras, Greece.
Konstantinos AssimakopoulosDepartment of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Patras, 265 04 Patras, Greece.
The American College of Greece · GRGreek Association of Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders · GRTechnical University of Munich · DEUniversity of Patras · GR

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The objective of the present work was to compare the levels of executive, emotional, and initiation apathy in individuals with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), mild Alzheimer's disease dementia (ADD), and cognitively intact healthy controls (HCs). Fifty-two patients with mild ADD, 40 individuals with MCI, and 37 cognitively intact individuals were included in the current study. The participants were consecutive visitors to the Outpatient Memory Clinic of "Nestor" Alzheimer's Center. The symptoms of apathy were measured with the dimensional apathy scale. Analyses showed that ADD patients had significantly higher degrees of executive, emotional, initiation, and overall apathy compared with both the MCI group and the HCs. Additionally, a significant difference was observed in the dimension of executive apathy between individuals with MCI and the HCs. In conclusion, the dimension of executive apathy was the most sensitive measure regarding the differentiation of individuals with mild ADD or MCI and HCs. Hence, detailed evaluation of executive apathy in older individuals referred to a memory clinic may provide useful information contributing to their diagnostic categorization and to the differentiation between neurocognitive disorders and healthy cognitive ageing.

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Alzheimer’s diseasedimensional apathy scaleemotional apathyexecutive apathyinitiation apathymild cognitive impairment

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PMID36960993
PMCPMC10037581
OpenAlexW4327596704

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