Applicability of the CERAD neuropsychological battery to Brazilian elderly
There is a limited choice of psychometric tests for Portuguese speaking people which have been evaluated in well defined groups. A Portuguese version of CERAD neuropsychological battery was applied to a control group of healthy elderly (CG) (mean age 75.1 years/ education 7.9 years), 31 Alzheimer di...
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| author | Paulo Henrique Ferreira Bertolucci Ivan Hideyo Okamoto Sonia Maria Dozzi Brucki Marilena Ochini Siviero João Toniolo Neto Luis Roberto Ramos |
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| description | There is a limited choice of psychometric tests for Portuguese speaking people which have been evaluated in well defined groups. A Portuguese version of CERAD neuropsychological battery was applied to a control group of healthy elderly (CG) (mean age 75.1 years/ education 7.9 years), 31 Alzheimer disease (AD) patients classified by clinical dementia rating (CDR) as CDR1 (71.4/ 9.0) and 12 AD patients CDR 2 (74.1/ 9.3). Cut-off points were: verbal fluency-11; modified Boston naming-12; Mini-mental State Examination (MMSE) -26; word list memory-13; constructional praxis-9; word recall-3, word recognition-7; praxis recall-4. There was a significant difference between CG and AD-CDR1 (p<0.0001) for all tests. There was a less significant difference for constructional praxis and no difference for Boston naming. Comparison between AD-CDR1 and AD-CDR2 showed difference only for MMSE, verbal fluency, and Boston naming. The performance of CG was similar to that of a US control sample with comparable education level. These results indicate that this adaptation may be useful for the diagnosis of mild dementia but further studies are needed to define cut-offs for illiterates/low education people. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-064f4ab2ecff4c2eacf0377618689a6e2025-08-20T03:54:16ZengThieme Revinter PublicaçõesArquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria1678-42272001-09-01593A53253610.1590/S0004-282X2001000400009Applicability of the CERAD neuropsychological battery to Brazilian elderlyPaulo Henrique Ferreira Bertolucci0Ivan Hideyo Okamoto1Sonia Maria Dozzi Brucki2Marilena Ochini Siviero3João Toniolo Neto4Luis Roberto Ramos5Universidade Federal de São PauloUniversidade Federal de São PauloUniversidade Federal de São PauloUniversidade Federal de São PauloUniversidade Federal de São PauloUniversidade Federal de São PauloThere is a limited choice of psychometric tests for Portuguese speaking people which have been evaluated in well defined groups. A Portuguese version of CERAD neuropsychological battery was applied to a control group of healthy elderly (CG) (mean age 75.1 years/ education 7.9 years), 31 Alzheimer disease (AD) patients classified by clinical dementia rating (CDR) as CDR1 (71.4/ 9.0) and 12 AD patients CDR 2 (74.1/ 9.3). Cut-off points were: verbal fluency-11; modified Boston naming-12; Mini-mental State Examination (MMSE) -26; word list memory-13; constructional praxis-9; word recall-3, word recognition-7; praxis recall-4. There was a significant difference between CG and AD-CDR1 (p<0.0001) for all tests. There was a less significant difference for constructional praxis and no difference for Boston naming. Comparison between AD-CDR1 and AD-CDR2 showed difference only for MMSE, verbal fluency, and Boston naming. The performance of CG was similar to that of a US control sample with comparable education level. These results indicate that this adaptation may be useful for the diagnosis of mild dementia but further studies are needed to define cut-offs for illiterates/low education people.http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-282X2001000400009&tlng=enCERADneuropsychologyAlzheimer disease |
| spellingShingle | Paulo Henrique Ferreira Bertolucci Ivan Hideyo Okamoto Sonia Maria Dozzi Brucki Marilena Ochini Siviero João Toniolo Neto Luis Roberto Ramos Applicability of the CERAD neuropsychological battery to Brazilian elderly Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria CERAD neuropsychology Alzheimer disease |
| title | Applicability of the CERAD neuropsychological battery to Brazilian elderly |
| title_full | Applicability of the CERAD neuropsychological battery to Brazilian elderly |
| title_fullStr | Applicability of the CERAD neuropsychological battery to Brazilian elderly |
| title_full_unstemmed | Applicability of the CERAD neuropsychological battery to Brazilian elderly |
| title_short | Applicability of the CERAD neuropsychological battery to Brazilian elderly |
| title_sort | applicability of the cerad neuropsychological battery to brazilian elderly |
| topic | CERAD neuropsychology Alzheimer disease |
| url | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-282X2001000400009&tlng=en |
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