Limitations in differentiating vascular dementia from Alzheimer's disease with brief cognitive tests Limitações em diferenciar demência vascular de doença de Alzheimer através de testes cognitivos breves

Limitations in differentiating vascular dementia from Alzheimer's disease with brief cognitive tests Limitações em diferenciar demência vascular de doença de Alzheimer através de testes cognitivos breves

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the diagnostic value of brief cognitive tests in differentiating vascular dementia (VaD) from Alzheimer's disease (AD). METHOD: Fifteen patients with mild VaD, 15 patients with mild probable AD and 30 healthy controls, matched for age, education and dementia severity,...

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Main Authors: Maria Niures P.S. Matioli, Paulo Caramelli
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Thieme Revinter Publicações 2010-04-01
Series:Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
Subjects:
doença de Alzheimer
demência vascular
teste do desenho do relógio
memória de evocação
diagnóstico
EXIT25
testes neuropsicológicos
fluência verbal
Alzheimer's disease
vascular dementia
clock drawing test
delayed recall
diagnosis
neuropsychological tests
verbal fluency
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