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Dementia Assessment in African Americans
Published in Gwen Yeo, Linda A. Gerdner, Dolores Gallagher-Thompson, Ethnicity and the Dementias, 2018
Boston Naming Test is a 60-item instrument which assesses naming abilities (Kaplan, Goodglass, & Weintraub 1983). The test is composed of 60 line drawings of objects ranging from high-frequency vocabulary words (e.g., “tree”) to rare words (e.g. “abacus”) presented one at a time on cards to participants. Though it has been standardized for different ages, ethnic differences in performance have been reported (Fillenbaum, Heyman, Huber, Ganguli, & Unverzagt, 2001, Pedraza et al. 2009). Normative data for African American older adults taking the Boston Naming Test are currently available and highly recommended for clinical use (Lucas et al. 2005a).
Saccadic Eye Movements in Patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Longitudinal Study
Published in Journal of Motor Behavior, 2023
Müge Akkoyun, Koray Koçoğlu, Hatice Eraslan Boz, Pembe Keskinoğlu, Gülden Akdal
Episodic memory and visual memory were evaluated with Oktem Verbal Memory Processes Test (Oktem, 1992) and Wechsler Memory Scale-Revised (WMS-R) Visual Reproduction Subtest (Wechsler, 1987), respectively. Stroop Test (Stroop, 1935), Clock Drawing Test (Cezar et al., 2021; Dion et al., 2022; Rouleau et al., 1992), Letter Fluency test (initial letters F-A-S) (Heaton et al., 1993), and Semantic Fluency Test (Benton et al., 1978; Martin et al., 1994; Rosser & Hodges, 1994; St-Hilaire et al., 2016) was used for executive functions such as inhibition, planning, response initiation, categorization, maintaining and switching set, fluency, abstract thinking. ‘Visuospatial ability’ was evaluated using the simple copying task (Benton et al., 1978). The WMS-R digit span test (Groth-Marnat & Baker, 2003; Wechsler, 1987; Weintraub et al., 2009) was used for attentional processes such as verbal attention, immediate attention span, sustained attention and working memory. Boston Naming Test (Kaplan et al., 1983) was used to measure naming ability. The Turkish version of the revised MMSE (Folstein et al., 1975; Keskinoglu et al., 2009) was used to evaluate the general cognitive status of the participants. Depressive symptoms of participants were evaluated on the Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) (Yesavage et al., 1982).
Initial Adaptation of the General Cognitive Assessment Battery by Cognifit™ for Bulgarian Older Adults
Published in Experimental Aging Research, 2022
Antonia Yaneva, Radka Massaldjieva, Nonka Mateva
As for the relationship between CERAD subtests and each of the GCAB cognitive domains, there were significant correlations of GCAB tests with J2. Modified Boston Naming Test; J4. Word List Learning; J7. Word List Recognition; J5. Constructional Praxis; and J8. Constructional Praxis Recall. The strongest correlations were found between J4. Word List Learning (CERAD) and Hand-Eye Coordination (GCAB); as well as between J7. Word List Recognition Discriminability (CERAD) and Contextual Memory and Working Memory (GCAB). Moderate correlations were observed between GCAB and CERAD subtest scores. Correlation coefficients ranged from 0.67 for Working Memory to 0.47 for Auditory Short-Term Memory when comparing GCAB scores with the scores on the corresponding tests in CERAD (Table 5). We found statistically significant negative moderate correlation between CERAD subtest J7. Word List Recognition and inhibition by GCAB (Spearman’s r = −.514, p = .02).
Exploring the effects of verb and noun treatment on verb phrase production in primary progressive aphasia: A series of single case experimental design studies
Published in Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 2022
Cathleen Taylor-Rubin, Lyndsey Nickels, Karen Croot
When first referred to the PPA clinic, two months prior to the study, MSv was a 71-year old woman, with a 3-year history of gradual speech and language deterioration. She lived with her husband and since retiring from her career as a real estate agent several years earlier, had remained physically and socially active, participated in computer mediated art and was engaged in child-care for her grandchildren, at least one day per week. She was independent in all activities of daily living. Her verbal expression was fluent, grammatical and well-articulated with marked lexical retrieval impairment. Boston Naming Test (Kaplan et al., 2001) score of 19/60 on initial assessment eighteen months prior to the study, indicated severe lexical retrieval impairment, with further decline to 14/60, two months prior to the study. Two months later, upon entering the current study, further assessment of language domains occurred, and results are reported in Table 2.