Enhanced cued recall has a high utility as a screening test in the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment in Turkish people | Zendy

Esen Saka | Zendy; Ebru Mihçi | Zendy; Mehmet Akif Topçuoğlu | Zendy; Sevin Balkan | Zendy

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Enhanced cued recall has a high utility as a screening test in the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment in Turkish people

Author(s) -

Esen Saka,

Ebru Mihçi,

Mehmet Akif Topçuoğlu,

Sevin Balkan

Publication year - 2006

Publication title -

archives of clinical neuropsychology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.909

H-Index - 98

eISSN - 1873-5843

pISSN - 0887-6177

DOI - 10.1016/j.acn.2006.08.007

Subject(s) - dementia , recall , turkish , cued recall , confidence interval , audiology , psychology , receiver operating characteristic , california verbal learning test , cognition , alzheimer's disease , population , disease , medicine , test (biology) , neuropsychological test , verbal learning , clinical psychology , psychiatry , neuropsychology , free recall , cognitive psychology , biology , paleontology , linguistics , philosophy , environmental health

Enhanced cued recall (ECR) is highly sensitive and specific in discrimination of demented from non-demented elderly persons. The nature of the test promises that it can be applicable to subjects in different cultures and education level. We studied the utility of the test in a Turkish population. Eighty consecutive cases with dementia or mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and 33 elderly controls were studied. The utility of ECR was high in discriminating dementia from controls (area under curve (AUC)) of the ROC curve: 0.907 (95% confidence interval (CI): 0.830-0.953 for total recall), Alzheimer's disease from controls (AUC: 0.990 (95%CI: 0.934-0.998 for total recall)) and moderate (AUC: 0.625 (95%CI: 0.545-0.812 for third free recall)) in discriminating MCI from controls. Education did not affect the utility of the test. We conclude that ECR is a valuable test in assessment of elderly Turkish patients with a complaint of memory impairment.

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