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P1–130: Neurophysiology of perceptual and attentional deficits in Alzheimer's disease
Author(s) -
Kavcic Voyko,
Fernandez-Romero Roberto,
Duffy Charles J.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
alzheimer's and dementia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.713
H-Index - 118
eISSN - 1552-5279
pISSN - 1552-5260
DOI - 10.1016/j.jalz.2006.05.506
Subject(s) - audiology , psychology , neuroscience , perception , electroencephalography , evoked potential , neurophysiology , visual evoked potentials , medicine
practitioners’ and geriatrician’s evaluation was 12 months); there was no statistically significant difference between the two groups (suspects and nonsuspects) in relation to age (p 0.55) and schooling (p 0.27); 29 (19%) were classified as suspects, and 24 of them underwent neuropsychological evaluation. Twenty-one had neuropsychologically confirmed cognitive impairment. No mention to cognitive impairment was found in the None of the medical (general practitioners’ files of any of these 21 cases (neither in 25 cases without cognitive impairment). Conclusion: The prevalence of cognitive impairment in the elderly of this study is similar to the prevalence reported in hospital-sets by other authors. Our findings reinforce the knowledge that general practitioners do not usually screen for cognitive impairment in their working sets. In many countries, elderly people still get medical assessment only in general practice sets.