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P4‐091: The use of profanity during letter fluency tasks in frontotemporal dementia syndromes and Alzheimer's disease
Author(s) -
Ringman John M.,
Kwon Eunice,
Rotko Carol,
Mendez Mario F.,
Lu Po H.
Publication year - 2009
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.2009.04.860
Subject(s) - frontotemporal dementia , psychology , corticobasal degeneration , dementia , verbal fluency test , audiology , primary progressive aphasia , fluency , progressive supranuclear palsy , semantic dementia , clinical psychology , disease , medicine , psychiatry , cognition , neuropsychology , mathematics education
between CABs and AD treatment was established by searching medication trials with a preand at least one post-treatment CAB. Methods: Studies were identified through a search of the MEDLINE, PsychINFO, and PubMed databases. Each CAB website was also examined for relevant publications and test developers were contacted for any relevant publications. CABS included the Cognitive Drug Research (CDR), CANTAB, CNTB, Cogtest, Cogstate-CT, CNS Vital Signs, Headminder, Integneuro, Mindstreams Neurotrax, Neurocog Trials BAC, Automated Neuropsychological Assessment Metrics and the Penn CNP. When possible, specific tests from each CAB were extracted and grouped into domains of neuropsychological function (processing speed, working memory, etc.). These domains were then collapsed further (i.e., verbal learningþ visual learningþ face memory1⁄4memory) and effect sizes (ES) were calculated. Results: Analysis of intervention effects on cognitive status (across different medication types) revealed a large overall effect size (d1⁄4-0.84, 95% CI1⁄4-1.0