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O4‐01‐07: Comprehensive neuropsychological assessment can differentiate between adults with MCI who develop Alzheimer's dementia from those who recover
Author(s) -
Summers Mathew,
Saunders Nichole
Publication year - 2011
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.2011.05.1970
Subject(s) - neuropsychology , dementia , neuropsychological assessment , psychology , cognition , discriminant function analysis , audiology , clinical psychology , psychiatry , medicine , disease , statistics , mathematics
Previous studies indicate that while mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is associated with elevated rates of conversion to dementia at the group level, heterogeneity of outcome is common at the individual level. There is a need to identify the characteristics of patients with MCI that predict stability of deficits, reversion to normal cognitive functioning and progression to AD, or another form of dementia. The aim of this study was to determine whether baseline neuropsychological measures predict outcome for older adults with MCI