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P2‐196: More Behavioral Symptoms May be Associated with Language Mixing in Multilingual Alzheimer's Disease Patients
Author(s) -
Liu Yi-Chien,
Meguro Kenichi,
Fuh Jong-Ling,
Yip Ping-Keung
Publication year - 2016
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.2016.06.1363
Subject(s) - dementia , neuropsychology , disease , medicine , neuropsychiatry , set (abstract data type) , confounding , cognition , psychology , clinical psychology , psychiatry , computer science , programming language
ter each task, using a modified version of the Anosognosia Questionnaire for Dementia and a self-reported questionnaire respectively. Two-way repeated measure ANOVAs were applied separately for each experiment (reaction time and memory). Results:For both types of task, the results indicate that the emotional state of the participants was similar before performing the tasks and that only the failure conditions induced a negative mood state. Additionally, regarding the level of awareness, therewere no significant differences after the reaction time tasks. For the memory tasks, there was an interaction between time and condition (F(1,21)1⁄410.24, p1⁄4.004). To investigate the interaction, pairwise comparisons were performed and revealed a greater awareness of symptoms only after the memory task performed in the failure condition. Conclusions:To the best of our knowledge, this study is the first study exploring experimentally the impact of mood on anosognosia in AD. The results showed an improvement of awareness of symptoms after negative mood induction, but only when the task used in the SFM was memory-based.