2012/06/19 by Irene Beck, A. Gagneux-Zurbriggen, Manfred Berres +2 · 51 citations
Medicine · Neuroscience · Psychology · #Alzheimer's disease research and treatments #Audiology #California Verbal Learning Test #Clinical psychology #Cognition #Dementia #Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research #Disease #Episodic memory #Medicine #Memory and Neural Mechanisms #Neuropsychological assessment #Neuropsychological test #Neuropsychology #Psychiatry #Psychology #Test (biology) #Verbal learning #Verbal memory
paper · doi:10.1093/arclin/acs056
published in Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology 27(5), 510-519 (Oxford University Press)
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Episodic memory is affected early in the course of dementia. Two well-established tests to assess verbal episodic memory functioning are the Word List task from the Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer's disease Neuropsychological Assessment Battery (CERAD-NAB) and the California Verbal Learning Test (CVLT). In clinical and/or research settings, patients are typically administered either one or the other test, making statistical comparisons difficult. This study aimed to (i) compare the z-scores of these two tests in patients with MCI and different types of dementia and (ii) establish formulae to transform CERAD-NAB scores into CVLT scores and vice versa. Sixty-five patients completed both tests for the first time and within 10 days of each other. Pearson correlation coefficients indicated that the two tests assess similar aspects of episodic memory and that the CVLT is more sensitive to subtle episodic memory impairments. Finally, conversion formulae are provided and their implementation illustrated.