TY - JOUR
T1 - Progression of Senile Dementia of the Alzheimer Type on a Battery of Psychometric Tests
AU - Storandt, Martha
AU - Morris, John C.
AU - Rubin, Eugene H.
AU - Coben, Lawrence A.
AU - Berg, Leonard
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported, in part, by grant MH 31054 from the Na- tional Institute of Mental Health and grants AG 03991 and AG 05681 from the National Institute on Agmg.
PY - 1992/1/1
Y1 - 1992/1/1
N2 - This chapter describes progression of senile dementia of the alzheimer type on a battery of psychometric tests. Alzheimer's disease is a progressive, deteriorative disease. As described in the chapter, it typically first attacks the individual's ability to learn and remember new information, but as the disease progresses, a wide range of higher cortical functions are affected. The search for correlates of rate of deterioration in SDAT takes two general forms. The first focuses on risk factors. One commonly examined is age at onset of the disease. Other risk factors include concomitant features of the disease in its early stages that may be associated with more rapid decline. The chapter includes a description of attempts to identify correlates of progression (deterioration) on the battery of psychometric tests included in the longitudinal study. It differs in several important ways from the earlier reports from this same sample that focused on progression.
AB - This chapter describes progression of senile dementia of the alzheimer type on a battery of psychometric tests. Alzheimer's disease is a progressive, deteriorative disease. As described in the chapter, it typically first attacks the individual's ability to learn and remember new information, but as the disease progresses, a wide range of higher cortical functions are affected. The search for correlates of rate of deterioration in SDAT takes two general forms. The first focuses on risk factors. One commonly examined is age at onset of the disease. Other risk factors include concomitant features of the disease in its early stages that may be associated with more rapid decline. The chapter includes a description of attempts to identify correlates of progression (deterioration) on the battery of psychometric tests included in the longitudinal study. It differs in several important ways from the earlier reports from this same sample that focused on progression.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0166-4115(08)60937-1
DO - 10.1016/S0166-4115(08)60937-1
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:77956720598
SN - 0166-4115
VL - 89
SP - 207
EP - 226
JO - Advances in Psychology
JF - Advances in Psychology
IS - C
ER -