The utility of the semantic verbal fluency test in diagnosis of dementia;Utilidad del test de fluencia verbal semantica en el diagnostico de demencia

Revista de Neurologia

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 709-714

  Carnero Pardo, C ^a,c   Lendinez Gonzalez A ^b  

^a HOSPITAL TORRECÁRDENAS   (Spain)

^b Psicologa   (Spain)

^c NONE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Dementia; Diagnostic test; Neuropsychological evaluation; Semantic fluency; Utility in diagnosis; Verbal fluency

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; DEMENTIA; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; SCORING SYSTEM; SEMANTICS; VERBAL MEMORY;

EID: 0033621250     PISSN: 02100010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.33588/rn.2908.99233     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. Lezak MD. Neuropsychological assessment. 3 ed. New York: Oxford University Press; 1996.
2. Spreen O, Strauss E. A compendium of neuropsychological test: administration, norms, and commentary. New York: Oxford University Press; 1991.
3. Rosser A, Hodges JR. Initial letter and semantic category fluency in Alzheimer's disease, Huntington's disease, and Progressive Supranuclear Palsy. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 1994; 57: 1389-94.
4. Rosen W. Verbal fluency in aging and dementia. J Clin Neuropsychol 1980; 2: 135-46.
5. Mickanin J, Grossman M, Onishi K, et al. Verbal and nonverbal fluency in patients with probable Alzheimer's disease. Neuropsychology 1994; 8: 385-94.
6. Monsch AU, Bondi MW, Butters N, et al. Comparisons of verbal fluency tasks in the detection of dementia of the Alzheimer type. Arch Neurol 1992; 49: 1253-8.
7. Monsch AU, Seifritz E, Taylor KI, et al. Category fluency is also predominantly affected in Swiss Alzheimer's disease patients. Acta Neurol Scand 1997; 95: 81-4.
8. Morris JC, Heyman A, Mohs RC, et al. The Consortium to establish a registry for Alzheimer's disease (CERAD). Part I. Clinical and neuropsychological assessment of Alzheimer's disease. Neurology 1989; 39: 1159-65.
9. Peña-Casanova J. Programa integrado de exploración neuropsicológica, Test Barcelona. Manual. Barcelona: Masson; 1990.
10. Solomon PR, Hirschoff A, Relin M, et al. A 7 minute neurocognitive screening battery highly sensitive to Alzheimer's disease. Arch Neurol 1998; 55: 349-55.
11. Mann VA, Sasanuma S, Sakuma N, et al. Sex differences in cognitive abilities: a cross-cultural perspective. Neuropsychology 1990; 28: 1063-77.
12. Ganguli M, Ratcliff G, Huff FJ, et al. Effect of age, gender and education on cognitive test in a rural elderly community sample: norms from the Monongahela independent elderly survey. Neuroepidemiology 1991; 10: 42-52.
13. Roselli M, Ardila A. Neuropsychological assessment in illiterates II. Language and praxis abilities. Brain Cogn 1990; 12: 281-96.
14. Brucki SMD, Malheiros SMF, Bertolucci PHT. Verbal fluency test performance and educational levels. Neurobiol Aging 1998; 19: S12.
15. Carnero C, Lendínez A, Maestre J, Zunzunegui MV. Fluencia verbal semántica en pacientes neurológicos sin demencia y bajo nivel educativo. Rev Neurol 1999; 28: 858-62.
16. Esteba-Castillo S, Benito MM, Böhm P, Meza M, Peña-Casanova. Evocación categorial semántica: prueba de screening para demencias tipo Alzheimer. Neurologia 1998; 13: 473.
17. American Psychiatric Association. Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders. DSM-IV. 4 ed. Washington (DC): American Psychiatric Association; 1994.
18. Mungas D, Marshall SC, Weldon M, et al. Age and education correction of Mini-Mental state examination for English and Spanish-speaking elderly. Neurology 1996; 46: 700-6.
19. Kraemer EC, Moritz DJ, Yesavage J. Adjusting Mini-Mental state examination scores for age and educational level to screen for dementia: correcting bias or reducing validity? Int Psychogeriatrics 1998; 10: 43-51.
20. Nitrini R, Caramelli P, Herrera E, et al. Diagnosis of dementia in illiterate elderly subjects. Neurology 1999; 52 (Suppl 2): A435.
21. Nelson H, O'Connell A. Dementia: the estimation of premorbid intelligence using the new adult reading test. Cortex 1978; 14: 234-44.
22. Beardsall K, Huppert FA. Improvement in NART word reading in demented and normal older persons using the Cambridge contextual reading test. J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 1994; 16: 232-42.
23. González Montalvo JI. Creación y validación de un test de lectura para el diagnóstico de deterioro mental en el anciano. Tesis Doctoral. Madrid: Universidad Complutense; 1991.
24. Pérez SA, Schlottmann RS, Holloway JA, et al. Measurement of premorbid intellectual ability following brain injury. Arch Clin Neuropsychol 1996; 11: 491-501.
25. Jaeschke R, Guyatt GH, Sackett DL for the Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group. Users' guides to the medical literature. III. How to use an article about a diagnostic test. B. What are the results and will they help me in caring for my patients? JAMA 1994; 271: 703-7.
26. Folstein MF, Folstein SE, McHugh PR. Mini-Mental State: a practical method for grading the cognitive state of patients for the clinician. J Psychiatr Res 1975; 12: 189-98.
27. Buschke H, Kuslansky G, Stewart WF, et al. Screening for dementia with the Memory impairment screen. Neurology 1999; 52: 231-8.