A comparison of memory and executive functions in Alzheimer disease and the frontal variant of frontotemporal dementia;Comparación entre memoria y funciones ejecutivas en la enfermedad de Alzheimer y la variante frontal de la demencia frontotemporal

Psicothema

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 424-429

  Sebastián, María Victoria ^a   Hernández Gil, Laura ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGY; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 77956304765     PISSN: 02149915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. Baddeley, A.D. (1986). Working Memory. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.
2. Baddeley, A.D., Eysenck, M.W., & Anderson, M.C. (2009) Memory. Hove: Psychology Press.
3. Belleville, S., Peretz, I., & Malenfant, D. (1996). Examination of the working memory components in normal aging and in dementia of the Alzheimer Type. Neuropsychologia, 34,195-207.
4. Collette, F., Amieva, H., Adam, S., Hogge, M., Van Der Linden, M., Fabrigoule, C., & Salmon, E. (2007). Comparison of inhibitory functioning in mild Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia. Cortex, 43, 866-874.
5. Dannenbaum, S.E., Parkinson, S.R., & Inman, V.W. (1988). Shortterm forgetting: Comparisons between patients with dementia of the Alzheimer type, depressed and normal elderly. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 5, 213-233.
6. Della Sala, S., Baddeley, A.D., Papagno, C., & Spinnler, H. (1995). Dualtask paradigm: A means to examine the central executive. In Grafman, K.J., Holyoak, K.J., & Boller, F. (eds.): Structure and functions of the human prefrontal cortex: Special issue of Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 769, 161-172.
7. Folstein, M.F., Folstein, S.E., & McHugh, P.R. (1975). 'Mini-mental state'. A practical method for grading the cognitive state of patients for the clinician. Journal of Psychiatry Research, 12, 189-198.
8. Giovagnoli, A.R., Erbetta, A., Reati, F., & Bugiani, O. (2008). Differential neuropsychological patterns of frontal variant frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease in a study of diagnostic concordance. Neuropsicologia, 46, 1495-1504.
9. Grossman, M. (2002). Frontotemporal dementia: A review. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 8, 566-583.
10. Jurado, M.B., & Rosselli, M. (2007). The elusive nature of executive functions: A review of our current understanding. Neuropshycohology Review, 17, 213-233.
11. Kirk, R.E. (1982). Experimental design. Monterrey, California: Brooks/ Cole (p. 83).
12. Kopelman, M.D. (1985). Rates of forgetting in Alzheimer type dementia and Korsakoff's syndrome. Neuropsychology, 23, 623-638.
13. The Lund & Manchester Groups (1994). Clinical and neuropathological criteria for frontotemporal dementia. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, 57, 416-418.
14. MacPherson, S.E., Della Sala, S., Logie, R.H., & Wilcock, G.K. (2007). Specific AD impairment in concurrent performance of two memory tasks. Cortex, 48, 858-865.
15. McKhann, G.M., Albert, M.S., Grossman, M., Miller, B., Dickson, D., & Trojanoski, J.Q. (2001). Clinical and pathological diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia. Archives of Neurology, 58, 1803-1809.
16. McKhann, G., Drachmann, D., Folstein, M., Katzman, R., Price, D., & Stadlan, E.M. (1984). Clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease: Report of the NINCDS-ADRDA Work Group under the auspices of Department of Health and Human Services Task Force on Alzheimer's Disease. Neurology, 34, 939-944.
17. Neary, D., Snowdown, J.S., Gustafson, L., Passant, U., Stuss, D., Black, S., Freedman, M., Kertesz, A., Robert, P.H., Albert, M., Boone, K., Miller, B.L., Cummings, J., & Benson, D.F. (1998). Frontotemporal lobal degeneration: A consensus on clinial diagnostic criteria. Neurology, 5, 1546-1554.
18. Sebastian, M.V., Menor, J., & Elosua, R. (2001). Patterns of errors in shortterm forgetting in AD and ageing. Memory, 9, 223-231.
19. Sebastian, M.V., Menor, J., & Elosua, M.R. (2006). Attentional dysfunction of the central executive in AD: Evidence from dual task and perseveration errors. Cortex, 42, 1015-1020.
20. Stuss, D., & Alexander, M.P. (2000). Executive functions and the frontal lobes: A conceptual view. Psychological Research, 63, 289-298.
21. Stuss, D., & Alexander, M.P. (2005). Does damage to the frontal lobes produce impairment in memory? Current Directions in Psychological Science, 14, 84-88.