title: Boston Naming Test in Alzheimer's disease.
abstract: The 60-item Boston Naming Test (BNT) was administered to 55 subjects: 15 mildly-to-moderately demented patients meeting NINCDS-ADRDA criteria for "probable" Alzheimer's disease (AD), 15 age-equivalent normal control (NC) subjects, and--for purposes of validation--25 additional subjects with other forms of dementia (OD). A cutting score of 51 correctly classified 80% of AD patients and 86% of NC subjects. To facilitate rapid screening of confrontation-naming performance in these populations, three 30-item shortened versions of the BNT were constructed. Even and Odd Versions were equivalent for AD, NC, and OD subjects; high correlations between these two and the 60-item BNT permit easy extrapolation to a total BNT score. A new Empirical Version, derived from performance of our AD and NC reference groups, maintained most of the intergroup discrimination of the full BNT.
authors: Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles 90033.
authors: B W
authors: BW
authors: Williams
authors: W
authors: W
authors: Mack
authors: V W
authors: VW
authors: Henderson
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000544:Alzheimer Disease / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D000849:Anomia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D001037:Aphasia; D003704:Dementia / Q000175:diagnosis; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D011594:Psychometrics