title: Executive deficits appearing in the initial stage of Alzheimer's disease.
abstract: The presence of executive deficits has been sought at a stage of Alzheimer's disease where currently used neuropsychological batteries could not yet distinguish Alzheimer's patients from normal age- and education-matched controls. This study shows that, at this early stage, those patients that 6 months later are found to show clear signs of Alzheimer's had been significantly worse than normal controls in an executive function task adapted from the Brown-Peterson procedure.
authors.affiliation: Divisione di Neurologia, Ospedale Civile di Vicenza, Trieste, Italy.
authors.forename: T M
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: Sgaramella
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Borgo
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mondini
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pasini
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Toso
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Semenza
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000544:Alzheimer Disease; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D008569:Memory Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D012720:Severity of Illness Index