Executive deficits appearing in the initial stage of Alzheimer's disease.
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.
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Divisione di Neurologia, Ospedale Civile di Vicenza, Trieste, Italy.
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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