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7929709

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
1994-10-24
pubmed:abstractText
The California Verbal Learning Test (CVLT; Delis, Kramer, Kaplan, & Ober, 1987) was administered to patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer disease (AD) (Group AD; n = 13) and to a control group of normal older adults (Group NC; n = 13) matched on age and education. Two measures were used to determine whether primary memory (PM) is impaired in early AD. One measure, considered a relatively "pure" measure of PM, is based on the procedure developed by Tulving and Colotla (1970) which considers an item to be recalled from PM if no more than six items intervene between its presentation and recall. The other measure is the more commonly used recall from recency. No significant difference between the AD and NC Groups was found, both on the Tulving and Colotla measure, as well as on the recall from recency measure of PM. A significant difference was obtained on two measures of secondary memory (SM), namely, Tulving and Colotla's measure and recall from the primacy and middle regions of the list of words. In comparison to NC, and AD patients showed little evidence of learning over the five trials, and poor retention even over short delays. In addition, the patients with AD showed deficits in clustering words by taxonomic category at recall. We conclude that impairment in PM cannot be used as a diagnostic marker of AD in the early stages of the disease process.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
1380-3395
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
16
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
414-22
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-4-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1994
pubmed:articleTitle
Intact primary memory in mild to moderate Alzheimer disease: indices from the California Verbal Learning Test.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Psychology, Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care, North York, Ontario, Canada.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Clinical Trial, Controlled Clinical Trial, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't