NEUROPSI battery subtest profilein subcortical vascular dementia and Alzheimers disease
Perfil do desempenho de pacientes com demência vascular subcortical e doença de Alzheimer em subtestes da bateria NEUROPSI
Dement. neuropsychol; 6 (3), 2012
Publication year: 2012
To investigate the diagnostic value of subtests of the NEUROPSI battery for differentiating subcorticalvascular dementia (SVaD) from Alzheimers disease (AD).
Methods:
Thirteen patients with mild SVaD, 15 patients with mild probable AD, and 30 healthy controls, matched for age, education and dementia severity (in the case of patients), were submitted to the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) and NEUROPSI battery. The performance of AD and SVaD groups on NEUROPSI subtests was compared. The statistical analyses were performed using Kruskal-Wallis, Chi-squareand Mann-Whitney tests. The results were interpreted at the 5% significance level (p<0.05). Bonferronis correction was applied to multiple comparisons (a=0.02).Results:
SVaD and AD patients showed no statistical difference in MMSE scores(SVaD=20.8 and AD=21.0; p=1.0) or in NEUROPSI total score (SVaD=65.0 and AD=64.3; p=0.56), suggesting a similar severity of dementia. The AD group performed worse on memory recall (<0.01) and SVaD group was worse in verbal fluency subtests (p=0.02).Conclusion:
NEUROPSIs memory and language subtests can be an auxiliary tool for differentiating SVaD from AD.
Investigar o valor diagnóstico dos substes da bateria NEUROPSI em diferenciar demência vascular subcortical (DVs) de doença de Alzheimer (DA).