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- Frick, Andreas, et al.
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Relationships between the National Adult Reading Test and memory.
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Ingår i: Neuropsychology. - : American Psychological Association (APA). - 0894-4105 .- 1931-1559. ; 25:3, s. 397-403
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- OBJECTIVE: The aims of this study were to investigate the relationships between performance on the National Adult Reading Test (NART) and retrospective, concurrent, and prospective memory functioning, as well as between the NART and change in memory functioning over time.METHOD: NART administered in 2005 was used as a predictor for memory functioning in 2001, 2005, and 2008, and change in memory functioning from 2001 to 2008. Outcome measures were Logical Memory II, Letter-Number Sequencing, and Spatial Span from the Wechsler Memory Scale. Participants were 319 healthy women aged 40-79 years at baseline (2001).RESULTS: Significant correlations were found between the number of errors on the NART and memory measures in 2001, 2005, and 2008; Logical Memory II (r = -.41, -.38, -.39, respectively), Letter-Number Sequencing (r = -.38, -.35, -.36, respectively) and Spatial Span (r = -.23, -.22, -.19, respectively; all p values < .001). NART significantly added to predictions of all three measures of memory, after controlling for age, level of education and socioeconomic status. NART also significantly added to predictions of change in Logical Memory II and Letter-Number Sequencing over a 7-year period.CONCLUSIONS: The results indicate that the NART is correlated with episodic and working memory, and that the NART added to predictions of change in verbal episodic and working memory. Although the relationships are only moderate at best, the NART may be used in conjunction with demographic information and clinical reasoning to estimate premorbid memory functioning.
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- Laukka, Erika J., et al.
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Lower Ankle-Brachial Index Is Related to Worse Cognitive Performance in Old Age
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Ingår i: Neuropsychology. - : AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC. - 0894-4105 .- 1931-1559. ; 28:2, s. 281-289
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Objective: We aimed to study the associations between peripheral artery disease (PAD) and ankle-brachial index (ABI) and performance in a range of cognitive domains in nondemented elderly persons. Methods: Data were collected within the Lothian Birth Cohort 1921 and 1936 studies. These are two narrow-age cohorts at age 87 (n = 170) and 73 (n = 748) years. ABI was analyzed as a dichotomous (PAD vs. no PAD) and a continuous measure. PAD was defined as having an ABI less than 0.90. Measures of nonverbal reasoning, verbal declarative memory, verbal fluency, working memory, and processing speed were administered. Both samples were screened for dementia. Results: We observed no significant differences in cognitive performance between persons with or without PAD. However, higher ABI was associated with better general cognition (beta = .23, p = .02, R-2 change = .05) and processing speed (beta = .29, p < .01, R-2 change = .08) in the older cohort and better processing speed (beta = .12, p < .01, R-2 change = .01) in the younger cohort. This was after controlling for age, sex, and childhood mental ability and excluding persons with abnormally high ABI (>1.40) and a history of cardiovascular or cerebrovascular disease. Conclusion: Lower ABI is associated with worse cognitive performance in old age, especially in the oldest old (>85 years), possibly because of long-term exposure to atherosclerotic disease. Interventions targeting PAD in persons free of manifest cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease may reduce the incidence of cognitive impairment and dementia.
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- Razani, Jill, et al.
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Semantic networks for odors and colors in Alzheimer´s disease
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Ingår i: Neuropsychology. - Washington, DC., USA : American Psychological Association. - 0894-4105 .- 1931-1559. ; 24:3, s. 291-299
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Objective: Impairment in odor-naming ability and in verbal and visual semantic networks raised the hypothesis of a breakdown in the semantic network for odors in Alzheimer’s disease (AD). The current study addressed this hypothesis. Method: Twenty-four individuals, half patients with probable AD and half control participants, performed triadic-similarity judgments for odors and colors, separately, which, utilizing the multidimensional scaling (MDS) technique of individual difference scaling analysis (INDSCAL), generated two-dimensional configurations of similarity. The abilities to match odors and colors with written name labels were assessed to investigate disease-related differences in ability to identify and conceptualize the stimuli. In addition, responses on attribute-sorting tasks, requiring the odor and color perceptions to be categorized as one polarity of a certain dimension, were obtained to allow for objective interpretation of the MDS spatial maps. Results: Whereas comparison subjects generated patial maps based predominantly on relatively abstract characteristics, patients with AD classified odors on perceptual characteristics. The maps for patients with AD also showed disorganized groupings and loose associations between od rs. Their normal configurations for colors imply that the patients were able to comprehend the task per se. The data for label matching and for attribute sorting provide furtherevidence for a disturbance in semantic odor memory in AD. The patients performed poorer than controls on both these odor tasks, implying that the ability to identify and/or conceptualize odors is impaired in AD. Conclusion: The results provide clear evidence for deterioration of the structure of semantic knowledge for odors in AD.
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- Kargl, F., et al.
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ACM WiSec 2011 poster and demo session
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Ingår i: ACM Mobile Computing and Communications Review (ACM MC2R). - : Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). - 1559-1662 .- 1931-1222. ; 15:3, s. 34-34
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This edited article of MC2R features abstracts of posters and demos that were shown at the ACM Wireless Security Conference (ACM WiSec 2011).
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