TY - JOUR
T1 - Three Words - Three Shapes
T2 - A clinical test of memory
AU - Weintraub, Sandra
AU - Peavy, G. M.
AU - O'Connor, M.
AU - Johnson, N. A.
AU - Acar, D.
AU - Sweeney, J.
AU - Janssen, I.
N1 - Funding Information:
* This work was supported by the following sources: National Institute on Aging, Alzheimer’s Disease Core Center grant AG 13854 to Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois; NIA Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center grants to Harvard Medical School (AG05134-14) and to the University of California, San Diego (AG05131). We thank Maureen Kessenich for her technical assistance. Address correspondence to: Sandra Weintraub, Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer’s Disease Center, Northwestern University Medical School, 320 E. Superior, Searle 11-445, Chicago, IL 60611 USA. E-mail: sweintra@ nwv.edu Accepted for publication: April 7, 1999.
PY - 2000
Y1 - 2000
N2 - Three Words - Three Shapes was designed as an easy 'bedside' test for elderly patients that assesses verbal and nonverbal memory within the same modality. In the present study, it was administered to patients with probable Alzheimer's disease (PRAD), a control group of non-demented older subjects (NC) and a group of patients with Korsakoff's amnesia (KA). Incidental recall and several other measures of learning, retention and recognition differentiated control from PRAD and KA subjects. PRAD and KA subjects' performance was similar, but there were some material-specific interactions. This test is relatively easy and some of the derived measures could prove useful in staging amnesia progression beyond the earliest stages of PRAD when more difficult tests yield floor effects.
AB - Three Words - Three Shapes was designed as an easy 'bedside' test for elderly patients that assesses verbal and nonverbal memory within the same modality. In the present study, it was administered to patients with probable Alzheimer's disease (PRAD), a control group of non-demented older subjects (NC) and a group of patients with Korsakoff's amnesia (KA). Incidental recall and several other measures of learning, retention and recognition differentiated control from PRAD and KA subjects. PRAD and KA subjects' performance was similar, but there were some material-specific interactions. This test is relatively easy and some of the derived measures could prove useful in staging amnesia progression beyond the earliest stages of PRAD when more difficult tests yield floor effects.
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U2 - 10.1076/1380-3395(200004)22:2;1-1;FT267
DO - 10.1076/1380-3395(200004)22:2;1-1;FT267
M3 - Article
C2 - 10779840
AN - SCOPUS:0034027614
SN - 1380-3395
VL - 22
SP - 267
EP - 278
JO - Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology
JF - Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology
IS - 2
ER -