TY - JOUR
T1 - Signal-detection analysis of the WMS faces subtest
T2 - Results in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patients
AU - Pérez, Manuel
AU - Amayra, Imanol
AU - Martínez, Oscar
AU - Lázaro, Esther
AU - López-Paz, Juan Francisco
AU - García, Maitane
AU - Berrocoso, Sarah
AU - Al-Rashaida, Mohammad
AU - Rodríguez Bermejo, Alicia Aurora
AU - Luna, Paula María
AU - Varona Franco, Luis
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - About 30% of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) suffer from cognitive impairment and 10–15% suffer from frontotemporal dementia (FTD). Due to the patients’ reduced motor function, a neuropsychological assessment with a low motor demand can be an advantage when evaluating patients, aiding its application. The present work has studied the usefulness of the Faces subtest of the Wechsler Memory Scale in 42 patients with ALS and 42 healthy volunteers applying Holdnack’s Two-High Threshold model. The ALS group performed significantly worse in immediate and delayed discriminability. With respect to the presence of cognitive impairment, it seemed to be independent of the indexes proposed by Holdnack and Delis. On the other hand, motor problems were associated with delayed recognition while behavior alterations were linked to problems with delayed discriminability. ALS patients do not express differences in the bias index, in line with other types of previously studied pathologies.
AB - About 30% of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) suffer from cognitive impairment and 10–15% suffer from frontotemporal dementia (FTD). Due to the patients’ reduced motor function, a neuropsychological assessment with a low motor demand can be an advantage when evaluating patients, aiding its application. The present work has studied the usefulness of the Faces subtest of the Wechsler Memory Scale in 42 patients with ALS and 42 healthy volunteers applying Holdnack’s Two-High Threshold model. The ALS group performed significantly worse in immediate and delayed discriminability. With respect to the presence of cognitive impairment, it seemed to be independent of the indexes proposed by Holdnack and Delis. On the other hand, motor problems were associated with delayed recognition while behavior alterations were linked to problems with delayed discriminability. ALS patients do not express differences in the bias index, in line with other types of previously studied pathologies.
KW - Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
KW - dementia
KW - frontotemporal dementia
KW - memory
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U2 - 10.1080/23279095.2019.1676243
DO - 10.1080/23279095.2019.1676243
M3 - Article
C2 - 31612730
AN - SCOPUS:85074373434
SN - 2327-9095
VL - 28
SP - 607
EP - 613
JO - Applied Neuropsychology:Adult
JF - Applied Neuropsychology:Adult
IS - 5
ER -