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| ArticleTitle | Patients with Alzheimer's disease who forget a whole incident in daily living |
| Language | J |
| AuthorList | Natsumi Suzuki1), Takuya Sato2), Toru Imamura1)3) |
| Affiliation |
1)Department of Speech Therapy, School of Health Sciences, Niigata University of Health and Welfare 2)Division of Speech Therapy, Department of Rehabilitation, Niigata Rehabilitation Hospital 3)Department of Neurology, Niigata Rehabilitation Hospital |
| Publication | Japanese Journal of Neuropsychology: 35 (1), 36-43, 2019 |
| Received | Jan 10, 2018 |
| Accepted | Jan 11, 2019 |
| Abstract | We investigated the impaired memory of a whole incident in daily living (forgetting a whole incident) in 215 consecutive patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD). We compared the groups of patients with and without forgetting a whole incident in terms of patient, disease and cognitive characteristics by analysis of variance and by logistic multiple regression analysis with the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) scores as a covariate. There was a significant difference and a considerable effect size between patient groups in the scores of recent memory, orientation and everyday memory tasks. In logistic multiple regression analysis, a significant odd ratio was obtained in the scores of orientation and everyday memory tasks. Whether or not a patient showed forgetting a whole incident appropriately reflected the severity of everyday memory impairment, and may help to estimate everyday memory impairment. Everyday memory seems to have many bases other than memory function assessed by neuropsychological tests, and the result of this research suggests orientation as one of the bases. |
| Keywords | everyday memory, forgetting a whole incident, dementia, Alzheimer's disease, orientation |
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