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Identifier	Thesis 1668
Author	Smith, Ronna M
Title	Cognitive and behavioral differences between Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia / Ronna M. Smith
Publisher	Central Connecticut State University
Date	2001
Resource Type	Master's Thesis
Notes	Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia are the two most commone forms of dementia. Approximately 65-90% of all dementia cases represent one of these two types. Early differentiation of the two diseases is crucial to proper therapeutic treatment of the condition. Although diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease may be problematic, there are clinical features which distinguish it from other forms of dementia. This present study examined the nature and pattern of cognitive changes that distinguish between Alzheimer's Disease and vascular dementia. Further, it examined the relationships between odor identification and the severity of cognitive deficits in patients with Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia. Thirty seven older adults from the community and residential settings were recruited for the study. They comprised eleven individuals with a diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease, twelve persons diagnosed with Vascular dementia and fourteen age and education matched healthy controls. They were administered neuropsychological tests. The results revealed statistically significant differences between the Alzheimer's Disease and Vascular dementia groups and normal controls on tests of cognitive functioning. The Alzheimer's Disease patients performed significantly poorly than the Vascular dementia and the normal controls in tests of analogies, new learning, similarities, visual memory and vocabulary. Further, there were significant differences between the two demented groups in tests of visual immediate memory and visual delayed memory. Alzheimer's Disease group obtained significantly lower scores in an odor identification test. Further, there was a significant correlation between the degree of cognitive deficits and odor identification in the vascular dementia group, but not in the AD or normal control groups.
Subject	Alzheimer's disease Dementia
Department	Department of Psychology
Advisor	Mate-Kole, C. Charles
Type	Text
Digital Format	application/pdf
Language	eng
OCLC number	50703595
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