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Executive function: The core feature of dementia?

Voss, Sarah E., Bullock, Roger A. (2004) Executive function: The core feature of dementia? Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders, 18 (2). pp. 207-216. ISSN 1420-8008. (doi:10.1159/000079202) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:12299)

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Abstract

Links between Alzheimer's disease (AD) and vascular dementia (VaD) have been examined, and this paper investigates the role of executive control function (ECF) within the dementia syndrome. 307 AD patients, 168 VaD patients and 208 controls were compared on tests of cognitive function. Results indicated that controls outperformed both patient groups (p<0.001) on all tests. AD patients performed more poorly than VaD patients on 11 of the 18 cognitive tests (p<0.05). Factor analysis of patient data indicated the existence of 3 factors generated from the battery of tests, relating to episodic memory, ECF and face recognition. It was primarily on tests of ECF that the AD and VaD groups did not differ significantly. It is concluded that ECF is a feature of cognition shared by the two pathologies, giving rise to an obligation to reconsider the current understanding of the core cognitive feature of dementia.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1159/000079202
Additional information: IN FILE
Subjects: R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
Divisions: Divisions > Division for the Study of Law, Society and Social Justice > School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research
Depositing User: M.P. Stone
Date Deposited: 02 Oct 2008 16:53 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 09:50 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/12299 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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Bullock, Roger A..

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