Differences in Memory between Dementia of the Alzheimer's type and Elderly depression
Hyun-Jong Lee
(Department of Neuropsychiatry, College of Medicine, Korea University)
Hyeon-Soo Lee
(Department of Neuropsychiatry, College of Medicine, Korea University)
Sung-Hye Choi
(Department of Neuropsychiatry, College of Medicine, Korea University)
Min Nam
(Department of Neuropsychiatry, College of Medicine, In-Jea University)
Sun-Ja Jang
(National Rehabilitation Hospital)
Han-Young Jung
(Department of Rehabilitation, college of Medicine, In-Ha University)
Korean Journal of Clinical Psychology / Korean Journal of Clinical Psychology, (E)2733-4538
2001, v.20 no.4, pp.641-661
Lee,
H., Lee,
H., Choi,
S., Nam,
M., Jang,
S., &
Jung,
H.
(2001). Differences in Memory between Dementia of the Alzheimer's type and Elderly depression. Korean Journal of Clinical Psychology, 20(4), 641-661.
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to test differentiation of memory deficit in Alzheimer's disease group and depressive disorder group. Subjects were 24 mild Alzheimer-type dementia patiens(AD), 27 major depressive disorder patients(DEP), and 40 normal control group(NC). Finally 62 subject's output was analyzed. The memory test(K-MAS) was administered to 3 groups, all matched for sex, age, and educational level. AD group performed significantly worse than DEP, NC in most subtests of K-MAS. AD group showed (1) low total recall/recognition, (2) rapid rate of forgetting, (3) large numbers of intrusion, (4) recency part of serial position in free recall, (5) absence of practice effects. Discrimination analysis demonstrated 87.5% of diagnosis precision rate. Also, it was confirmed that Verbal Span test, Visual Span test, Delayed List Recall test, and Visual recognition have high discriminating power.
- keywords
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dementia of the Alzheimer's type,
elderly depression,
memory
- Submission Date
- 2000-10-25
- Revised Date
- 2001-07-04
- Accepted Date
- 2001-09-11
E-ISSN : 2733-4538
