Early Detection of Dementia

Title: Screening for Cognitive Deterioration in the Elderly: Detection of Clock-Anomalies and Object-Place Association
Author: Alex Bahar-Fuchs
Supervision: Assoc/Prof Michael Saling
Academic Institution: University of Melbourne

Table of Contents:

Abstract		1
Acknowldegement		2
	Declining Cognitive Function	3
	Dementia of the Alzheimers Type: Pertinent Features	4
	Mild Cognitive Impairment	5
	The Neuocognitive Systems in Early AD	7
	Structural Changes: Medial Temporal Lobe Atrophy	8
Functional Changes: Temporoparietal Hypometabolism		9
	Early Detection of AD	9
	Formation of arbitrary associations between object locations:Paired-Associate learning	10
	The Clock-Drawing Test in the detection of DAT	11
Aims of the Current Study		12
	Hypotheses	12
	Participants	13
	Materials	14
	Procedure	15
	Results	16
	Object-Place Association Task	17
	Figures 1 & 2	18
	Clock-Anomalies Detection Task	19
	Group Differences in Responses on the CAD Task	20
	Valid Clocks	21
	Discriminat Function Analysis	22
Discussion		23
	OPAT-acquisition phase	24
	Clock Anomalies Detection	25
	Methodological Limitations	26
	Implications and conclusion	27
References		28

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