Memory Evaluation in Mild Cognitive Impairment using Recall and Recognition Tests

Abstract

Amnestic mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is a selective episodic memory deficit that often indicates early

Short-term practice effects in amnestic mild cognitive impairment: implications for diagnosis and treatment

“…Along these same lines, it is possible that memory deficits in MCI are still different from those in Alzheimer's disease. For example, recent research has suggested that some patients with MCI demonstrate relatively better performance on recognition trials than recall trials (Bennett et al, 2006;Westerberg et al, 2006), and better recognition memory might facilitate the expression of practice effects. Lastly, from both a methodological and conceptual standpoint, amnestic MCI is typically viewed as a heterogeneous group, comprised of patients who will progress to dementia and those who will remain stable for several years or even revert back to normal cognition (Winblad et al, 2004).…”

Philadelphia Brief Assessment of Cognition in healthy and clinical Brazilian sample

“…Other studies used neuropsychological measures of attention, memory and visuospatial abilities in which individuals aged from 60 to 80 years had their performance compared with individuals between 16 and 60 years of age 12 . Different tests have shown different rates of change between groups, being the memory test the first to show a significant decline 11 . In other tests, there was no evidence of significant change with increasing age [21][22][23] .…”

“…Significant discrepancies occur in one or more test scores enabling the cognitive functioning assessment of psychiatric, educational or cultural impairment as is done in the patient's experiences, considering their historical circumstances 11,15,16 and emotional memories [17][18][19] . Several studies also suggest the effect of education level on the performance of cognitive tasks 20 .…”

“…A major challenge for neuropsychological evaluation is distinguishing changes in some cognitive domains that occur during the so-called "normal" aging and certain diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease [9][10][11] . This is important because they .…”

Subjective memory and strategy use in mild cognitive impairment and healthy aging.

“…However, results from the latter study indicated that older adults with MCI benefited from using semantic cues. Bennett, Golob, Parker, & Starr (2006) reported that older adults with MCI and normal controls (NC) did not differ in a measure of recall strategy (i.e., subjective organization and recall consistency), although MCI patients exhibited significantly lower performance in list recall. Froger, Taconnat, Landré, Beigneux, & Isingrini (2009), in a small but elegant study, reported that older adults with MCI used semantic cues during encoding, but performance benefits were observed only in tasks that used recognition paradigms.…”