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Waring, Jill D.; Chong, Hyemi; Wolk, David A.; Budson, Andrew E. – Brain and Cognition, 2008
Patients with mild Alzheimer's disease (AD) display a greater tendency to endorse unstudied items as "old" on memory tests than healthy older adults. This liberal response bias may result in mistaken beliefs about the completion of common tasks. This research attempted to determine whether it was possible to shift the response bias of mild AD…
Descriptors: Response Style (Tests), Alzheimers Disease, Patients, Recognition (Psychology)
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Nelson, Linda D.; Scheibel, Kevin E.; Ringman, John M.; Sayre, James W. – Brain and Cognition, 2007
Measures developed from animal models of aging may detect dementia of the Alzheimer's type in a population at-risk for Alzheimer's disease (AD). Although, by middle age, individuals with Down syndrome (DS) show an extraordinarily high prevalence of AD-type pathology, their severe idiopathic cognitive deficits tend to confound the "clinical"…
Descriptors: Pathology, Animals, Alzheimers Disease, Down Syndrome