Wechsler Memory Scale-III Faces test performance in patients with mild cognitive impairment and mild Alzheimer's disease

Adriana M. Seelye; Diane B. Howieson; Katherine V. Wild; Mindy Milar Moore; Jeffrey A. Kaye

doi:10.1080/13803390802484763

Wechsler Memory Scale-III Faces test performance in patients with mild cognitive impairment and mild Alzheimer's disease

Adriana M. Seelye, Diane B. Howieson, Katherine V. Wild, Mindy Milar Moore, Jeffrey A. Kaye

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Little is known about the sensitivity of the Wechsler Memory Scale-Third Edition (WMS-III) Faces subtest to memory impairment associated with mild cognitive impairment (MCI). In this study, Faces performance was examined in 24 MCI patients, 46 mild Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients, and 98 elderly controls. We hypothesized that participants with diagnoses of MCI or AD would be impaired relative to controls on Faces. Analyses showed that AD participants performed significantly worse than MCI and intact participants, although there were no significant differences between MCI and intact participants. Data suggest that brain areas specialized for face recognition memory may be less affected by MCI and mild AD than regions specialized for verbal memory.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	682-688
Number of pages	7
Journal	Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology
Volume	31
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/13803390802484763
State	Published - Aug 2009

Keywords

Alzheimer's disease
Face memory
Face recognition
Mild cognitive impairment
Wechsler Memory Scale-Third Edition

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Clinical Psychology
Neurology
Clinical Neurology

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