Comparison of Behavior-Related Features in the MMSE Sentence in Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease.

ABSTRACT: Background: Despite the ubiquity of cognitive assessments using the MMSE, there has been little investigation of currently unscored features of the MMSE sentence item relevant to behavior and language in patients with behavioral variant Frontotemporal Dementia (bvFTD) and Alzheimer's disease (AD). Objective: To describe and compare the unscored content and grammar elements of the MMSE sentence item in patients with bvFTD and AD. Methods: Categorization of predefined content and grammar elements of the MMSE sentence was performed by two blinded raters in patients with bvFTD (n = 74) and AD (n = 84). Chi-square and ANCOVAs were conducted to identify differences between the diagnostic groups. A multinomial logistic regression analysis was conducted to determ

SUBMITTER: Ruiz-Garcia R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8439252 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature