Colt M Halter, Allison C Moll, Katherine Kero, Voyko Kavcic, John L Woodard, Bruno Giordani
{"title":"Construct validation of NIH Toolbox Cognition Battery premorbid cognitive functioning scores in Black and White older Americans with and without mild cognitive impairment.","authors":"Colt M Halter, Allison C Moll, Katherine Kero, Voyko Kavcic, John L Woodard, Bruno Giordani","doi":"10.1017/S1355617723000425","DOIUrl":"10.1017/S1355617723000425","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Valid estimates of premorbid cognitive functioning (PMIQ) are crucial for the assessment of older adults at risk for Alzheimer's disease. We investigated the relationship between the NIH Toolbox-Cognition Battery's (NIHTB-CB) Oral Reading Recognition (ORR) subtest and Wechsler Test of Adult Reading scores (WTAR, convergent validity). We also compared ORR to NIHTB-CB Flanker scores, where null relationships were expected (discriminant validity).</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The WTAR and NIHTB-CB were administered to 130 cognitively normal (CN) and 113 participants with mild cognitive impairment (MCI). Participants were community-dwelling, older Black and White adults, ages 55-88 years. Data analysis used uncorrected standard scores and Bayesian bivariate correlations. Supplemental materials include intraclass correlations.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>ORR and WTAR scores were strongly positively associated, while ORR and Flanker scores were unrelated. This pattern held when restricting analyses to the two cognitive status groups, the two racial groups, and the four race-by-diagnosis subgroups.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The findings demonstrate convergent and discriminant validity and support NIHTB-CB ORR scores as valid estimates of scores on a PMIQ measure in older Black and White adults with and without MCI.</p>","PeriodicalId":49995,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society","volume":" ","pages":"194-198"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10799968/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10222713","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A Zarina Kraal, Afsara B Zaheed, Anna Krasnova, Harita Vadari, DeAnnah R Byrd, Laura B Zahodne
{"title":"Time-lagged associations between two adverse childhood experiences and later-life cognitive function through educational attainment and stroke.","authors":"A Zarina Kraal, Afsara B Zaheed, Anna Krasnova, Harita Vadari, DeAnnah R Byrd, Laura B Zahodne","doi":"10.1017/S135561772300036X","DOIUrl":"10.1017/S135561772300036X","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) have been associated with worse cognitive health in older adulthood. This study aimed to extend findings on the specificity, persistence, and pathways of associations between two ACEs and cognition by using a comprehensive neuropsychological battery and a time-lagged mediation design.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Participants were 3304 older adults in the Health and Retirement Study Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol. Participants retrospectively reported whether they were exposed to parental substance abuse or experienced parental physical abuse before age 18. Factor scores derived from a battery of 13 neuropsychological tests indexed cognitive domains of episodic memory, executive functioning, processing speed, language, and visuospatial function. Structural equation models examined self-reported years of education and stroke as mediators, controlling for sociodemographics and childhood socioeconomic status.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Parental substance abuse in childhood was associated with worse later-life cognitive function across all domains, in part via pathways involving educational attainment and stroke. Parental physical abuse was associated with worse cognitive outcomes via stroke independent of education.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>This national longitudinal study in the United States provides evidence for broad and persistent indirect associations between two ACEs and cognitive aging via differential pathways involving educational attainment and stroke. Future research should examine additional ACEs and mechanisms as well as moderators of these associations to better understand points of intervention.</p>","PeriodicalId":49995,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society","volume":" ","pages":"107-116"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9744460","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Josselin Baumard, Mathieu Lesourd, Christophe Jarry, Catherine Merck, Frédérique Etcharry-Bouyx, Valérie Chauviré, Serge Belliard, François Osiurak, Didier Le Gall
{"title":"Knowing \"what for,\" but not \"where\": Dissociation between functional and contextual tool knowledge in healthy individuals and patients with dementia.","authors":"Josselin Baumard, Mathieu Lesourd, Christophe Jarry, Catherine Merck, Frédérique Etcharry-Bouyx, Valérie Chauviré, Serge Belliard, François Osiurak, Didier Le Gall","doi":"10.1017/S1355617723000486","DOIUrl":"10.1017/S1355617723000486","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Semantic tool knowledge underlies the ability to perform activities of daily living. Models of apraxia have emphasized the role of functional knowledge about the action performed with tools (e.g., a hammer and a mallet allow a \"hammering\" action), and contextual knowledge informing individuals about where to find tools in the social space (e.g., a hammer and a mallet can be found in a workshop). The goal of this study was to test whether contextual or functional knowledge, would be central in the organization of tool knowledge. It was assumed that contextual knowledge would be more salient than functional knowledge for healthy controls and that patients with dementia would show impaired contextual knowledge.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We created an original, open-ended categorization task with ambiguity, in which the same familiar tools could be matched on either contextual or functional criteria.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>In our findings, healthy controls prioritized a contextual, over a functional criterion. Patients with dementia had normal visual categorization skills (as demonstrated by an original picture categorization task), yet they made less contextual, but more functional associations than healthy controls.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The findings support a dissociation between functional knowledge (\"what for\") on the one hand, and contextual knowledge (\"where\") on the other hand. While functional knowledge may be distributed across semantic and action-related factors, contextual knowledge may actually be the name of higher-order social norms applied to tool knowledge. These findings may encourage researchers to test both functional and contextual knowledge to diagnose semantic deficits and to use open-ended categorization tests.</p>","PeriodicalId":49995,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society","volume":" ","pages":"97-106"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10113035","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Daliah Ross, Mark E Wagshul, Meltem Izzetoglu, Roee Holtzer
{"title":"Cortical thickness moderates intraindividual variability in prefrontal cortex activation patterns of older adults during walking.","authors":"Daliah Ross, Mark E Wagshul, Meltem Izzetoglu, Roee Holtzer","doi":"10.1017/S1355617723000371","DOIUrl":"10.1017/S1355617723000371","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Increased intraindividual variability (IIV) in behavioral and cognitive performance is a risk factor for adverse outcomes but research concerning hemodynamic signal IIV is limited. Cortical thinning occurs during aging and is associated with cognitive decline. Dual-task walking (DTW) performance in older adults has been related to cognition and neural integrity. We examined the hypothesis that reduced cortical thickness would be associated with greater increases in IIV in prefrontal cortex oxygenated hemoglobin (HbO<sub>2</sub>) from single tasks to DTW in healthy older adults while adjusting for behavioral performance.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Participants were 55 healthy community-dwelling older adults (mean age = 74.84, standard deviation (<i>SD</i>) = 4.97). Structural MRI was used to quantify cortical thickness. Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) was used to assess changes in prefrontal cortex HbO<sub>2</sub> during walking. HbO<sub>2</sub> IIV was operationalized as the <i>SD</i> of HbO<sub>2</sub> observations assessed during the first 30 seconds of each task. Linear mixed models were used to examine the moderation effect of cortical thickness throughout the cortex on HbO<sub>2</sub> IIV across task conditions.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Analyses revealed that thinner cortex in several regions was associated with greater increases in HbO<sub>2</sub> IIV from the single tasks to DTW (<i>ps</i> < .02).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Consistent with neural inefficiency, reduced cortical thickness in the PFC and throughout the cerebral cortex was associated with increases in HbO<sub>2</sub> IIV from the single tasks to DTW without behavioral benefit. Reduced cortical thickness and greater IIV of prefrontal cortex HbO<sub>2</sub> during DTW may be further investigated as risk factors for developing mobility impairments in aging.</p>","PeriodicalId":49995,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society","volume":" ","pages":"117-127"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10751394/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9689094","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Theresa F Gierzynski, Allyson Gregoire, Jonathan M Reader, Rebecca Pantis, Stephen Campbell, Arijit Bhaumik, Annalise Rahman-Filipiak, Judith Heidebrink, Bruno Giordani, Henry Paulson, Benjamin M Hampstead
{"title":"Evaluation of the Uniform Data Set version 3 teleneuropsychological measures.","authors":"Theresa F Gierzynski, Allyson Gregoire, Jonathan M Reader, Rebecca Pantis, Stephen Campbell, Arijit Bhaumik, Annalise Rahman-Filipiak, Judith Heidebrink, Bruno Giordani, Henry Paulson, Benjamin M Hampstead","doi":"10.1017/S1355617723000383","DOIUrl":"10.1017/S1355617723000383","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Few studies have evaluated in-home teleneuropsychological (teleNP) assessment and none, to our knowledge, has evaluated the National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center's (NACC) Uniform Data Set version 3 tele-adapted test battery (UDS v3.0 t-cog). The current study evaluates the reliability of the in-home UDS v3.0 t-cog with a prior in-person UDS v3.0 evaluation.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>One hundred and eighty-one cognitively unimpaired or cognitively impaired participants from a longitudinal study of memory and aging completed an in-person UDS v3.0 and a subsequent UDS v3.0 t-cog evaluation (∼16 months apart) administered either via video conference (<i>n</i> = 122) or telephone (<i>n</i> = 59).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>We calculated intraclass correlation coefficients (ICCs) between each time point for the entire sample. ICCs ranged widely (0.01-0.79) but were generally indicative of \"moderate\" (i.e., ICCs ranging from 0.5-0.75) to \"good\" (i.e., ICCs ranging from 0.75-0.90) agreement. Comparable ICCs were evident when looking only at those with stable diagnoses. However, relatively stronger ICCs (Range: 0.35-0.87) were found between similarly timed in-person UDS v3.0 evaluations.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Our findings suggest that most tests on the UDS v3.0 t-cog battery may serve as a viable alternative to its in-person counterpart, though reliability may be attenuated relative to the traditional in-person format. More tightly controlled studies are needed to better establish the reliability of these measures.</p>","PeriodicalId":49995,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society","volume":" ","pages":"183-193"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10751395/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10045886","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Reina Mizrahi, Oona Cromheecke, David P Salmon, Tamar H Gollan
{"title":"Disruption of the serial position effect as an early marker of Alzheimer's disease in Spanish-English bilinguals.","authors":"Reina Mizrahi, Oona Cromheecke, David P Salmon, Tamar H Gollan","doi":"10.1017/S1355617723000310","DOIUrl":"10.1017/S1355617723000310","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>The present study examined if disruption of serial position effects in list recall could serve as an early marker of Alzheimer's disease (AD) in Spanish-English bilinguals.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We tested 20 participants initially diagnosed as cognitively normal or with mild cognitive impairment who declined and eventually received a diagnosis of AD (decliners), and 37 who remained cognitively stable (controls) over at least 2 years. Participants were tested on the Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer's Disease (CERAD) Word List Learning Test in English or Spanish as part of an annual neuropsychological evaluation.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Compared to controls, decliners exhibited significantly reduced recall including reduced primacy scores (i.e., items recalled from the <i>first</i> three list items on Trial 1), whereas recency scores (i.e., items recalled from the <i>last</i> 3 list items on Trial 1) were equivalent in decliners and controls. Further analyses suggested that the sensitivity of the primacy effect to preclinical AD was initially stronger in participants tested in Spanish, a surprising finding given that the CERAD was developed for English speakers. However, in the subsequent year of testing, primacy scores declined to the same level regardless of language of testing.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Several list learning measures may facilitate early diagnosis of AD in Spanish-English bilinguals, possibly including the relatively understudied primacy effect. Additional studies are needed to investigate the possibility that linguistic or demographic variables might modulate sensitivity of list learning tests to preclinical AD, which could lead to broader improvements in their utility for early diagnosis of AD in all populations.</p>","PeriodicalId":49995,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society","volume":" ","pages":"162-171"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10025338","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Veronica Pucci, Carolina Guerra, Amanda Barsi, Massimo Nucci, Sara Mondini
{"title":"How long have you exercised in your life? The effect of motor reserve and current physical activity on cognitive performance.","authors":"Veronica Pucci, Carolina Guerra, Amanda Barsi, Massimo Nucci, Sara Mondini","doi":"10.1017/S135561772300022X","DOIUrl":"10.1017/S135561772300022X","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>Aging of the population encourages research on how to preserve cognition and quality of life. Many studies have shown that <i>Physical Activity</i> (PA) positively affects cognition in older adults. However, PA carried out throughout the individual's lifespan may also have an impact on cognition in old age. We hypothesize the existence of <i>Motor Reserve</i> (MR), a flexible and dynamic construct that increases over time and compensates for age-related motor and cognitive loss.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Two questionnaires were developed and validated to estimate MR (Physical Activity carried out throughout the individual's lifespan) and Current Physical Activity (CPA, PA carried out in the previous 12 months). They were administered to 75 healthy individuals over 50 to verify the relation with cognition. MR and CPA include physical exercise (i.e., structured activities to improve or maintain physical fitness) and incidental PA, which we consider as any movement that leads to a metabolic cost above baseline (e.g., housekeeping, walking). In addition, the Cognitive Reserve Index questionnaire (CRI), a reliable predictor of cognitive performance, was used to measure each participant's Cognitive Reserve.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The factors that most influenced performance are Age and Cognitive Reserve, but also MR and CPA together and MR when it is the only factor.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Cognitive variability in adult and elderly populations is explained by both MR and CPA. PA training could profitably be included in new preventive and existing interventions.</p>","PeriodicalId":49995,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society","volume":" ","pages":"11-17"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9310614","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jeffrey M Rogers, Igor Grant, Maria Cecilia G Marcondes, Erin E Morgan, Mariana Cherner, Ronald J Ellis, Scott L Letendre, Robert K Heaton, Jennifer E Iudicello
{"title":"Cannabis use may attenuate neurocognitive performance deficits resulting from methamphetamine use disorder.","authors":"Jeffrey M Rogers, Igor Grant, Maria Cecilia G Marcondes, Erin E Morgan, Mariana Cherner, Ronald J Ellis, Scott L Letendre, Robert K Heaton, Jennifer E Iudicello","doi":"10.1017/S1355617723000292","DOIUrl":"10.1017/S1355617723000292","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Methamphetamine and cannabis are two widely used, and frequently co-used, substances with possibly opposing effects on the central nervous system. Evidence of neurocognitive deficits related to use is robust for methamphetamine and mixed for cannabis. Findings regarding their combined use are inconclusive. We aimed to compare neurocognitive performance in people with lifetime cannabis or methamphetamine use disorder diagnoses, or both, relative to people without substance use disorders.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>423 (71.9% male, aged 44.6 ± 14.2 years) participants, stratified by presence or absence of lifetime methamphetamine (M-/M+) and/or cannabis (C-/C+) DSM-IV abuse/dependence, completed a comprehensive neuropsychological, substance use, and psychiatric assessment. Neurocognitive domain T-scores and impairment rates were examined using multiple linear and binomial regression, respectively, controlling for covariates that may impact cognition.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Globally, M+C+ performed worse than M-C- but better than M+C-. M+C+ outperformed M+C- on measures of verbal fluency, information processing speed, learning, memory, and working memory. M-C+ did not display lower performance than M-C- globally or on any domain measures, and M-C+ even performed better than M-C- on measures of learning, memory, and working memory.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Our findings are consistent with prior work showing that methamphetamine use confers risk for worse neurocognitive outcomes, and that cannabis use does not appear to exacerbate and may even reduce this risk. People with a history of cannabis use disorders performed similarly to our nonsubstance using comparison group and outperformed them in some domains. These findings warrant further investigation as to whether cannabis use may ameliorate methamphetamine neurotoxicity.</p>","PeriodicalId":49995,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society","volume":" ","pages":"84-93"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10841263/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10099853","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Richard N Jones, Jennifer J Manly, Kenneth M Langa, Lindsay H Ryan, Deborah A Levine, Ryan McCammon, David Weir
{"title":"Factor structure of the Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol neuropsychological battery in the Health and Retirement Study.","authors":"Richard N Jones, Jennifer J Manly, Kenneth M Langa, Lindsay H Ryan, Deborah A Levine, Ryan McCammon, David Weir","doi":"10.1017/S135561772300019X","DOIUrl":"10.1017/S135561772300019X","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>The Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol (HCAP) describes an assessment battery and a family of population-representative studies measuring neuropsychological performance. We describe the factorial structure of the HCAP battery in the US Health and Retirement Study (HRS).</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>The HCAP battery was compiled from existing measures by a cross-disciplinary and international panel of researchers. The HCAP battery was used in the 2016 wave of the HRS. We used factor analysis methods to assess and refine a theoretically driven single and multiple domain factor structure for tests included in the HCAP battery among 3,347 participants with evaluable performance data.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>For the eight domains of cognitive functioning identified (orientation, memory [immediate, delayed, and recognition], set shifting, attention/speed, language/fluency, and visuospatial), all single factor models fit reasonably well, although four of these domains had either 2 or 3 indicators where fit must be perfect and is not informative. Multidimensional models suggested the eight-domain model was overly complex. A five-domain model (orientation, memory delayed and recognition, executive functioning, language/fluency, visuospatial) was identified as a reasonable model for summarizing performance in this sample (standardized root mean square residual = 0.05, root mean square error of approximation = 0.05, confirmatory fit index = 0.94).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The HCAP battery conforms adequately to a multidimensional structure of neuropsychological performance. The derived measurement models can be used to operationalize notions of neurocognitive impairment, and as a starting point for prioritizing pre-statistical harmonization and evaluating configural invariance in cross-national research.</p>","PeriodicalId":49995,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society","volume":" ","pages":"47-55"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10787803/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10576136","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Troy A Webber, Sara A Lorkiewicz, Andrew M Kiselica, Steven P Woods
{"title":"Ecological validity of cognitive fluctuations in dementia with Lewy bodies.","authors":"Troy A Webber, Sara A Lorkiewicz, Andrew M Kiselica, Steven P Woods","doi":"10.1017/S1355617723000255","DOIUrl":"10.1017/S1355617723000255","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>Cognitive fluctuations are a core clinical feature of dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), but their contribution to the everyday functioning difficulties evident DLB are not well understood. The current study evaluated whether intraindividual variability across a battery of neurocognitive tests (intraindividual variability-dispersion) and daily cognitive fluctuations as measured by informant report are associated with worse daily functioning in DLB.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The study sample included 97 participants with consensus-defined DLB from the National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center (NACC). Intraindividual variability-dispersion was measured using the coefficient of variation, which divides the standard deviation of an individual's performance scores across 12 normed neurocognitive indices from the NACC neuropsychological battery by that individual's performance mean. Informants reported on daily cognitive fluctuations using the Mayo Fluctuations Scale (MFS) and on daily functioning using the functional activities questionnaire (FAQ).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Logistic regression identified a large univariate association of intraindividual variability-dispersion and presence of daily cognitive fluctuations on the MFS (Odds Ratio = 73.27, 95% Confidence Interval = 1.38, 3,895.05). Multiple linear regression demonstrated that higher intraindividual variability-dispersion and presence of daily cognitive fluctuations as assessed by the MFS were significantly and independently related to worse daily functioning (FAQ scores).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Among those with DLB, informant-rated daily cognitive fluctuations and cognitive fluctuations measured in the clinic (as indexed by intraindividual variability-dispersion across a battery of tests) were independently associated with poorer everyday functioning. These data demonstrate ecological validity in measures of cognitive fluctuations in DLB.</p>","PeriodicalId":49995,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society","volume":" ","pages":"35-46"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10576013/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9663383","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}