Studies from Johns Hopkins University, Division of Neuroradiology add new findings in the area of Alzheimer disease

Scientists discuss in "The Semantic Object Retrieval Test (SORT) in normal aging and Alzheimer disease" new findings in Alzheimer disease. Researchers in the United States conducted a study "To characterize performance on a test of semantic object retrieval (Semantic Object Retrieval Test-SORT) in healthy, elderly subjects and patients with Alzheimer disease (AD). Although the initial presentation of patients with AD often reflects impairment in delayed recall for verbally encoded memory, common complaints of patients with early AD are actually related to semantic memory impairment. Thirty-eight AD patients and 121 healthy aging controls enrolled in an Alzheimer's Disease Center received a...

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