Participants

Question 1

Who assessed them

Answer 1

Neurologist, clinical neuropsychologist and psychiatrist

Question 2

What did they assess

Answer 2

Check for psychiatric disorders ie depression or schizophrenia

Give mental state exam MMSE

Assess severity of dementia via CD-R

Question 3

What additional tests where they given

Answer 3

CAT and MRI as well as a blood test

Question 4

Mean age of Alzheimer’s

Answer 4

68 years

Question 5

Mean age of frontotemporal

Answer 5

61 years

Question 6

Mean age of semantic

Answer 6

65 years

Question 7

What impairments did they find in frontotemporal

Answer 7

Problems in verbal fluency - impairment in executive function (task requires retrieving info from past experience to complete ie selective attention)

Difficulty rule learning in WCST -involve problem solving and abstract thinking

Question 8

What did mri show in frontotemporal

Answer 8

Atrophy in frontal lobe

Hypo perfusion - inadequate blood supply to brain tissue

Question 9

Impairments in semantic

Answer 9

Problems with speech production - link to anomia symptom(problems in recalling words/names)

Question 10

Mri in semantic

Answer 10

Focal atrophy in polar and inferolateral temporal lobe - areas strongly associated with semantic memory performance

Question 11

Alzheimer’s impairments

Answer 11

General memory performance low

Question 12

Alzheimer’s mri

Answer 12

Mild medial temporal and diffuse(white matter) atrophy

Question 13

How were they gathered

Answer 13

From addenbrookes OK Cambridge