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Free & Cued Selective Reminding Test; Buschke selective reminding test (FCSRT, SRT)
Indications:
- list-learning task developed to assess verbal memory
- evaluation of early Alzheimer's disease [2]
Procedure:
- patient undergoes controlled learning of a card with 4 pictures
- each picture has a semantic cue (to ensure encoding)
- procedure is repeated with 3 other cards
- patient counts backwards by 3's for 20 seconds (as interference for working memory), then undergoes 3 recall trials
- in each trial, the patient recalls as many pictures as possible & then receives the semantic cues & tries to recall more pictures
- the scores are the number of correctly recalled words, without cues (free recall) & with & without cues (total recall)
Clinical significance:
- tests immediate recall
- one of 5 strong predictors of developing Alzheimer's disease in patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI).
Related
predictors of Alzheimer's disease
General
memory assessment
References
- Devanand DP et al,
Combining early markers strongly predicts conversion from
mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer's disease.
Biol Psychiatry 2008, 64:871
PMID: 18723162
- Wagner M et al.
Biomarker validation of a cued recall memory deficit
in prodromal Alzheimer disease.
Neurology 2012 Feb 7; 78:379.
PMID: 22238414
- Swerdlow RH and Jicha GA.
Alzheimer disease: Can the exam predict the pathology?
Neurology 2012 Feb 7; 78:374.
PMID: 22238417