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visual association test
Advantages:
- assesses cued recall of pictorial stimuli
- not dependent upon language
Procedure:
- the patient is shown 6 cue cards with familiar objects
- the patient is then shown 6 association cards that show new interactions involving the familiar objects
- finally, the patient is again shown the initial familiar objects & asked to identify the missing object
- ref [2] shows examples of association cards
Interpretation:
- 12 point scoring system:
- with cutoff of 7
- Sensitivity: 95.2%
- Specificity: 96.0%
- Positive predictive value: 55.6%
- Negative predictive value: 99.7%
- virtually nobody scoring >= 8 has dementia
General
visuospatial function assessment
References
- Fuchs A et al.
Cued recall and other cognitive tasks to facilitate dementia
recognition in primary care.
J Am Geriatr Soc 2012 Jan; 60:130
PMID: 22150245
- Lindeboom J et al
Visual association test to detect early dementia of the
Alzheimer type
J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2002;73:126-133
http://jnnp.bmj.com/content/73/2/126.full.pdf+html