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The breakdown of calculation procedures in Alzheimer's disease
M C Mantovan1, M Delazer, M Ermani
1Department of Neurology, University of Padua, Italy.
Abstract:
The study investigates calculation abilities in 12 patients with probable Alzheimer's disease (AD) and compares them to calculation abilities of healthy control subjects (NC) and patients with focal left hemisphere lesions (LHL). AD patients scored significantly lower than NC in all calculation tasks and lower than LHL patients in the execution of complex written calculation, but not in the retrieval of arithmetic facts. In the AD group a subject-by-subject error analysis on the complex written calculation showed a low consistency and a high variability of error types. It is suggested that AD patients' difficulties in complex calculation arise from a monitoring deficit and not from incomplete or distorted calculation algorithms. Overall, deficits in monitoring calculation procedures may be an early and common symptom of AD.
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