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Published on: June 25, 2019
"Clockness" in the detection of dementia: a semantic-conceptual effect
Abstract:
We studied aspects of clock cognition that might underlie the sensitivity of the CDT in screening for dementia of the Alzheimer type (DAT). Two groups, 15 patients with mild-moderate DAT and 15 controls, were assessed with the CDT and specially designed tests of clock-related cognition. Patients were impaired on the CDT, but they did not differ from controls in copying a clock face or selecting the correct representation of a given time. Patients were worse than controls at distinguishing between clock and nonclock objects, detecting anomalies in clocks, and in setting time irrespective of response format. These findings suggest that semantic-conceptual aspects of clock-related cognition are important in discriminating between patients with DAT and controls.
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