Pro les of cognitive de cit and the use of a short neuropsychological battery in di erent types of dementia Eva Bolceková Abstract This work focuses on cognitive de cit pro les and the use of a short neuropsychological battery in patients with di erent types of dementia. Increasing prevalence of dementia syndromes highlights the need of their e cient diagnostics in clinical-psychological practice. Theoretical part of this work presents an overview of neurodegenerative diseases with em- phasis on their neuropsychological presentation. We describe the cogni- tive domains and their neuropsychological examination. We address in detail the Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status (RBANS) and its experimental Czech version. Research part of the work is based on neuropsychological examinations of 311 patients with cognitive de cit and 118 healthy controls. Patients' group is comprised of subjects with Alzheimer's disease, mild cognitive impairment, vascular cognitive impairment, Lewy Body disease, frontotemporal lobar degene- ration and patients with depression. We assess their cognitive pro les, present sensitivity, speci city, positive and negativne predictive values of RBANS scores for the groups and compare the results of control subjects with the original normative sample. We...
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:351287 |
| Date | January 2017 |
| Creators | Bolceková, Eva |
| Contributors | Kulišťák, Petr, Krámská, Lenka, Jirák, Roman |
| Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
| Language | Czech |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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