Screening for Cognitive Deterioration in the Elderly: Detection of Clock-Anomalies and Object-Place Association
Alex Bahar-Fuchs

• Intro - Acknowledgements - Abstract -
• Review - Declining Cognitive Function - Dementia of the Alzheimer's type: pertinent features - Mild cognitive impairment - The Neurocognitive Systems in Early AD - Structural changes: Medial-Temporal Lobe Atrophy - Functional changes: Temporoparietal hypometabolism - Early detection of AD - Formation of arbitrary associations between objects locations: Paired-Associate learning - The Clock-Drawing Test in the detection of DAT - Aims of the current study - Hypotheses -
• Method - Participants - Materials - Procedure -
• Results - Results - Object-Place Association Task - Clock-Anomalies Detection Task - Group Differences in Responses on the CAD Task - Valid Clocks - Discriminant Function Analysis -
• Discussion - Discussion - OPAT-acquisition phase - Clock-Anomalies Detection - Methodological Limitations - Implications and conclusion -
• References - References -