Clinical Utility of Select Neuropsychological Assessment Battery Tests in Predicting Functional Abilities in Dementia

Ashendorf, Lee; Alosco, Michael L.; Bing-Canar, Hanaan; Chapman, Kimberly R.; Martin, Brett; Chaisson, Christine E.; Dixon, Diane; Steinberg, Eric; Tripodis, Yorghos; Kowall, Neil W.; Stern, Robert

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“…Items included bathing, dressing, eating, transferring, indoor walking, and toileting. On the other hand, the Lawton-Brody Instrumental Activities of Daily Living Scale 8 is a popular assessment of IADLs, which has been validated in a previous study 47 , and multiple studies involving this measurement have been published in older adults 48 , patients with stroke 49 , and those with cognitive impairment 50 . The current study used a nine-item modified version of the original eight items, with housework subdivided into light and heavy housework, and additionally including transport, managing finances, shopping, laundry, medication, food preparation, and using the telephone.…”

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Impacts of stroke and cognitive impairment on activities of daily living in the Taiwan longitudinal study on aging

Lee

Yeh

Yen

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Stroke and cognitive impairment are common in older population. They often occur together and their combined effects significantly increase disability in both basic (BADLs) and instrumental (IADLs) activities of daily living. We investigated the individual and combined impacts of stroke and cognitive impairment on BADLs and IADLs. A total of 3331 community-dwelling older adults were enrolled from the Taiwan longitudinal study on aging in 2011. Both BADLs and IADLs were analyzed. Combination of stroke and cognitive impairment increased severity of ADL disabilities, but similar prevalence, similar numbers of summed BADL and IADL tasks with disability, and similar levels of difficulty for each BADL and IADL task were found between the stroke group and cognitive impairment group. The former had more difficult in dressing while the latter had more difficult in using the telephone, transport, and managing finances. A hierarchy of ADLs was also observed in all groups. ADL skill training supplemented with cognitive and physical interventions should focus on secondary prevention of dementia and improve motor functional capacity to reduce loss of ADLs.

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Impacts of stroke and cognitive impairment on activities of daily living in the Taiwan longitudinal study on aging

Lee

Yeh

Yen

et al. 2021

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“…Further research has suggested that IADL are connected with multiple cognitive factors in patients with mild cognitive impairment [9]. In addition, neuropsychological measures are considered to be predictors of IADL ratings [10] and are often better predictors of IADL functioning than of basic ADL functioning [11]. The aim of the present study was to measure IADL in patients with different types of cancer and to explore the association between neuropsychological functioning and IADL.…”

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Instrumental activities of daily living and neuropsychological functioning among patients with different types of cancer

Megari

2020

Euro J of Neurology

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Background and objectives: The ability to perform instrumental activities of daily living (IADL) is important for maintaining independent living, and optimal health-related quality of life and well-being. Neuropsychological measures are predictors of IADL ratings. The aims of the present study were to measure ability to perform IADL in patients with cancer and to explore the relationship between IADL and neuropsychological functioning. Methods: We evaluated IADL in 182 patients with four different types of cancer (thyroid, colorectal, breast and prostate cancer) and examined the relationship between IADL and neuropsychological functioning 6 months after chemotherapy treatment. Results: Our results showed that patients with breast cancer had significantly greater difficulty in performing IADL compared to patients with other types of cancer. There were no differences in IADL performance among the other three study groups. In addition, we found that neuropsychological score was a predictor of IADL; the greater the patients' disability, the lower their performance on neuropsychological measures. This is in accordance with the literature that suggests neuropsychological measures to be predictors of IADL ratings. Conclusions: The present findings are important because, although many researchers have studied the relationship between IADL and neuropsychological functioning in cancer, few studies have investigated IADL in different types of cancer. Optimal neuropsychological functioning is connected with better ability with regard to IADL.

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“…An additional 179 participants were available from the FHS, a longitudinal and community‐based study 30 . The remaining 84 brains were part of the BU ADRC, which recruits control and AD participants during life, as previously described 31,32 . Total years of all contact sports participation as well as duration of American football was determined from next of kin after death in the UNITE and FHS groups 27 .…”

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Tau phosphorylation sites serine202 and serine396 are differently altered in chronic traumatic encephalopathy and Alzheimer's disease

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Alvarez

Xia

et al. 2021

Alzheimer's & Dementia

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Introduction Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a neurodegenerative tauopathy associated with repetitive head impacts (RHI) typically sustained by contact sport athletes. Post‐translation modifications to tau in CTE have not been well delineated or compared to Alzheimer's disease (AD). Methods We measured phosphorylated tau epitopes within dorsolateral frontal cortex from post mortem brains with neither CTE nor AD (n = 108), CTE (n = 109), AD (n = 223), and both CTE and AD (n = 33). Results Levels of hyperphosphorylated tau (p‐tau)202, p‐tau231, and p‐tau396 were significantly increased in CTE. Total years of RHI exposure was significantly associated with increased p‐tau202 levels (P = .001), but not p‐tau396. Instead, p‐tau396 was most closely related to amyloid beta (Aβ)1‐42 levels (P < .001). The p‐tau202:p‐tau396 ratio was significantly increased in early and late CTE compared to AD. Discussion In frontal cortex, p‐tau202 is the most upregulated p‐tau species in CTE, while p‐tau396 is most increased in AD. p‐tau202 and p‐tau396 measurements may aid in developing biomarkers for disease.

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Clinical Utility of Select Neuropsychological Assessment Battery Tests in Predicting Functional Abilities in Dementia

Abstract: NAB memory measures and Daily Living Tests may have clinical utility in detecting informant-rated functional impairment in dementia.

Cited by 28 publications

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Impacts of stroke and cognitive impairment on activities of daily living in the Taiwan longitudinal study on aging

Impacts of stroke and cognitive impairment on activities of daily living in the Taiwan longitudinal study on aging

Instrumental activities of daily living and neuropsychological functioning among patients with different types of cancer

Tau phosphorylation sites serine202 and serine396 are differently altered in chronic traumatic encephalopathy and Alzheimer's disease

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