Development of the Greek version of the Face Name Associative Memory Exam (GR-FNAME12) in cognitively normal elderly individuals

Abstract

It was found that the Greek version of the FNAME12 had adequate psychometric properties, and could be administered to Greek-speaking individuals for clinical and research purposes.

Face–Name Associative Memory Performance Among Cognitively Healthy Individuals, Individuals With Subjective Memory Complaints, and Patients With a Diagnosis of aMCI

“…Previous research have found that the face-name associative memory performance was not affected by education level in contrast to traditional memory measures (Werheid and Clare, 2007;Amariglio et al, 2012a;Alegret et al, 2015;Kormas et al, 2018). Highly educated individuals are characterized by rich semantic networks, and they have the ability to develop advanced and sophisticated conceptual strategies that positively contribute to the recall of word lists and/or stories (O'Shea et al, 2018).…”

“…Each patient was individually evaluated during the morning hours in the Memory Clinic of the First Neurology Department of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens at Aeginition Hospital. The evaluation of global cognitive status was conducted using the MMSE (Folstein et al, 1975 ), which was standardized in Greek (Fountoulakis et al, 2000 ); delayed free recall was measured using the GVLT (Vlahou et al, 2013 ), which is based on the California Verbal Learning Test (Delis et al, 1987 ), for testing the verbal memory and the GR-FNAME12 for testing the cross visual–verbal associative memory domain (Kormas et al, 2018 ) ( Table 1 ).…”

“…This gap was filled by the construction of the Face–Name Associative Memory Examination (FNAME) (Amariglio et al, 2012b ) and its short form FNAME12 (Papp et al, 2014 ). This was followed by the creation of versions of the test for Spanish-speaking (Alegret et al, 2015 ), Czech-speaking (Mazancova et al, 2017 ), and Greek-speaking (Kormas et al, 2018 ) populations. An important feature of the test is that it is based entirely on the examination of the multisensory mechanisms of associative memory, which have been found to be particularly sensitive in the early stages of AD (Blackwell et al, 2004 ; Parra et al, 2010 ); this is the case with face–name memory, for example (Clare et al, 2002 ; Werheid and Clare, 2007 ).…”

The Modality Effect on Delayed Free Recall in Non-demented Patients With Mild Parkinson’s Disease Progression

“…Each patient was individually evaluated during morning hours in the First Neurology Department of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens at Aeginition Hospital. The evaluation of global cognitive status was conducted with the MoCA (Nasreddine et al, 2005) standardized in Greek (Konstantopoulos et al, 2016); delayed free recall was measured with the Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test (RAVLT; Rey, 1964) standardized in Greek for the verbal memory domain (Messinis et al, 2016), with the Rey Osterrieth Complex Figure Test (ROCFT; Rey, 1941) standardized in Greek Test (Aretouli and Kosmidis, 2007) for the visual memory domain and with the Greek Version of Face–Name Associative Memory Examination (GR-FNAME12) for the cross visual-verbal memory domain (Kormas et al, 2018).…”

Νευροψυχολογική Διερεύνηση Της Μνήμης Ονομάτων - Προσώπων Σε Φυσιολογικό Πληθυσμό Και Ασθενείς Με Νευροεκφυλιστικά Νοσήματα

“…Πειραματική μελέτη διερεύνησε την ικανότητα ανάκλησης ονομάτων για πρόσωπα και ονομασιών για αντικείμενα παράλληλα με τη χορήγηση καθιερωμένων νευροψυχολογικών δοκιμασιών σε μια ομάδα ατόμων υψηλού κινδύνου, οι οποίοι ακόμη δεν πληρούσαν τα τυπικά κριτήρια διάγνωσης AD et al, 2012) και της σύντομης μορφής FNAME12 (Papp et al, 2014). Ακολούθησαν, η δημιουργία της ισπανικής (Alegret et al, 2015), της τσέχικης (Mazancova et al, 2017) και της ελληνικής έκδοσης (Kormas et al, 2018).…”