Effects of age, education and gender in the Consortium to Establish a Registry for the Alzheimer's Disease (CERAD)-Neuropsychological Assessment Battery for Cantonese-speaking Chinese elders

Liu, Karen P.Y.; Kuo, Michael Chih Chien; Tang, Kin-chung; Chau, Allison W. S.; Ho, Iris H. T.; Kwok, Matthew P. H.; Chan, Wing Chi; Choi, Roy H. K.; Lam, Natalie; Chu, Mary M. L.; Chu, Leung‐Wing

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“…The influence of sex in the CANNS sample relative to most other (Western) RAVLT norms may be related to cultural and cohort factors. Similar to the results of this study, Liu et al () also found that the only subtest from a Cantonese version of the Neuropsychological Assessment Battery (NAB) that varied by sex was Word List Memory. These authors noted that this was contrary to studies conducted on North American and Korean samples, which revealed an effect for age only, across most tests of the NAB.…”

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The Chinese Australian Neuropsychological Normative Study: Neuropsychological Test Norms for Chinese Australians Aged 55–90-Years

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Shores

2018

Australian Psychologist

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Objective: Given Australia's rapidly ageing population, demand for neuropsychological assessment to assist with the diagnosis and treatment/ management of dementia and stroke will increase. Accurate and reliable neuropsychological assessment is dependent on the availability of appropriate normative data. Although more than a quarter of the Australian population comprises culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) individuals, there have been no CALD-specific normative studies published in Australia to date. The primary purpose of the current study was to collect norms on Australia's largest and one of its fastest growing CALD groups, Chinese Australians. Other aims included delineation of the influence of demographic factors and assessment of reliability coefficients of neuropsychological test scores for Chinese Australians. Method: A battery of neuropsychological tests was administered to N = 145 community dwelling Chinese Australians aged 55-87 years with the assistance of Chinese-speaking interpreters. Results: Multivariate analysis of variance revealed a significant influence of demographic factors across most test scores and norms were provided by the relevant stratifications. The Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test (RAVLT) and Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Third Edition (WAIS-III) Digit Symbol Coding (DSC) emerged as the most reliable tests for use with Chinese Australians. Conclusion: The influence of demographic variables and reliability coefficients of neuropsychological tests developed for dominant western cultural groups cannot be assumed to be the same across CALD groups. Use of CALD-specific norms is recommended to increase the reliability and validity of neuropsychological testing.

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The Chinese Australian Neuropsychological Normative Study: Neuropsychological Test Norms for Chinese Australians Aged 55–90-Years

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2018

Australian Psychologist

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“…Regarding age, our results are consistent with the scientific literature, showing that younger participants registered lower reaction times and execution times than older and higher performance between the whole ST tasks and the related SGs (Birch & Bloom, 2004;Craik & Salthouse, 2011;De Luca et al, 2003). Even results on education reflected coherence with previous works, showing that individuals with higher education performed better than individuals with lower education in ST and the narrative SG (Ardila et al, 2010;Das et al, 2006;Liu et al, 2011;Mathuranath et al, 2007;Ostrosky-Solis et al, 1998). More in detail, the main finding about education refers to higher-order EFs performance, as cognitive flexibility and planning abilities, resulting on better performance in participants with higher educational levels.…”

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confidence: 91%

“…Numerous age studies on normal functioning showed that the highest performance of EFs abilities is between 20 and 29 years, weakening progressively in later adulthood (Birch & Bloom, 2004;Craik & Salthouse, 2011;De Luca et al, 2003). Otherwise, educational level has related to higher EFs performance (Ardila et al, 2010;Das et al, 2006;Liu et al, 2011;Mathuranath et al, 2007;Ostrosky-Solis et al, 1998).…”

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Novel supports to the assessment of cognitive functions through the combined use of technologies and subjective and objective measurements

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Cognitive functions include all the processes through which an individual perceives, records, maintains, recovers, manipulates, uses and expresses information that are involved in any everyday activity. The traditional cognitive functioning assessment belongs to the applied neuropsychological science that focuses on the evaluation of the specific cognitive components through the recollection of observable behaviors during specific activities. The main standardized tools can be divided in three main groups: short scales of cognitive tracking testsquestionnaires, general neuropsychological batteries, and specific tests. These tools are well-validated and riable but, in the last decade, several research have shown that some patients can perform these neuropsychological tests well, even when they have significant difficulties in adapting their behaviors to daily life activities. This could depend on the fact that neuropsychological tests are too abstract, decontextualized and do not reflect daily life activities. According to this, more recently, a new approach has substantially increased, potentially providing a higher ecological validity in functional cognitive abilities assessment than standardized approach: the use of advanced technological systems for neuropsychological assessment (ATSNA). ATSNA refer to a set of devices and software applications such as computerized tests, fun and interactive fantasy serious games (SG), and/or simulated virtual (VR) and/or augmented (AR) reality systems that go beyond traditional assessment tests and that supply the possibility to deliver controlled and dynamic stimuli, in ecologically valid, and secure environments. Technologically, ATSNA can be rendered through a non-immersive (2D) screen in which interaction is possible thanks to a keyboard or a mouse or through more immersive head mounted display systems (3D) in which the human eye-gaze and (virtual) hands allow subjects to interact with the synthetic elements. Hence, by developing an ATSNA system that allows subject to become protagonist in an ATS environment, cognitive functions can be assessed as if he/she was evaluated in a real-simulated environment. In fact, although to date several 2D and 3D Contents

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“…Conversely, SPT expression negatively correlated with growth, i.e., the SPT level steadily decreased with age. The incidence of AD was higher in women than that in men (36), which also might be related to higher SPT protein level and lower miR-181c, -137, -29a/b-1 levels in the female population (35). Interestingly, it has been reported that a high-fat diet could increase plasma level of ceramides, thereby exacerbating the burden of Aβ deposition in animal models.…”

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The Role of MicroRNAs in Aβ Deposition and Tau Phosphorylation in Alzheimer’s Disease

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Alzheimer’s disease (AD), with main clinical features of progressive impairment in cognitive and behavioral functions, is the most common degenerative disease of the central nervous system. Recent evidence showed that microRNAs (miRNAs) played important roles in the pathological progression of AD. In this article, we reviewed the promising role of miRNAs in both Aβ deposition and Tau phosphorylation, two key pathological characters in the pathological progression of AD, which might be helpful for the understanding of pathogenesis and the development of new strategies of clinical diagnosis and treatment of AD.

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Effects of age, education and gender in the Consortium to Establish a Registry for the Alzheimer's Disease (CERAD)-Neuropsychological Assessment Battery for Cantonese-speaking Chinese elders

Cited by 28 publications

References 9 publications

The Chinese Australian Neuropsychological Normative Study: Neuropsychological Test Norms for Chinese Australians Aged 55–90-Years

The Chinese Australian Neuropsychological Normative Study: Neuropsychological Test Norms for Chinese Australians Aged 55–90-Years

Novel supports to the assessment of cognitive functions through the combined use of technologies and subjective and objective measurements

The Role of MicroRNAs in Aβ Deposition and Tau Phosphorylation in Alzheimer’s Disease

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