Abstract:Background: Amnestic syndrome of the medial temporal type defined by "recall deficit that does not improve significantly or does not normalise with cueing after effective encoding of information has been previously controlled" has been shown to be able to predict conversion to dementia due to Alzheimer disease (AD) in patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI). The comparison with other standard memory tests has not been performed yet. Methods: A total of 139 nondemented patients with memory complaints (pat… Show more
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