Everyday Memory Impairment of Patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment

• Published in: Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders Vol. 19; no. 5-6; pp. 331 - 337
• Main Authors: Kazui, Hiroaki, Matsuda, Akemi, Hirono, Nobutsugu, Mori, Etsuro, Miyoshi, Noriko, Ogino, Atsushi, Tokunaga, Hiromasa, Ikejiri, Yoshitaka, Takeda, Masatoshi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland Karger 01.05.2005; S. Karger AG
• Subjects: Aged; Alzheimer Disease - diagnosis; Alzheimer Disease - psychology; Anesthesia. Intensive care medicine. Transfusions. Cell therapy and gene therapy; Biological and medical sciences; Cognition Disorders - diagnosis; Cognition Disorders - psychology; Degenerative and inherited degenerative diseases of the nervous system. Leukodystrophies. Prion diseases; Emergency and intensive cardiocirculatory care. Cardiogenic shock. Coronary intensive care; Female; Humans; Intensive care medicine; Male; Medical sciences; Memory Disorders - diagnosis; Memory Disorders - psychology; Mental Recall; Middle Aged; Neurology; Neuropharmacology; Original Research Article; Pharmacology. Drug treatments; Psychoanaleptics: cns stimulant, antidepressant agent, nootropic agent, mood stabilizer..., (alzheimer disease); Psychological Tests - standards; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychopharmacology; Reproducibility of Results; Sensitivity and Specificity; Severity of Illness Index; Rivermead Behavioral Memory Test; Prospective memory; Everyday memory; Diagnosis; Mild cognitive impairment; Alzheimer's disease; Human; Memory disorder; Nervous system diseases; Cognitive disorder; Alzheimer disease; Memory; Cerebral disorder; Central nervous system disease; mild cognitive impairment; Degenerative disease; Dementia
• ISSN: 1420-8008; 1421-9824
• DOI: 10.1159/000084559

We evaluated everyday memory impairment in 24 patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) with the Rivermead Behavioral Memory Test (RBMT) and compared the scores with those of 48 age-, sex- and education-matched normal controls (NC) and 48 age-, sex- and education-matched Alzheimer disease (AD) patients. Overall everyday memory was impaired in MCI patients but the severity was milder than that in AD patients. The MCI patients showed impairment of everyday memory tasks requiring delayed recall. But they could normally perform tasks immediately after memorizing, except for recalling and retracing a simple new route. The total Profile score correctly classified 100% of the MCI patients and 91.7% of NC, thus demonstrating the usefulness of the RBMT for diagnosing MCI patients. Prospective memory tasks were not useful for detecting the patients with MCI.