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Background: Neuropsychological testing plays a cardinal role in the diagnosis and monitoring of Alzheimer's disease. A major concern is represented by the heterogeneity of the neuropsychological batteries currently adopted in memory clinics and healthcare centers. The current study aimed to solve this issue. Methods: Following the initiative of the University of Washington's National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center (NACC), we presented the Italian adaptation of the Neuropsychological Test Battery of the Uniform Data Set (I-UDSNB). We collected data from 433 healthy Italian individuals and employed regression models to evaluate the impact of demographic variables on the performance, deriving the reference norms. Results: Higher education and lower age were associated with a better performance in the majority of tests, while sex affected only fluency tests and Digit Span Forward. Conclusions: The I-UDSNB offers a valuable and harmonized tool for neuropsychological testing in Italy, to be used in clinical and research settings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reference 1 Conca F, Esposito V, Rundo F. Italian adaptation of the Uniform Data Set Neuropsychological Test Battery (I-UDSNB 1.0): development and normative data. B Correction: Alz Res Therapy 14, 113 (2022) b B https://doi.org/10.1186/s13195-022-01056-x b Following publication of the original article [[1]], the authors deleted affiliation 18 of the author Vincenzo Silani SP 16,17,18 sp for the reason that the funding agency (Italian Ministry of Health) accepts a maximum of 2 affiliations for each researcher. Correction: Italian adaptation of the Uniform Data Set Neuropsychological Test Battery (I-UDSNB 1.0): development and normative data. [Extracted from the article]