1. Relación entre funciones ejecutivas y trastornos neuropsiquiátricos en pacientes con Alzheimer de diferente grado de severidad.
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Cañas Lucendo, Manuel, Perea Bartolomé, María Victoria, and Ladera Fernandez, Valentina
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EXECUTIVE function , *ALZHEIMER'S patients , *NEUROBEHAVIORAL disorders , *RESPONSE inhibition , *ALZHEIMER'S disease - Abstract
The aim of the study was to investigate executive functions (EF) and neuropsychiatric disorders (ND) in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) according to the degree of severity, compared to subjects without cognitive impairment (SWCI). Fifty patients with AD and 60 SWCI were studied in a non-experimental-crosssectional study with non-probabilistic sampling based on a series of inclusion criteria. The frontal evaluation battery and the neuropsychiatric inventory were applied and the results showed that there is a negative relationship of moderate intensity between EF and ND, regardless of the degree of severity of AD. It can be concluded that, in the mild phase, euphoria is related both to sensitivity towards interference and to inhibitory control; in moderate phase irritability is positively related to sensitivity towards interference; and in the moderately severe phase, motor programming is negatively related to agitation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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