Validation of the Affective Word List as a measure of verbal learning and memory

2015 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 316-324 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica E. Meyer ◽  
Peter A. Arnett
2001 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 544-555 ◽  
Author(s):  
HECTOR M. GONZÁLEZ ◽  
DAN MUNGAS ◽  
BRUCE R. REED ◽  
SARAH MARSHALL ◽  
MARY N. HAAN

Word-list verbal learning and memory tests with appropriate normative data can be highly sensitive to cognitive decline, but there are significant limitations of such tests available for use with older Hispanic and non-Hispanic people living in the US. The purpose of this study was to (1) create a new word-list learning and memory test in both English and Spanish and, (2) validate it with respect to sensitivity to cognitive impairment, and (3) develop statistical corrections for the effects of significant demographic variables, including ethnicity, language of administration, age, education, and gender. A community dwelling sample of 801 English- and Spanish-speaking older people was employed. Recall on learning trials and the delayed recall trial of the word-list learning test were strongly related to the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), moderately related to age, and weakly related to gender and education. The relationship of word-list variables and the MMSE did not significantly differ across ethnicity/language groups. Regression coefficients for demographic variables were used in a statistical correction formula to adjust raw word-list scores, and then to develop specific percentile cut-off values. (JINS, 2001, 7, 544–555.)


2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (Supplement_2) ◽  
pp. ii54-ii54
Author(s):  
Jeffrey S Wefel ◽  
Minhee Won ◽  
Andrew Lassman ◽  
Yaakov Stern ◽  
Tony Wang ◽  
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Abstract RTOG 3508/AbbVie M13-813/INTELLANCE-1 was a phase 3 trial of depatuximab-mafodotin (depatux-m, formerly ABT-414) that accrued 639 patients with EGFR-amplified newly diagnosed GBM. At the pre-specified interim OS analysis, the futility criteria were met and there was no survival benefit from adding depatux-m to SOC. Pre-specified secondary NCF analyses included time to decline in verbal learning and memory as assessed by the HVLT-R Total Recall based on the reliable change index. Exploratory NCF analyses examined changes in other HVLT-R outcomes over time. As corneal epitheliopathy causing visual impairment is a known toxicity of depatux-m, NCF tests that did not depend on visual acuity were employed. NCF testing occurred at baseline, day 1 of the first cycle of adjuvant depatux-m, every other cycle (i.e., 8 weeks) thereafter, and at progression. Compliance with test completion was 95% at screening and 80%, 70%, 58%, 51%, 47% thereafter through cycle 9. The most common reasons for missing data was site error. Time to HVLT-R Total Recall decline trended worse in the depatux-m arm compared to placebo but the difference was not significant (12 month deterioration: 41.2%, 95% CI: 3.50–47.2 vs 32.4%, 95% CI: 26.6- 38.4, p=0.052). The depatux-m arm, in comparison to the placebo arm, showed greater decline from baseline on the HVLT-R at the following time points: cycle 3 (Total Recall: mean= -1.8, SD=5.7 vs mean= -0.5, SD=5.5, respectively, p=0.046; Delayed Recall: mean= -1.1, SD=3.0 vs. mean= -0.2, SD=2.7, respectively, p=0.01), cycle 7 (Total Recall: mean= -0.6, SD=5.1 vs mean= 1.4, SD=5.0, respectively, p=0.009; Delayed Recall: mean -0.6, SD=3.0 vs. mean= 0.5, SD=2.7, respectively, p=0.01), and cycle 9 (Delayed Recall: mean=-0.4, SD=2.7 vs. mean= 0.8, SD=2.4, respectively, p=0.003). Depatux-m added to concurrent chemoradiation and adjuvant temozolomide was associated with faster time to deterioration and worse episodic learning and memory over time than placebo.


2009 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 534-538 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa L. H. Võ ◽  
Markus Conrad ◽  
Lars Kuchinke ◽  
Karolina Urton ◽  
Markus J. Hofmann ◽  
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2018 ◽  
Vol 90 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noora Lindgren ◽  
Jaakko Kaprio ◽  
Juha O Rinne ◽  
Eero Vuoksimaa

ObjectiveTo investigate the effect of familial risk for dementia on verbal learning by comparing cognitively healthy twins who had demented co-twins with cognitively healthy twins who had cognitively healthy co-twins.Methods4367 twins aged ≥65 years including 1375 twin pairs (533 monozygotic (MZ), 823 dizygotic (DZ) and 19 unknown zygosity pairs) from a population-based Finnish Twin Cohort participated in a cross-sectional telephone assessment for dementia and in a single free recall trial of a 10-item word list.ResultsCognitively healthy twins with demented co-twins (n=101 pairs) recalled less words than cognitively healthy twins with cognitively healthy co-twins (n=770 pairs) after adjusting for age, sex and education, B=− 0.44, 95%  CI (−0.73 to −0.14), p=0.003. The effect size was similar in MZ (n=31) twins (3.88 vs 4.29 words, B=−0.41, 95%  CI (−0.96 to 0.13)) and DZ (n=66) twins (3.70 vs 4.17 words, B=−0.47, 95%  CI (−0.84 to −0.10)). The heritability estimate of immediate recall (IR) was 0.37, 95%  CI (0.21 to 0.43).ConclusionsThe results demonstrate that familial risk for dementia is reflected in the IR performance of cognitively healthy older persons. The finding of poorer IR performance in non-affected siblings compared with the general population, together with substantial heritability of IR, supports IR as a useful endophenotype for molecular genetic studies of dementia.


2015 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 1222-1236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monika Riegel ◽  
Małgorzata Wierzba ◽  
Marek Wypych ◽  
Łukasz Żurawski ◽  
Katarzyna Jednoróg ◽  
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1996 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 422-422
Author(s):  
L. Manade ◽  
A.I. Troster ◽  
J.A. Fields ◽  
A.M. Paolo ◽  
W.C. Koller

2013 ◽  
Vol 121 ◽  
pp. 39-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Torres-Agustín ◽  
Y. Rodríguez-Agudelo ◽  
A. Schilmann ◽  
R. Solís-Vivanco ◽  
S. Montes ◽  
...  

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. 214-225
Author(s):  
Nongmeikapam Premika Devi

The present study examines the relationship of depression and the neuropsychologicalfunction of attention, planning and auditory verbal learning and memory among individualswith HIV/AIDS. 200 subjects who were HIV/AIDS positive (100 males and 100 females) andwere within age range of 20 to 50 years and minimum education level of 8th standard weretaken. The result indicates that Depression slows down the performance of attention; alsodepression most likely decreases the function of auditory verbal learning and memory


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