Impaired Insight in Alzheimer's Disease
Abstract
We Studied Insight into Illness in 41 Patients with Probable Alzheimer's Disease. an Impaired Insight Score Was Developed by Measuring Discrepancies between Patient Report and Caregiver Report on Standard Instruments of Activities of Daily Living. Insight Was More Impaired in Subjects with Greater Dementia Severity and Subjects with Paranoid Delusions. in a Multivariate Analysis, the Best Neuropsychological Predictors of Impaired Insight Were the Continuous Performance Test and the Visual Reproduction Test. We Speculate that the Impaired Insight of Alzheimer's Disease Has Two Components: Confabulation Reflecting Prefrontal Dysfunction and Anosognosia Reflecting Right-Hemisphere Dysfunction. (J Geriatr Psychiatry Neurol 1991;4:189-193). © 1991, Sage Publications. All Rights Reserved.
Recommended Citation
C. A. Mangone et al., "Impaired Insight in Alzheimer's Disease," Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology, vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 189 - 193, SAGE Publications, Jan 1991.
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Department(s)
Chemistry
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
1552-5708; 0891-9887
Document Type
Article - Journal
Document Version
Citation
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text
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English
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Publication Date
01 Jan 1991
PubMed ID
1789906
Comments
National Institute on Aging, Grant K08AG000350