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A mosquito bites and a butterfly flies: A specific response type of frontal patients in a similarity task.
Neuropsychologia 2018 August
BACKGROUND: Patients with neurodegenerative diseases affecting the frontal lobes have difficulties in categorization tasks, such as the similarity tasks. They give two types of unusual response to the question: "In what way are an orange and a banana alike?", either a differentiation ("one is yellow, the other is orange") or a concrete similarity ("they are sweet").
OBJECTIVE: To characterize the categorization deficit of frontal patients and develop a short diagnostic tool to assess the nature of these difficulties.
METHOD: We analyzed the responses provided by frontal and non-frontal neurodegenerative patients in a novel verbal similarity task (SimiCat). We included 40 frontal patients with behavioral variant fronto-temporal dementia (bvFTD) and progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), 23 patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and 41 healthy matched controls. Responses that did not correspond to the expected taxonomic category (e.g.: fruits) were considered as errors.
RESULTS: All patients groups were impaired at the SimiCat test compared to controls. Differentiation errors were specific to frontal patients. Receiver operating characteristic analyses showed that a cut-off of two differentiation errors or more achieved 85% sensitivity of 100% specificity to discriminate bvFTD from AD. A short version of the test (<5 min) showed similar discriminative validity as the full version.
CONCLUSION: Differentiation responses were specific to frontal patients. The SimiCat demonstrates good discriminative validity to differentiate between bvFTD and AD. The short version of the test is a promising diagnostic tool that will need validation in future studies.
OBJECTIVE: To characterize the categorization deficit of frontal patients and develop a short diagnostic tool to assess the nature of these difficulties.
METHOD: We analyzed the responses provided by frontal and non-frontal neurodegenerative patients in a novel verbal similarity task (SimiCat). We included 40 frontal patients with behavioral variant fronto-temporal dementia (bvFTD) and progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), 23 patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and 41 healthy matched controls. Responses that did not correspond to the expected taxonomic category (e.g.: fruits) were considered as errors.
RESULTS: All patients groups were impaired at the SimiCat test compared to controls. Differentiation errors were specific to frontal patients. Receiver operating characteristic analyses showed that a cut-off of two differentiation errors or more achieved 85% sensitivity of 100% specificity to discriminate bvFTD from AD. A short version of the test (<5 min) showed similar discriminative validity as the full version.
CONCLUSION: Differentiation responses were specific to frontal patients. The SimiCat demonstrates good discriminative validity to differentiate between bvFTD and AD. The short version of the test is a promising diagnostic tool that will need validation in future studies.
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