Sensitivity and test-retest reliability of the international shopping list test in assessing verbal learning and memory in mild alzheimer's disease

Abstract

The International Shopping List Test (ISLT) was developed specifically to assess verbal list learning and memory in people from different language and cultural backgrounds. In this paper, we describe three studies that examined the sensitivity and reliability of the ISLT in assessing verbal list learning and memory impairment in English-speaking people with mild Alzheimer's disease (AD) and evaluated whether measures of retention-weighted recall (RWR) provided greater sensitivity and/or reliability relative to conventional list learning performance measures (e.g., free recall). In Study 1, we compared ISLT performance between patients with AD and matched controls and found that AD patients s..