Journal article
Clinical measures of prospective memory in amnestic mild cognitive impairment
J Delprado, G Kinsella, B Ong, K Pike, D Ames, E Storey, M Saling, L Clare, E Mullaly, E Rand
Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society | Published : 2012
Abstract
Recent research has established that individuals with amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI) have impaired prospective memory (PM); however, findings regarding differential deficits on time-based versus event-based PM have been less clear. Furthermore, the diagnostic utility of PM measures has received scant attention. Healthy older adults (n = 84) and individuals with aMCI (n = 84) were compared on the Cambridge Prospective Memory Test (CAMPROMPT) and two single-trial event-based PM tasks. The aMCI participants showed global impairment on all PM measures. Measures of retrospective memory and complex attention predicted both time and event PM performance for the aMCI group. Each of the PM..
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Funding Acknowledgements
We are grateful to the Cognitive Dementia and Memory Services (CDAMS) at Caulfield Hospital, Melbourne Health, Austin Health, St. George's Hospital, Wantirna Hospital, Barwon Health and Bendigo Health for referring participants with MCI and for allowing use of their facilities. We thank A/Prof Michael Woodward, Dr Alasdair Mander and Bundoora Extended Care Centre CDAMS for patient referrals. Thanks to Dr Sarah Price, Nadia Petruccelli, Samuel Parsons, and Fenny Muliadi for their assistance with coordination of the study, recruitment, and data management, and to the numerous research assessors assisting with data collection. This research received funding from a National Health and Medical Research Council grant. The authors have no conflict of interest.