TY - JOUR
T1 - Validation of the brief test of attention in patients with Huntington's disease and amnesia
AU - Schretlen, David
AU - Brandt, Jason
AU - Bobholz, Julie Hoida
N1 - Funding Information:
* This research was supported, in part, by,NIH Grant NS16375 and the John Boogher Fund for Memory Disorders Research. The authors wish to thank Dr. Frederick Bylsma and Dr. Jill Rich for their assistance with data collection. The Brief Test of Attention’ may be obtained by contacting the first author. Address correspondence to: David Schretlen, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins Hospital, 600 North Wolfe Street, Meyer 218, Baltimore, MD 21287-7218, (410) 955-3268, USA. Accepted for publication: April 26, 1995.
PY - 1996
Y1 - 1996
N2 - We report two studies of auditory divided attention in patients with Huntington's disease (HD) and organic amnesia using the Brief Test of Attention (BTA). In the first study, 27 patients with HD were individually matched with 27 normal control subjects on the basis of age and Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) scores. The patients and normal adults also did not differ in sex, race, or education. Despite the fact that mean MMSE scores were 28.8 (SD = 1.0) for both groups, the HD patients scored three SDs below the mean of normal adults on the BTA. In the second study, 9 nondemented amnesic patients and 9 normal adults who were individually matched for age, sex, race, and education produced no significant group differences on the Brief Test of Attention. These results show that BTA performance is impaired in a group known to have severe defects in attention, and that it does not require intact memory for successful performance.
AB - We report two studies of auditory divided attention in patients with Huntington's disease (HD) and organic amnesia using the Brief Test of Attention (BTA). In the first study, 27 patients with HD were individually matched with 27 normal control subjects on the basis of age and Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) scores. The patients and normal adults also did not differ in sex, race, or education. Despite the fact that mean MMSE scores were 28.8 (SD = 1.0) for both groups, the HD patients scored three SDs below the mean of normal adults on the BTA. In the second study, 9 nondemented amnesic patients and 9 normal adults who were individually matched for age, sex, race, and education produced no significant group differences on the Brief Test of Attention. These results show that BTA performance is impaired in a group known to have severe defects in attention, and that it does not require intact memory for successful performance.
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U2 - 10.1080/13854049608406667
DO - 10.1080/13854049608406667
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0029872806
SN - 0920-1637
VL - 10
SP - 90
EP - 95
JO - Clinical Neuropsychologist
JF - Clinical Neuropsychologist
IS - 1
ER -