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Table 1 Standard neuropsychological assessments used in this study

From: Can cognitive assessment really discriminate early stages of Alzheimer’s and behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia at initial clinical presentation?

Cognitive domain and subdomaina

Cognitive tests

First author, publication date [reference]

Dementia screening

MMSE

Folstein, 1975 [22]

Memory

 Verbal spana

VLMT trial 1

Helmstaedter, 2001 [46]

CERAD wordlist trial 1

Aebi, 2002 [47]

 Verbal learninga

VLMT trial 1–5

see above

CERAD wordlist trial 1–3

see above

 Verbal recalla

VLMT trial 6

see above

CERAD wordlist recall

see above

 Verbal recognitiona

VLMT trial 8 true

see above

CERAD wordlist recognition %

see above

 Visual recalla

CFT 3-minute recall

Meyers, 1996 [48]

CERAD figure recall

see above

Language

 Object naminga

Wortproduktionsprüfung (Word Production Test)

Blanken, 1999 [49]

CERAD Boston naming test 15

see above

Visuospatial skills

 Figure copya

CFT copy

see above

CERAD figure copy

see above

Executive function

 Semantic word fluency a

RWT- 1 minute category fluency “animals”

Aschenbrenner, 2000 [50]

 Phonematic word fluency a

RWT- 1 minute letter fluency “S”

see above

 Set shiftinga

TMT B

Tombaugh, 2004 [51]

 Digit span backwardsa

Wechsler Memory Scale – backward digit span

Härting, 2000 [52]

Attention

 Processing speeda

TMT A

see above

Praxis

 Pantomime of object usea

Cologne Apraxia Screening 1.1 and 1.2.

Weiss, 2013 [53]

 Imitation of limb posturesa

Cologne Apraxia Screening 2.2

see above

 Imitation of face posturesa

Cologne Apraxia Screening 2.1

see above

Social cognition

 Facial emotion recognitiona

Ekman Facial Emotion Recognition test (SEA)

Funkiewiez, 2012 [54]

  1. Abbreviations: CERAD Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer’s Disease neuropsychological test battery, CFT Complex Figure Test, MMSE Mini Mental State Examination, RWT Regensburg Word Fluency Test, SEA Social Cognition and Emotional Assessment, TMT Trail Making Test, VLMT Verbal Learning and Memory Test
  2. Column 1 displays all covered cognitive domains (bold) and subdomains. Column 2 displays the incorporated tests to cover the respective subdomains. Italicised tests display the alternative test set, which was employed for patients >65 years of age (Alzheimer’s disease 18 of 43, behavioural variant of frontotemporal dementia 4 of 26). For inter-test and inter-subdomain comparability in statistical analysis, individual test raw scores were z-transformed. Column 3 presents the first author’s name and the publication date of the normative data we used to estimate patients’ test performance
  3. aUsed for statistical analysis