Key takeaways:
Participants in the MBI+/SCD+ group had poorer overall performance on immediate recall.
Those found to have MBI, with and without SCD, did poorer overall on trails A and B tests.
In a cohort of midlife adults, mild behavioral impairment may be a reliable marker for impaired executive function, regardless of subjective cognitive decline, in the early stage of Alzheimer’s disease, according to a presenter.
“Both [subjective cognitive decline] and [mild behavioral impairment] have been added as diagnostic categories to the [Uniform Data Set, version four],” Carol A. Van Hulle, PhD, associate scientist in the division of geriatrics and gerontology in the department of medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, told attendees at the Alzhei