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Performance of elderly White and African American community residents on the abbreviated CERAD Boston Naming Test.

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Fillenbaum, GG; Huber, M; Taussig, IM
Published in: J Clin Exp Neuropsychol
April 1997

Differences in the responses of an elderly biracial group of cognitively normal subjects to a 15-item short version of the Boston Naming Test developed for the Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer's Disease (CERAD) were examined. The subjects consisted of 103 Whites and 136 African Americans who were 70 years of age and older and living in a five-county urban and rural area of North Carolina. They were drawn from the Duke University site of the Established Populations for Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly (EPESE). All were cognitively normal. With gender, years of education, and age controlled, White subjects performed significantly better than did African American subjects. The items in this test were selected to represent words with a high, medium, and low frequency of occurrence in English. They did not, however, show the expected gradation for either racial group. Medium and low frequency items were of comparable difficulty for the two races. Hierarchical ordering of difficulty would be improved with minor rearrangement of items.

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J Clin Exp Neuropsychol

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1380-3395

Publication Date

April 1997

Volume

19

Issue

2

Start / End Page

204 / 210

Location

England

Related Subject Headings

  • White People
  • Sex Characteristics
  • Neuropsychological Tests
  • Male
  • Humans
  • Female
  • Experimental Psychology
  • Education
  • Black People
  • Alzheimer Disease
 

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Fillenbaum, G. G., Huber, M., & Taussig, I. M. (1997). Performance of elderly White and African American community residents on the abbreviated CERAD Boston Naming Test. J Clin Exp Neuropsychol, 19(2), 204–210. https://doi.org/10.1080/01688639708403851
Fillenbaum, G. G., M. Huber, and I. M. Taussig. “Performance of elderly White and African American community residents on the abbreviated CERAD Boston Naming Test.J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 19, no. 2 (April 1997): 204–10. https://doi.org/10.1080/01688639708403851.
Fillenbaum GG, Huber M, Taussig IM. Performance of elderly White and African American community residents on the abbreviated CERAD Boston Naming Test. J Clin Exp Neuropsychol. 1997 Apr;19(2):204–10.
Fillenbaum, G. G., et al. “Performance of elderly White and African American community residents on the abbreviated CERAD Boston Naming Test.J Clin Exp Neuropsychol, vol. 19, no. 2, Apr. 1997, pp. 204–10. Pubmed, doi:10.1080/01688639708403851.
Fillenbaum GG, Huber M, Taussig IM. Performance of elderly White and African American community residents on the abbreviated CERAD Boston Naming Test. J Clin Exp Neuropsychol. 1997 Apr;19(2):204–210.
Journal cover image

Published In

J Clin Exp Neuropsychol

DOI

ISSN

1380-3395

Publication Date

April 1997

Volume

19

Issue

2

Start / End Page

204 / 210

Location

England

Related Subject Headings

  • White People
  • Sex Characteristics
  • Neuropsychological Tests
  • Male
  • Humans
  • Female
  • Experimental Psychology
  • Education
  • Black People
  • Alzheimer Disease