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Weak central coherence in patients with Alzheimer's disease(•)
Central coherence refers to the ability to interpret details of information into a whole. To date, the concept of central coherence is mainly used in research of autism, Asperger's syndrome and recently in the research on eating disorders. The main purpose of the present study was to examine ce...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4146077/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25206723 http://dx.doi.org/10.3969/j.issn.1673-5374.2013.08.011 |
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description | Central coherence refers to the ability to interpret details of information into a whole. To date, the concept of central coherence is mainly used in research of autism, Asperger's syndrome and recently in the research on eating disorders. The main purpose of the present study was to examine central coherence in patients with Alzheimer's disease. Nine Alzheimer's disease patients and ten age- and gender-matched control subjects, who differed significantly in neurological assessment, were shown a picture of a fire. Compared to control subjects, the Alzheimer's disease patients described the picture in a fragmented way by mentioning details and separate objects without perceiving the context of the fire. In conclusion, patients with Alzheimer's disease are at the weak end of central coherence, and hence suffer from a fragmented view of their surroundings. The findings have important clinical implications for the understanding of patients with Alzheimer's diseaseand also for the possibility of caregivers to meet the Alzheimer's disease individual in an appropriate way in the everyday care. |
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spelling | pubmed-41460772014-09-09 Weak central coherence in patients with Alzheimer's disease(•) Mårdh, Selina Neural Regen Res Basic Research in Neural Regeneration Central coherence refers to the ability to interpret details of information into a whole. To date, the concept of central coherence is mainly used in research of autism, Asperger's syndrome and recently in the research on eating disorders. The main purpose of the present study was to examine central coherence in patients with Alzheimer's disease. Nine Alzheimer's disease patients and ten age- and gender-matched control subjects, who differed significantly in neurological assessment, were shown a picture of a fire. Compared to control subjects, the Alzheimer's disease patients described the picture in a fragmented way by mentioning details and separate objects without perceiving the context of the fire. In conclusion, patients with Alzheimer's disease are at the weak end of central coherence, and hence suffer from a fragmented view of their surroundings. The findings have important clinical implications for the understanding of patients with Alzheimer's diseaseand also for the possibility of caregivers to meet the Alzheimer's disease individual in an appropriate way in the everyday care. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013-03-15 /pmc/articles/PMC4146077/ /pubmed/25206723 http://dx.doi.org/10.3969/j.issn.1673-5374.2013.08.011 Text en Copyright: © Neural Regeneration Research http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Basic Research in Neural Regeneration Mårdh, Selina Weak central coherence in patients with Alzheimer's disease(•) |
title | Weak central coherence in patients with Alzheimer's disease(•) |
title_full | Weak central coherence in patients with Alzheimer's disease(•) |
title_fullStr | Weak central coherence in patients with Alzheimer's disease(•) |
title_full_unstemmed | Weak central coherence in patients with Alzheimer's disease(•) |
title_short | Weak central coherence in patients with Alzheimer's disease(•) |
title_sort | weak central coherence in patients with alzheimer's disease(•) |
topic | Basic Research in Neural Regeneration |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4146077/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25206723 http://dx.doi.org/10.3969/j.issn.1673-5374.2013.08.011 |
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