Eleni-Zacharoula Georgiou, Maria Skondra, Marina Charalampopoulou, Panagiotis Felemegkas, Asimina Pachi, Georgia Stafylidou, Dimitrios Papazachariou, Robert Perneczky, Vasileios Thomopoulos, Antonios Politis, Iracema Leroi, Polychronis Economou, Panagiotis Alexopoulos
BACKGROUND: Detecting impaired naming capacity contributes to the detection of mild (MildND) and major (MajorND) neurocognitive disorder due to Alzheimer's disease (AD). The Test for Finding Word retrieval deficits (WoFi) is a new, 50-item, auditory stimuli-based instrument. OBJECTIVE: The study aimed to adapt WoFi to the Greek language, to develop a short version of WoFi (WoFi-brief), to compare the item frequency and the utility of both instruments with the naming subtest of the widely used Addenbrooke's cognitive examination III (ACEIIINaming) in detecting MildND and MajorND due to AD...
June 30, 2023: European Journal of Ageing