Arambula Omar Gurrola, Padovani Flavia Helena Pereira, Corrente Jose Eduardo, Schelp Andreas Batista, Sanches Felipe Jacques, Amorim Rogerio Martins, Schelp Arthur Oscar
Department of Neurology, Psychology and Psychiatry, Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu, Universidade Estadual Paulista "Júlio de Mesquita Filho" - Botucatu, SP, Brazil.
Statistical Department, Bioscience Institute, Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu, Universidade Estadual Paulista "Júlio de Mesquita Filho" - Botucatu, SP, Brazil.
Dement Neuropsychol. 2021 Jul-Sep;15(3):373-380. doi: 10.1590/1980-57642021dn15-030010.
The validity and applicability of tactile battery tests for the diagnosis and medical follow-up of patients with Alzheimer's disease and other dementia syndromes do not have their usefulness well understood in clinical practice. While haptic abilities in older individuals receive less attention, in earlier stages of human life they are well focused on. There are even fewer studies on tactile memory, including episodic memory of demented individuals with or without sensorial limitations. The applicability of a new haptic memory battery was evaluated in patients with Alzheimer's disease with mild or moderate commitment.
The aim of this study is to apply a battery based on tactile perception, recognition, and recollection of everyday objects in patients with Alzheimer's disease, testing tactile delayed recall memory discrimination and late recognition to compare validated visual and verbal tests.
Tactile-, visual-, and verbal-based memory performance was registered in 21 patients diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.
Except for tactile identification, it showed that there was a close relationship between the three sensory modalities of memory, with an apparent better performance of tactile incidental memory and recognition compared with the test with pictures.
The haptic evaluation of memory demonstrated applicability in the evaluation of memory dysfunction in patients with Alzheimer's disease. Further studies are needed to establish the sensibility and specificity of the proposed test that had a small sample size and many limitations.
触觉电池测试在阿尔茨海默病和其他痴呆综合征患者的诊断及医学随访中的有效性和适用性，在临床实践中尚未得到充分理解。虽然老年人的触觉能力较少受到关注，但在人类生命的早期阶段，它们却备受关注。关于触觉记忆的研究甚至更少，包括有或没有感官限制的痴呆个体的情景记忆。一种新的触觉记忆电池在轻度或中度痴呆的阿尔茨海默病患者中的适用性进行了评估。
本研究的目的是在阿尔茨海默病患者中应用基于日常物品触觉感知、识别和回忆的电池测试，测试触觉延迟回忆记忆辨别和晚期识别，以比较经过验证的视觉和语言测试。
对21名被诊断为阿尔茨海默病的患者进行了基于触觉、视觉和语言的记忆表现记录。
除触觉识别外，结果显示记忆的三种感觉模态之间存在密切关系，与图片测试相比，触觉偶发记忆和识别表现明显更好。
记忆的触觉评估在阿尔茨海默病患者记忆功能障碍评估中显示出适用性。由于样本量小且存在许多局限性，需要进一步研究以确定所提出测试的敏感性和特异性。
