Journal of Child and Adolescent Behavior
Open Access

Research Article

Relevance between Alzheimer’s Disease Patients and Normal Subjects Using Go/No-Go Tasks and Alzheimer Assessment Scores

¹Faculty of Education, Shinshu University, Nagano, Japan

²Faculty of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Shinshu University, Nagano, Japan

³Center of General Education and Humanities, Tokyo University of Science, Suwa, Chino, Japan

⁴Department of Early Childhood Education, Seisen Jogakuin College, Nagano, Japan

⁵Nagano Prefecture College, Nagano, Japan

⁶Matsumoto University, Matsumoto, Japan

⁷Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

⁸Health and Welfare Department, Minowa Town Office, Kamiina, Japan

*Corresponding Author:

Koji Terasawa
Faculty of Education, Shinshu University
Nagano 380-8544, Japan
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E-mail: kterasa@shinshu-u.ac.jp

Received Date: August 20, 2014; Accepted Date: September 18, 2014; Published Date: September 25, 2014

Citation: Terasawa K, Misaki S, Murata Y, Watanabe T and Terasawa S et al. (2014) Relevance between Alzheimer’s Disease Patients and Normal Subjects Using Go/No-Go Tasks and Alzheimer Assessment Scores. J Child Adolesc Behav 2:162. doi:10.4172/2375-4494.1000162

Copyright: © 2014 Terasawa K, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

It is a well-known fact that Alzheimer increases with aging. Early detection of Alzheimer has emerged as an important, because it can prevent of further deterioration of the disease. However, early detection is not always easy because of the lack of good methods to identify the early stage of Alzheimer. The screening tests of Alzheimer used around the world. These tests are relatively time-consuming, difficult and distressing for Alzheimer patients. We consider whether go/no-go task can become the screening test of the Alzheimer patient in future. This study compared results of the Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) and the go/no-go task for between Alzheimer disease patients and normal subjects. The average reaction time and number of total error of go/no-go task that Alzheimer patients were significantly higher than among the normal subjects. About correlation with MMSE and the go/no-go task, 6 items of MMSE had correlations of 4 or more test results concerning response time, forgets and mistakes of go/no-go tasks. These characteristics suggest that there is a possibility that go/no-go tasks could be applied as a measuring method when screening for early signs of Alzheimer.

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