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Table 1 Naming test characteristics and utility in detecting naming deficits in neurocognitive disorders

From: Naming ability assessment in neurocognitive disorders: a clinician’s perspective

 

Stand-alone dysnomia tests

Dysnomia tests embedded in global cognitive examination tools

BNT

ANT

Wo-Fi

MINT 32 items

GBT/ GFT/ GNT

NAB Naming subtest

TDQ-30

VNT

ACE-III Naming subtest

MoCA Naming subtest

Items

60

50

50

32

30

31

30

55

16

3

Stimuli type

visual

auditory

auditory

visual

visual

visual

visual

visual

visual

visual

Time (in minutes)

< 20

< 20

< 15

< 15

< 15

< 10

< 10

< 10

< 5

< 1

Average test item frequency

1.717

2.26

1.52

2

2

1.75

1.872

2

2

Assessment parameters

Correctly named items

Correctly named items, tip-of-the tongue extended latency score, reaction time per response

Correctly named items

Correctly named items

Correctly named items

Correctly named items

Correctly named items

Correctly named items

Correctly named items

Correctly named items

Access

Available for purchase

Link

Open

Link

Open

Link

Open

Link

Available for purchase

GNT Link

GFT Link

GBT Link

Available for purchase

Link

Open

Link

Open

Link

Open

Link

Open

Link

Language Availability

More languages

English

German

English, Spanish

English

English

French

English

More languages

More languages

Validation studies

Knesevich JWm et al. 1986

Erdodi La et al. 2018

Hirsch J et al. 2016

Hirsch J et al. 2021

Camerer-Waldecker C et al. 2019

Stasenko A et al. 2019

Ahmed S et al. 2008

Sachs B et al. 2016

Durant J et al. 2021

MacOir J et al. 2021

Yochim BP et al. 2015

Modore MR et al. 2020

Calderon C et al. 2021

Moafmashhadi P et al. 2013

Neurocognitive disorders of validation samples

MiND, MaND due to AD, due to vascular brain disease, due to PD, due to Lewy bodies, due to mixed aetiologies

MiND, MaND due to AD, due to vascular brain disease, due to mixed aetiologies

MaND due to AD

MiND, MaND due to AD

MiND

MiND, MaND due to AD, due to PD, due to Lewy bodies

MiND, MaND due to AD

MiND, MaND due to AD, due to vascular brain disease, due to PD, due to mixed aetiologies

MaND due to AD

MaND due to AD, due to vascular brain disease, due to PD, due to FTLD, due to mixed aetiologies

Sensitivity

15–41%

69%

95%

75-83%

78%

79-80%

38%

72-79%

N/A

41%

Specificity

87-95%

81%

92%

70-81%

87%

73-78%

99%

80-85%

N/A

N/A

  1. BNT Boston naming test, ANT Auditory naming test, VNT Verbal naming test, Wo-Fi Test for finding word retrieval deficits, ACE-III Addenbrooke’s cognitive examination III, MINT Multilingual naming test, GBT/GFT/GNT Graded buildings test/Graded faces test/Graded naming test, NAB Neuropsychological assessment battery, TDQ-30 Test de denomination de Quebec, MoCA Montreal cognitive assessment, MiND Mild neurocognitive disorder, MaND Major neurocognitive disorder, AD Alzheimer’s disease, FTLD Frontotemporal lobar degeneration, PD Parkinson’s disease