Mental deterioration battery (MDB): mean scores (SD) obtained by patients with FTLD and those with dAD
| FTLD (n=10) | dAD (n=14) | Cut off1-150 | |
| Visual memory | 14.6 (3.1) | 13.6 (3.3) | 13.8 |
| Rey's auditory verbal learning test | |||
| Immediate recall | 20.8 (3.7) | 17.1 (5.9) | 28.5 |
| Delayed recall | 1.2 (0.9) | 2.1 (1.9) | 4.6 |
| Delayed recognition1-151 | 73.3 (8.0) | 82.9 (7.7) | 89.6 |
| Phonological verbal fluency | 20.8 (8.8) | 13.8 (7.8) | 17.3 |
| Word generation (semantic categories) | 8.7 (4.2) | 8.1 (5.5) | 15.5 |
| Copying drawings1-152 | 7.9 (3.6) | 5.9 (3.0) | 7.2 |
| Copying drawings with landmarks1-152 | 63.1 (8.9) | 51.6 (7.5) | 61.8 |
| Digit span forward | 5.8 (1.7) | 5.0 (0.9) | 7.3 |
| Digit span backward | 3.1 (1.1) | 2.1 (1.3) | 5.2 |
| Raven's coloured progressive matrices | 25.4 (5.4) | 14.8 (4.5) | 18.9 |
| Temporal rule induction1-153 | 22.3 (5.4) | 17.8 (4.9) | 15.7 |
↵1-150 Cut off values derived from the validation study7of the MDB, based on the analysis of performance of 340 normal subjects.
↵1-151 McNicol's accuracy scores (signal detection theory) range 50–100 (random performance errorless performance).
↵1-152 Visuoconstructive tasks.
↵1-153 Task exploring “sequencing“ and “set shifting“, most sensitive to frontal damage.