Skill learning in patients with moderate Alzheimer's disease: a prospective pilot-study of waltz-lessons

• Published in: International journal of geriatric psychiatry Vol. 17; no. 12; pp. 1155 - 1156
• Main Authors: Rösler, Alexander, Seifritz, Erich, Kräuchi, Kurt, Spoerl, David, Brokuslaus, Ilona, Proserpi, Sara-Maria, Gendre, Annekäthi, Savaskan, Egemen, Hofmann, Marc
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester, UK John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 01-12-2002; Wiley
• Subjects: Aged; Alzheimer Disease - rehabilitation; Alzheimer's disease; Analysis of Variance; Biological and medical sciences; Dance Therapy - methods; dance-therapy; Depressive Disorder - rehabilitation; Geriatrics; Humans; implicit memory; Learning; Medical sciences; Miscellaneous; Pilot Projects; procedural learning; Prospective Studies; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychopathology. Psychiatry; Treatments; Human; Mood disorder; Performance evaluation; Implicit memory; Therapy; Nervous system diseases; Alzheimer disease; Treatment efficiency; Depression; Patient; Cerebral disorder; Learning; Pilot study; Central nervous system disease; Dance; Degenerative disease; Therapeutic schedule; Procedural memory; Elderly; Psychiatry; Comparative study; Geriatrics
• ISSN: 0885-6230; 1099-1166
• DOI: 10.1002/gps.705

The authors report the effect of a 12‐day prospective, blinded dance‐learning trial in 5 patients with moderate Alzheimer's disease (AD) and 5 age‐matched depressed patients. Patients with AD showed a significant effect in procedural learning whereas depressed patients did not. These findings suggest potential implications for therapeutic interventions in patients with moderate AD. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.