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Published in final edited form as: J Int Neuropsychol Soc. 2009 Jan;15(1):121–129. doi: 10.1017/S1355617708090176

Table 6.

Comparison of Sensitivity and Specificity between Individual Variables from the NAB and the AVLT, CERAD, CVLT, and HVLT.

Test	Variable	Sensitivity	Specificity
MCI vs. Control
CERAD	IR^a	.33 - .73	.80 - .93
	IR^b	.67	1.00
	DR^c	.83	.60
	DR^a	.26	1.00
	DR^b	.81	.86
	%Ret^c	.89	.55
	%Ret^a	.33	.66
	%Ret^b	.62	.90
	Recognition^a	.33 - .70	.93 – 1.00
	Recognition^c	.94	.35
HVLT	IR^d	.82	.79
NAB	List A IR^e	.76	.69
	List B IR^e	.69	.62
	List A SDR^e	.86	.72
	List A LDR^e	.62	.97

AD vs Control
CERAD	IR^f	.86	.87
	IR^a	.60 - .86	.80 - .93
	IR^g	.95	.89
	IR^b	.89	1.00
	DR^f	.74	.82
	DR^a	.86	1.00
	DR^g	.92	.89
	DR^b	1.00	.86
	%Ret^a	.80	.66
	%Ret^b	.79	.90
	Recognition^f	.76	.87
	Recognition^a	.60 - .80	.93 – 1.00
CVLT	IR^h	.95	.89
	LDR^h	.98	.88
HVLT	IRⁱ	.75	.92
AVLT	Trial 1^j	.63	.90
	Trial 5^j	.80	.43
	SDR^j	.79	.81
	LDR^j	.83	.83
NAB	List A IR^e	.85	.90
	List B IR^e	.85	.79
	List A SDR^e	.92	.97
	List A LDR^e	.92	.97

AD vs. MCI
HVLT	IR^d	.79	.96
	IR^k	.91	.69
NAB	List A IR^e	.58	.86
	List B IR^e	.65	.72
	List A SDR^e	.73	.83
	List A LDR^e	.89	.52

Note. MCI = Mild cognitive impairment; CERAD = Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer’s Disease; IR = Immediate Recall; DR = Delayed Recall; %Ret = Percent Retention; HVLT = Hopkins Verbal Learning Test; NAB = Neuropsychological Assessment Battery; SDR = Short Delay Recall; LDR = Long Delay Recall; AD = Alzheimer’s Disease; CVLT = California Verbal Learning Test; AVLT = Auditory Verbal Learning Test.

Karrasch et al. (2005).

Ivanoiu et al. (2005).

Woodard et al. (2005).

Schrijnemaekers et al. (2006).

Current study (see Table 2).

Bertolucci et al. (2001).

Derrer et al. (2001).

Salmon et al. (2002).

ⁱ

Kuslansky et al. (2004).

Schoenberg et al. (2006).

de Jager et al. (2003).