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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Aug 21.
Published in final edited form as: Neurology. 2004 Feb 24;62(4):591–600. doi: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000110315.26026.ef

Table 4.

Percent of subjects declining by group for each MRI and cognitive measure

Normal MCI AD
Stable Converter Stable Converter Slow progressor Fast progressor

Hippocampus 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100%
Entorhinal Cortex 93 100 100 100 100 100
Whole Brain 95 87 93 100 90 100
Ventricle 98 93 100 100 94 100
MMSE 29 58 42 67 73 83
DRS 40 85 43 84 76 83
AVLT 39 92
LM II (%) 48 82 43 54
CDR 38 81 58 100

Tests are MMSE = Mini Mental State Exam; DRS = Dementia Rating Scale; AVLT = Auditory Verbal Learning Test – delayed recall; LM II (%) = percent retention on logical Memory subtest of the Wechsler Memory Scale –Revised; CDR = Clinical Dementia Rating – sum of boxes.