"Neuropsychological assessment of memory in the elderly": Erratum.

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Abstract
When a community-dwelling older person is referred for a neuropsychological assessment, it is most often because of memory problems. Such problems can be benign, but they may also be pathological, caused by some physical or psychological disturbance of brain function. Pathological memory loss is most often symptomatic of a progressive, and currently untreatable, organic deterioration of the brain, Alzheimer''s Disease (AD). Memory loss, however, is also a common symptom in other, potentially treatable, disorders. The present study describes three new tests of memory designed specifically for use with older people that have been normed on a sample of 734 people, all 50 years of age or older. Both the experimental and clinical implications of the test results are discussed.