“Forget to Whom You Have Told This Proverb”: Directed Forgetting of Destination Memory in Alzheimer’s Disease

Table 1

Cognitive and clinical characteristics of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) patients and control participants.

	Task	AD; n = 26	Older adults; n = 30
General cognitive functioning	Mini-mental state examination (MMSE)	21.85 (1.46)^***	28.33 (1.24)
Episodic memory	Grober and Buschke	6.00 (2.36)^***	10.97 (3.09)
Inhibition	Stroop	61.08 (9.48)^***	35.95 (12.93)
Anxiety	HADS	8.42 (2.74)^***	6.53 (2.27)
Depression		10.62 (3.56)^***	6.65 (2.41)

Note. Standard deviations are between brackets; the maximum score on the MMSE was 30 points; the maximum score on the Grober and Buschke task was 16 points; scores on the Stroop task were reaction times; the cut-off score of the HADS (Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale) was >10/21 points; differences between groups were significant at ^***P < .001.