Free & Cued Selective Reminding Test; Buschke selective reminding test (FCSRT, SRT)

Indications

• list-learning task developed to assess verbal memory
• evaluation of early Alzheimer's disease

Clinical significance

• tests immediate recall
• one of 5 strong predictors of developing Alzheimer's disease in patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI).

Procedure

• patient undergoes controlled learning of a card with 4 pictures
• each picture has a semantic cue (to ensure encoding)
• procedure is repeated with 3 other cards
• patient counts backwards by 3's for 20 seconds (as interference for working memory), then undergoes 3 recall trials
• in each trial, the patient recalls as many pictures as possible & then receives the semantic cues & tries to recall more pictures
• the scores are the number of correctly recalled words, without cues (free recall) & with & without cues (total recall)

More general terms

• memory assessment

Additional terms

• predictors of Alzheimer's disease