Cognitive Screening Instruments A Practical Approach /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Larner, A. J. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Θέματα: Medicine.; Neurology.; Neuropsychology.; Medicine & Public Health.

Cognitive Screening Instruments: A Practical Approach provides a practical and structured overview of some of the most commonly used and easily available cognitive screening instruments applicable in the outpatient clinic and bedside setting. Dementia and cognitive disorders are now recognised as an...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Introduction to cognitive screening instruments: rationale, desiderata, and assessment of utility
• The Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE): an update on its diagnostic validity for cognitive disorders
• MMSE variants and subscores
• Addenbrooke’s Cognitive Examination (ACE) and its Revision (ACE-R)
• Clock Drawing Test
• Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA): concept and clinical review
• DemTect
• The IQCODE: using informant reports  to assess cognitive change in the clinic and in older individuals living in the community
• TYM (Test Your Memory) Testing
• The General Practitioner Assessment of Cognition (GPCOG)
• 6-CIT: Six-item Cognitive Impairment Test
• Conclusion: place of cognitive screening instruments: test characteristics and suspected diagnosis.