Start available symptomatic medications at earliest possible stage to reduce burden of symptoms Identify patients who would best benefit from disease modifying medications as they become available Patients can participate…
ACE ACE-R ACE-III M-ACE MMSE Orientation: time 5 5 5 4 5 Orientation: place 5 5 5 5 Registration 3 3 3 3 Attention/concentration (serial 7 s, DLROW) 5…
Question 1 – What year is it? (Orientation) The exact year must be given, however an incomplete numerical value for the year (e.g. 11 instead of 2011) is accepted as…
Test (abbreviation) Reference(s) Abbreviated Mental Test Score (AMTS) Hodkinson (1972) [1] AB Cognitive Screen 135 (ABCS135) Molloy et al. (2005) [2], Standish et al. (2007) [3] Animal fluency test Sebaldt…
Compared with 10 years ago how is this person at: 1 2 3 4 5 1. Remembering things about family and friends e.g. occupations, birthdays, addresses Much improved A bit…
Reference N % dementia Sensitivity Specificity PPV NPV MC AUC Two-stage English [2, 13]a, b 246 29 0.85 0.86 0.71 0.93 14.2 % 0.89 Chinese [5]a, b 456 22 0.97…
Purpose of test Sensitivity Specificity PPV NPV Overall correct LR+ LR− CUI+ CUI− Dementia Detection of dementia vs HC 81.3 % (80.6–82.1 %) 89.1 % (88.7–89.5 %) 74.8 % (74.0–75.6…
The subscore therefore ranged from −5 to +10. In a series of patients with pathologically confirmed AD (n = 27) or DLB (n = 17), a subscore of <5 was…
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017A. J. Larner (ed.)Cognitive Screening Instruments10.1007/978-3-319-44775-9_1 1. Introduction to Cognitive Screening Instruments: Rationale and Desiderata Andrew J. Larner1 (1) Cognitive Function Clinic, Walton Centre for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Liverpool, UK …
Fig. 7.1 The difference between hyperbolic (solid line) and exponential (dashed line) discounting Many types of functions have been described, for example D(t) = 1/t, D(t) = 1/(1 + kt), etc., (Frederick 2003, 69, Rachlin et al….
