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P3‐144: The education adjusted cut‐off point of word span test to screening dementia in a South Brazilian sample
Author(s) -
Camozzato Ana Luiza,
Godinho Claudia,
Kochhann Renata,
Forster Letícia,
Gonçalves de Jesus Alyne,
Chaves Marcia Lorena
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
alzheimer's and dementia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.713
H-Index - 118
eISSN - 1552-5279
pISSN - 1552-5260
DOI - 10.1016/j.jalz.2010.05.1641
Subject(s) - dementia , medicine , cut point , linear regression , test (biology) , cut off , receiver operating characteristic , cognitive impairment , gerontology , cognition , statistics , psychiatry , mathematics , disease , paleontology , power (physics) , physics , quantum mechanics , biology
Considering several serious limitations of the MMSE like insensitivity to visuospatial deficits or frontal executive dysfunctions other cognitive assessment test tools were developed to overcome the limitations of MMSE. Methods: Active search for the patients with memory complaints General Practioners and Department of Neurology of Slovak Medical University Neuropsychological screening of investigated patients with neuropsychological tests for determinging global cognitive functions MMSE (Folstein et al., 1975) and ACE-R (Mioshi et al., 2006) Results: In the time period of 1.5 year over 400 patients with memory complaints were screened with neuropsychological screening tests MMSE and ACE-R. The patients with MMSE< 24 and ACE< 88 were further clinically examined by psychiatric, and neurological examination for differential diagnosis of dementia. Conclusions: The assessment of patients with memory complaints by neuropsychological screening tests MMSE and ACE-R to determine the cognitive mental state of the patients clearly demonstrated superior sensitivity of ACE-R over MMSE.