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examination

847 studies tagged examination, dated 1982-05-01 to 2026-09-16. Bibliography: BibTeX (.bib) · RIS (.ris)

Newest in this topic

  1. Feasibility of remote self-administered cognitive assessment in an Alzheimer's disease treatment clinic 2026-09-16
  2. Structural brain imaging for newly diagnosed cognitive impairment by Medicare coverage type 2026-09-15
  3. Detection and Continuous Monitoring of Memory Dysfunction in Mild Cognitive Impairment and Healthy Aging Through Adaptive Computational Phenotyping 2026-09-12

Studies

847 studies carry this tag.

Date range

1982 to 2026

Top journals

  • Neurology 63
  • Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 31
  • Archives of neurology 30
  • Alzheimer s & Dementia 25
  • Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 21

315 journals in all.

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  1. Effectiveness of a cognitive rehabilitation program in mild dementia (MD) and mild cognitive impairment (MCI): a case control study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Archives of gerontology and geriatrics 2007-01-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    Data support the evidence that neuropsychological rehabilitation is effective in Alzheimer disease (AD), to strengthen the pharmacological treatment to delay the progression of dementia.

  2. Qualitative estimates of medial temporal atrophy as a predictor of progression from mild cognitive impairment to dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2007-01-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    Adjusted estimates of MTA were associated with significantly increased risk of developing dementia within 3 years, suggesting that obtaining a magnetic resonance image during the evaluation of MCI may offer additional independent information about the risk of progression to dementia.

  3. The cognitive correlates of functional status: a review from the Committee on Research of the American Neuropsychiatric Association

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. The Journal of neuropsychiatry and clinical neurosciences 2007-01-01 Getting a diagnosis

    This report reviews the state of the literature and opportunities for research related to the cognitive correlates of functional status.

  4. A review of screening tests for cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2006-12-18 Getting a diagnosis

    The merit of screening for dementia and cognitive impairment has been the subject of recent debate.

  5. Mild cognitive impairment: long-term course of four clinical subtypes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. Neurology 2006-12-01 Getting a diagnosis

    It has been assumed that each MCI subtype is associated with an increased risk for a particular type of dementia.

  6. Motor dysfunction in mild cognitive impairment and the risk of incident Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2006-12-01 Vascular contributions

    Persons with MCI also have impaired motor function, and the degree of impairment in lower extremity function is related to the risk of AD.

  7. Comparison of the Saint Louis University mental status examination and the mini-mental state examination for detecting dementia and mild neurocognitive disorder--a pilot study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry 2006-11-01 Getting a diagnosis

    These results suggest that the SLUMS and MMSE have comparable sensitivities, specificities, and area under the curve in detecting dementia.

  8. Progression of mild cognitive impairment to dementia: a challenge to current thinking

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science 2006-11-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    Further long-term studies are needed to examine the time-dependent evolution from mild cognitive impairment to dementia and to establish age-specific conversion rates during lifetime.

  9. The NUCOG: validity and reliability of a brief cognitive screening tool in neuropsychiatric patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. The Australian and New Zealand journal of psychiatry 2006-11-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The NUCOG was undertaken with the MMSE on a total of 347 individuals, with 82 subjects in the control group and 265 in the patient group.

  10. Subjective memory complaints and cognitive impairment in older people

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders 2006-10-16 Getting a diagnosis

    Subjective memory complaints (SMCs) are common in older people and are often thought to indicate cognitive impairment.

  11. Prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus-associated cognitive impairment in a group of Hispanic women at risk for neurological impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of neurovirology 2006-10-01 Disparities

    Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-associated cognitive impairment, a significant cause of morbidity, affects up to 30% of HIV-infected people.

  12. Spatial patterns of cortical thinning in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2006-09-28 Mild cognitive impairment

    Cortical thickness is a more reliable measure of atrophy than volume due to the low variability in the cytoarchitectural structure of the grey matter.

  13. Increased fMRI responses during encoding in mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2006-09-25 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was performed on 21 healthy elderly controls, 14 subjects with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and 15 patients with mild Alzheimer's disease (AD) to investigate changes in fMRI activation in relation to underlying structural atrophy.

  14. Subtypes of mild cognitive impairment in Parkinson's disease: progression to dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 2006-09-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    The aim of this study was to establish the rate of progression from mild cognitive impairment (MCI) to dementia in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD).

  15. Subtype of mild cognitive impairment and progression to dementia and death

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders 2006-08-28 Mild cognitive impairment

    The majority of patients with MCI progressed to dementia and a significant proportion died.

  16. The contribution of voxel-based morphometry in staging patients with mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Neurology 2006-08-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Different patterns of gray matter density distribution in patients with mild cognitive impairment may be associated to different rates of conversion to Alzheimer disease.

  17. Longitudinal 1H MRS changes in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2006-07-24 Mild cognitive impairment

    Magnetic resonance (MR)-based volume measurements of atrophy are potential markers of disease progression in patients with amnestic mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  18. Conversion to dementia from mild cognitive disorder: the Cache County Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Neurology 2006-07-01 Genetics

    Individuals with all types of mild cognitive impairment have an elevated risk of dementia over 3 years, more so in those with an APOE epsilon4 allele.

  19. Mild cognitive impairment: an opportunity to identify patients at high risk for progression to Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Clinical therapeutics 2006-07-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    MCI involves more substantial cognitive and memory decline than normal aging and represents a significant risk factor for the development of dementia.

  20. Progression to dementia in clinical subtypes of mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders 2006-05-04 Mild cognitive impairment

    When the clinical syndrome of MCI evolves on a neurodegenerative basis, the multiple-domain type of MCI has a less favorable prognosis than the amnestic type and may represent a more advanced prodromal stage of dementia.

  21. Neuropathologic features of amnestic mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2006-05-01 Brain tissue and pathology

    The neuropathologic substrate of amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI) is not known.

  22. Neuropathologic outcome of mild cognitive impairment following progression to clinical dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2006-05-01 Getting a diagnosis

    The neuropathologic outcome of amnestic MCI following progression to dementia is heterogeneous, and it includes AD at a high frequency.

  23. Improving identification of cognitive impairment in primary care

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. International journal of geriatric psychiatry 2006-04-01 Disparities

    A heterogeneous community sample (n=371) of predominantly ethnic minority elderly assessed by standardized research protocol, 231 of whom met criteria for dementia or mild cognitive impairment (MCI).

  24. Mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Lancet (London, England) 2006-04-01 Prevention and risk

    Mild cognitive impairment is a syndrome defined as cognitive decline greater than expected for an individual's age and education level but that does not interfere notably with activities of daily life.

  25. Predictors of conversion to dementia of probable Alzheimer type in patients with mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 37 out of 100. Current Alzheimer research 2006-04-01 Genetics

    There is a substantial body of literature dealing with predictors of dementia in patients with MCI.

  26. Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) in medical practice: a critical review of the concept and new diagnostic procedure. Report of the MCI Working Group of the European Consortium on Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2006-03-20 Mild cognitive impairment

    Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) was proposed as a nosological entity referring to elderly people with mild cognitive deficit but no dementia.

  27. Functional connectivity of the fusiform gyrus during a face-matching task in subjects with mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2006-03-06 Mild cognitive impairment

    The results demonstrate that functional connectivity can be an effective marker for the detection of changes in brain function in MCI subjects.

  28. Complex activities of daily living in mild cognitive impairment: conceptual and diagnostic issues

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Age and ageing 2006-03-02 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The impact of cognitive impairment on activities of daily living (ADL) is being used as a major criterion for differentiating between mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and dementia.

  29. Impairment of activities of daily living requiring memory or complex reasoning as part of the MCI syndrome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. International journal of geriatric psychiatry 2006-02-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) is a borderline state between age-associated cognitive decline and mild dementia.

  30. Mapping scores onto stages: mini-mental state examination and clinical dementia rating

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry 2006-02-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Although the clinical course of Alzheimer disease (AD) is gradual, it is useful for a number of reasons to distinguish between different levels of severity.

  31. Non-degenerative mild cognitive impairment in elderly people and use of anticholinergic drugs: longitudinal cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. BMJ (Clinical research ed.) 2006-02-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Elderly people taking anticholinergic drugs had significant deficits in cognitive functioning and were highly likely to be classified as mildly cognitively impaired, although not at increased risk for dementia.

  32. Perspectives on depression, mild cognitive impairment, and cognitive decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Archives of general psychiatry 2006-02-01 Brain tissue and pathology

    Cognitive impairment and late-life depression are associated with increased risk for subsequent dementia; however, investigations of these phenomena appear to be proceeding along separate tracks.

  33. Neuropathologic substrate of mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2006-01-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    Patients with MCI showed no significant difference (P>.05) in the number of diffuse plaques from that in normal controls or patients with EAD.

  34. Heterogeneity of brain glucose metabolism in mild cognitive impairment and clinical progression to Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2005-11-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    These data provide evidence for clinical and functional heterogeneity among subjects with aMCI and suggest that 18FDG-PET findings combined with memory scores may be useful in predicting short-term conversion to AD.

  35. Implementing diagnostic criteria and estimating frequency of mild cognitive impairment in an urban community

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2005-11-01 Genetics

    When proper normative values are used, only age and education, and not race or ethnicity, are associated with higher frequency of MCI.

  36. Mild cognitive impairment and 10-year trajectories of disability in the Iowa Established Populations for Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2005-11-01 Disparities

    MCI was prevalent in 24.7% of participants at baseline.

  37. The Goteborg MCI study: mild cognitive impairment is a heterogeneous condition

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2005-11-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) has been considered a transitional state between normal aging and dementia, characterised by memory impairment but normal general cognitive functioning.

  38. Brain atrophy rates predict subsequent clinical conversion in normal elderly and amnestic MCI

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Neurology 2005-10-01 Brain scans and imaging

    During follow-up, 13 healthy patients converted to MCI or Alzheimer disease (AD), whereas 39 MCI subjects converted to AD.

  39. Degree of discrepancy between self and other-reported everyday functioning by cognitive status: dementia, mild cognitive impairment, and healthy elders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. International journal of geriatric psychiatry 2005-09-01 Disparities

    Although there may be some mild functional changes associated particularly with the MCI-memory impaired subtype, individuals with MCI do not appear to under-report their functional status as can often been seen in persons with dementia.

  40. Subjective memory complaints in Chinese subjects with mild cognitive impairment and early Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. International journal of geriatric psychiatry 2005-09-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) represents a transitional state between normal aging and dementia.

  41. Longitudinal CSF and MRI biomarkers improve the diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2005-08-26 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    The diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) in patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is limited because it is based on non-specific behavioral and neuroimaging findings.

  42. Current epidemiology of mild cognitive impairment and other predementia syndromes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry 2005-08-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    A variety of clinically-defined predementia syndromes, with differing diagnostic criteria and nomenclature, have been proposed to describe nondisabling symptomatic cognitive deficits arising in elderly persons.

  43. Mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry 2005-08-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) describes a state of cognitive functioning that is below defined norms, yet falls short of dementia in severity.

  44. Prevalence and patterns of cognitive impairment in sporadic ALS

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Neurology 2005-08-01 How common it is

    These data confirm the presence of cognitive impairment in 50% of patients with ALS and particularly implicate executive dysfunction and mild memory decline in the disease process.

  45. A total score for the CERAD neuropsychological battery

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Neurology 2005-07-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    CERAD total scores were obtained by summing scores from the individual CERAD subtests (excluding the Mini-Mental State Examination [MMSE]) into a total composite (maximum score = 100).

  46. Restrictions of the Mini-Mental State Examination in acute stroke

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Archives of clinical neuropsychology : the official journal of the National Academy of Neuropsychologists 2005-07-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    While the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) was originally developed to screen for dementia and delirium, many neurologists use this measure as a screening instrument for 'cognitive impairment' in hospitalized stroke patients.

  47. A randomized, double-blind, study of rofecoxib in patients with mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology 2005-06-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Inflammatory mechanisms have been implicated in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and might be mediated via the COX-2 enzyme.

  48. Oxidative DNA damage in peripheral leukocytes of mild cognitive impairment and AD patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2005-05-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    It is well established that oxidative stress plays a key role in the degenerative neuronal death and progression of Alzheimer's disease (AD), although it is not clear if it is the primary triggering event in the pathogenesis of this disorder.

  49. Prevalence of cognitive impairment: results from the MRC trial of assessment and management of older people in the community

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Age and ageing 2005-05-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) is recommended to test for cognitive impairment and to monitor medication response.

  50. Simplifying detection of cognitive impairment: comparison of the Mini-Cog and Mini-Mental State Examination in a multiethnic sample

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2005-05-01 Disparities

    A registry of the University of Washington Alzheimer's Disease Research Center Satellite.

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