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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. The mini-cog: a cognitive 'vital signs' measure for dementia screening in multi-lingual elderly

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. International journal of geriatric psychiatry 2000-11-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The Mini-Cog, a composite of three-item recall and clock drawing, was developed as a brief test for discriminating demented from non-demented persons in a community sample of culturally, linguistically, and educationally heterogeneous older adults.

  2. The cognitive correlates of white matter abnormalities in normal aging: a quantitative review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Neuropsychology 2000-04-01 Caregiving

    Cerebral white matter of asymptomatic people frequently exhibits circumscribed areas of hyperintensity on magnetic resonance (MR) images and hypodensity on computed tomography scans.

  3. Subjective memory complaint in relation to cognitive performance and depression: a longitudinal study of a rural Chinese population

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2000-03-01 Disparities

    SMC was associated with poorer objective memory performance even after controlling the effect of depression and demographic data, but SMC did not predict faster cognitive decline or dementia over 3 years.

  4. [The Mini-Mental State Examination as a selected diagnostic test for dementia: a Colombian population study. GENECO]

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Revista de neurologia 2000-03-01 Disparities

    Twelve cases of dementia were diagnosed among individuals with scores below cutoff point and one among subjects with high scores.

  5. Validation of the NPI-Q, a brief clinical form of the Neuropsychiatric Inventory

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. The Journal of neuropsychiatry and clinical neurosciences 2000-01-01 Caregiving

    The Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI) is a validated clinical instrument for evaluating psychopathology in dementia.

  6. Decreased awareness of cognitive deficits in patients with mild dementia of the Alzheimer type

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. International journal of geriatric psychiatry 1999-12-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    We surveyed the medical records of outpatients meeting the NINCDS-ADRDA criteria for probable DAT who were able to complete the Cognitive Difficulties Scale (CDS) and had a close informant relative (IR) who could complete the family form of the same questionnaire.

  7. Validation of a 6 item cognitive impairment test with a view to primary care usage

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. International journal of geriatric psychiatry 1999-11-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Two hundred and eighty-seven patients were tested: 135 controls (GDS 1-2), 70 with mild dementia (GDS 3-5) and 82 with more severe dementia (GDS 6-7).

  8. Norms for the Mini-Mental State Examination in a healthy population

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Neurology 1999-07-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Although the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) is widely used in clinical practice, few norms exist for healthy populations covering a broad range of ages.

  9. Medial temporal lobe atrophy and memory dysfunction as predictors for dementia in subjects with mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Journal of neurology 1999-06-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    To determine whether the medial temporal lobe is atrophic in subjects with mild cognitive impairment, and whether atrophy of this structure is a better predictor of dementia than memory dysfunction.

  10. [Revalidation and standardization of the cognition mini-exam (first Spanish version of the Mini-Mental Status Examination) in the general geriatric population]

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Medicina clinica 1999-06-01 Getting a diagnosis

    The validity of MEC is confirmed in the elderly population, with the same cut-off points recommended in the original standardization.

  11. Mild cognitive impairment: clinical characterization and outcome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Archives of neurology 1999-03-01 How common it is

    Patients who meet the criteria for MCI can be differentiated from healthy control subjects and those with very mild AD.

  12. [Mini mental state examination and the diagnosis of dementia in Brazil]

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria 1998-09-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The diagnosis of dementia is based on the presence of memory deficits and decline of other cognitive functions.

  13. The Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status (RBANS): preliminary clinical validity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Journal of clinical and experimental neuropsychology 1998-06-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Neuropsychological assessment of older individuals with dementing illnesses has suffered from a lack of appropriately designed test instruments.

  14. Community screening for dementia: the Mini Mental State Exam (MMSE) and Modified Mini-Mental State Exam (3MS) compared

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Journal of clinical epidemiology 1997-04-01 Caregiving

    The objectives of this study were to assess whether Teng's modification of the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) improves its performance as a screening test for cognitive impairment and dementia, and to replicate this comparison in French and English language groups, and for differing assumptions concerning the relative importance of false negative and false positive errors.

  15. A 5-year longitudinal study of the Mini-Mental State Examination in normal aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. American journal of epidemiology 1997-03-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) measures global cognitive performance and is often used as a screening test for dementia.

  16. [Japanese version of the Neuropsychiatric Inventory--a scoring system for neuropsychiatric disturbance in dementia patients].

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. No to shinkei = Brain and nerve 1997-03-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The MMSE scores ranged from 5 to 29 (mean +/- SD = 19.0 +/- 4.8) and the ADAS scores ranged from 7 to 63 (24.3 +/- 10.9).

  17. Aging, memory, and mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. International psychogeriatrics 1997-01-01 Getting a diagnosis

    In recent years, patients who are at high risk for developing Alzheimer's disease (AD) have become a focus of study.

  18. Limitations of the Mini-Mental State Examination in diagnosing dementia in general practice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. International journal of geriatric psychiatry 1997-01-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The aim of the study was to investigate the value of the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) for use by general practitioners (GPs) in a group of elderly patients in whom the GPs are considering a dementia diagnosis.

  19. The Mini-Mental State Examination in general medical practice: clinical utility and acceptance

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Mayo Clinic proceedings 1996-09-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The efficacy of the MMSE for screening was measured in a subsample of age- and sex-matched patients with dementia (N = 185) and control subjects (N = 227).

  20. Age and education correction of Mini-Mental State Examination for English and Spanish-speaking elderly

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Neurology 1996-03-01 Disparities

    Previous research has shown that the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMS) is biased as a measure of cognitive impairment in minority and low-education patients.

  21. The Mental Deterioration Battery: normative data, diagnostic reliability and qualitative analyses of cognitive impairment. The Group for the Standardization of the Mental Deterioration Battery

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. European neurology 1996-01-01 Getting a diagnosis

    This study aimed at investigating the clinical usefulness of the Mental Deterioration Battery (MDB) in the neuropsychological diagnosis and characterization of the dementia syndrome.

  22. Item bias in cognitive screening measures: comparisons of elderly white, Afro-American, Hispanic and high and low education subgroups

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of clinical epidemiology 1995-04-01 Disparities

    A study of item bias in standard cognitive screening measures was conducted in a sample of Afro-American, Hispanic and non-Hispanic white elderly respondents who were part of a dementia case registry study.

  23. Documentation and evaluation of cognitive impairment in elderly primary care patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Annals of internal medicine 1995-03-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Cognitive impairment is associated with increased use of health services and increased mortality.

  24. The Informant Questionnaire on Cognitive Decline in the Elderly (IQCODE) as a screening tool for dementia for a predominantly illiterate Chinese population

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Neurology 1995-01-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The Informant Questionnaire on Cognitive Decline in the Elderly (IQCODE) provides ratings of an individual's changes in everyday cognitive functions during the previous 10 years.

  25. Correlates of Mini-Mental Status Examination scores among elderly demented patients: the influence of race-ethnicity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Journal of clinical epidemiology 1994-12-01 Disparities

    Data on 1888 patients seen at Alzheimer's Disease Diagnostic and Treatment Centers in California were used to examine possible differences in Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) results for different racial-ethnic groups.

  26. The MDS Cognition Scale: a valid instrument for identifying and staging nursing home residents with dementia using the minimum data set

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 1994-11-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    We report the development and validation of an MDS-based cognitive index, the MDS Cognition Scale (MDS-COGS), by evaluating it against two popular dementia rating scales, the Global Deterioration Scale (GDS) and the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE).

  27. Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery (CANTAB): a factor analytic study of a large sample of normal elderly volunteers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Dementia (Basel, Switzerland) 1994-09-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The CANTAB battery was administered to a large group (n = 787) of elderly volunteers in the age range from 55 to 80 years.

  28. The Mini-Mental State Examination score and the clinical diagnosis of dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Journal of clinical epidemiology 1994-09-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    To set a working cutoff score for the referral to diagnostic examination, we evaluated 150 consecutive patients with complaints potentially related to dementia, using the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE).

  29. The Cognitive Abilities Screening Instrument (CASI): A Practical Test for Cross-Cultural Epidemiological Studies of Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. International Psychogeriatrics 1994-03-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The Cognitive Abilities Screening Instrument (CASI) has a score range of 0 to 100 and provides quantitative assessment on attention, concentration, orientation, short-term memory, long-term memory, language abilities, visual construction, list-generating fluency, abstraction, and judgment.

  30. A short form of the Informant Questionnaire on Cognitive Decline in the Elderly (IQCODE): development and cross-validation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Psychological medicine 1994-02-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Data from four studies were used to assess the psychometric properties of the 26 IQCODE items.

  31. Severe impairment battery. A neuropsychological test for severely demented patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Archives of neurology 1994-01-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Patients with progressive dementia invariably evolve to a stage where they can no longer be tested by standard neuropsychological tests.

  32. Population-Based Norms for the Mini-Mental State Examination by Age and Educational Level

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. JAMA 1993-05-12 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Cognitive performance as measured by the MMSE varies within the population by age and education.

  33. Accuracy of the Mini-Mental Status Examination as a screening test for dementia in a Swedish elderly population

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Acta neurologica Scandinavica 1993-04-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The aim of this study was to determine the accuracy of the Mini-Mental Status Examination (MMSE) as a screening test for dementia in an elderly Swedish population.

  34. The mini-mental state examination: a comprehensive review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 1992-09-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The purpose of this paper is to provide a comprehensive review of information accumulated over the past 26 years regarding the psychometric properties and utility of the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE).

  35. A new systematic method of measurement and diagnosis of "mild cognitive impairment" and dementia according to ICD-10 and DSM-III-R criteria

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. International psychogeriatrics 1992-01-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Normative data were collected in a study population of 150 randomly selected elderly subjects.

  36. Effect of education on the mini-mental state examination as a screening test for dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 1991-09-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    We studied whether Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) norms for detecting dementia in elderly outpatients vary according to educational attainment.

  37. Performance of the Informant Questionnaire on Cognitive Decline in the Elderly (IQCODE) as a screening test for dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Psychological medicine 1991-08-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    A 26-item informant questionnaire (IQCODE) and the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) were compared as screening tests for dementia in a sample of 69 patients.

  38. Mild cognitive impairment in the elderly: predictors of dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Neurology 1991-07-01 Getting a diagnosis

    We conducted full diagnostic evaluations, including a comprehensive cognitive assessment battery, of a group of 32 elderly subjects with a clinically identified mild cognitive impairment and a group of 32 age-matched and education-matched normal subjects.

  39. Mini-Mental State exam scores vary with education in blacks and whites

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 1991-02-01 Disparities

    Previous studies have suggested that education and race may affect performance on standardized mental status tests.

  40. Screening for cognitive impairment in multiple sclerosis. An evaluation of the Mini-Mental State Examination

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Archives of neurology 1990-03-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The usefulness of the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) as a screening test for identifying cognitive impairment in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) has been questioned because many patients who score above the suggested cutoff score of 24 exhibit severe focal or global cognitive deficits.

  41. The association of education and socioeconomic status with the Mini Mental State Examination and the clinical diagnosis of dementia in elderly people

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Age and ageing 1990-03-01 Disparities

    The distribution of scores in the Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) of women aged 70-79 years from a rural area of Cambridgeshire is reported.

  42. The Modified Mini-Mental State (3MS) examination.

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. The Journal of clinical psychiatry 1987-08-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The Mini-Mental State (MMS) examination is a widely used screening test for dementia.

  43. Short Portable Mental Status Questionnaire as a screening test for dementia and delirium among the elderly

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 1987-05-01 Clinical safety

    Pfeiffer's Short Portable Mental Status Questionnaire (SPMSQ) is a brief screening test for organic brain syndromes.

  44. Bedside cognitive screening instruments. A critical assessment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of nervous and mental disease 1986-02-01 Clinical safety

    Bedside cognitive screening instruments are used increasingly in clinical and research settings to detect cognitive impairment and to quantify its severity.

  45. The meaning of cognitive impairment in the elderly

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 1985-04-01 How common it is

    In order to determine the meaning of cognitive impairment in community dwelling elderly, 3,481 adults were interviewed in their homes using the Mini-Mental State Examination.

  46. Transient cognitive disorders (delirium, acute confusional states) in the elderly

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. The American journal of psychiatry 1983-11-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Transient cognitive disorders (delirium and pseudodelirium) are highly prevalent among the elderly, especially those with brain damage.

  47. Limits of the 'Mini-Mental State' as a screening test for dementia and delirium among hospital patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Psychological medicine 1982-05-01 Getting a diagnosis

    With a psychiatrist's standardized clinical diagnosis as the criterion, the 'Mini-Mental State' Examination (MMSE) was 87% sensitive and 82% specific in detecting dementia and delirium among hospital patients on a general medical ward.

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