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mini-mental

847 studies tagged mini-mental, 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. Evidence of increased oxidative damage in subjects with mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Neurology 2005-04-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    Oxidative damage occurs in the brain of subjects with mild cognitive impairment, suggesting that oxidative damage may be one of the earliest events in the onset and progression of Alzheimer disease.

  2. The Montreal Cognitive Assessment, MoCA: a brief screening tool for mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2005-04-01 Getting a diagnosis

    MCI as an entity is evolving and somewhat controversial.

  3. Combined 99mTc-ECD SPECT and neuropsychological studies in MCI for the assessment of conversion to AD

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2005-03-24 Mild cognitive impairment

    Identifying pre-clinical Alzheimer's disease (AD) in subjects with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is a major issue in clinical diagnosis.

  4. Diagnostic accuracy of mini-mental status examination and revised hasegawa dementia scale for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders 2005-03-22 Cognitive tests and assessment

    To compare the diagnostic accuracies of the Revised Hasegawa Dementia Scale (HDS-R) and Mini-Mental Status Examination (MMSE) for Alzheimer's diseases (AD), we administered them simultaneously to 82 AD patients and 82 age- and sex-matched nondemented control subjects.

  5. Cognitive and functional neuroimaging correlate for anosognosia in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. International journal of geriatric psychiatry 2005-03-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    From a prospective Memory Clinic cohort including consecutively referred patients, age 60 years or above, and with MMSE score 20 or above, 36 patients with AD and 30 with MCI were included in this study.

  6. DWI predicts future progression to Alzheimer disease in amnestic mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Neurology 2005-03-01 Brain scans and imaging

    The authors assessed whether measures of hippocampal water diffusivity at baseline can predict future progression to Alzheimer disease (AD) in amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI).

  7. Mild cognitive impairment is related to Alzheimer disease pathology and cerebral infarctions

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Neurology 2005-03-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Nearly all persons had at least some AD pathology.

  8. Challenging the cholinergic system in mild cognitive impairment: a pharmacological fMRI study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 65 out of 100. NeuroImage 2004-12-01 Treatments

    Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) often represents an early form of Alzheimer disease (AD).

  9. Prevalence and pattern of neuropsychological impairment in human immunodeficiency virus-infected/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) patients across pre- and post-highly active antiretroviral therapy eras: a combined study of two cohorts

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Journal of neurovirology 2004-12-01 Getting a diagnosis

    The objective of this study was to assess the prevalence and pattern of neuropsychological impairment in cohorts of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected individuals across pre- and post-HAART (highly active antiretroviral therapy) eras.

  10. Impact of APOE in mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Neurology 2004-11-01 Genetics

    Approximately 40% of the subjects were APOE epsilon4 carriers.

  11. Detection and management of cognitive impairment in primary care: The Steel Valley Seniors Survey

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2004-10-01 Disparities

    Physicians noted impairment in a minority of impaired patients.

  12. Mild cognitive impairment as a diagnostic entity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Journal of internal medicine 2004-09-01 Getting a diagnosis

    The concept of cognitive impairment intervening between normal ageing and very early dementia has been in the literature for many years.

  13. Mild cognitive impairment – beyond controversies, towards a consensus: report of the International Working Group on Mild Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Journal of Internal Medicine 2004-08-20 Mild cognitive impairment

    The First Key Symposium was held in Stockholm, Sweden, 2-5 September 2003.

  14. Medial temporal lobe atrophy on MRI predicts dementia in patients with mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Neurology 2004-07-01 Risk factors

    The mean follow-up period for the cohort was 34 months.

  15. Memory impairment, but not cerebrovascular disease, predicts progression of MCI to dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Neurology 2004-07-01 Genetics

    Within a heterogenous group of MCI patients, including many with clinically significant CVD, baseline memory and executive performance significantly predicted likelihood to develop dementia.

  16. Mild cognitive impairment, amnestic type: an epidemiologic study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Neurology 2004-07-01 How common it is

    In this community-based sample, 3 to 4% of nondemented persons met MCI operational criteria; despite increased risk of progressing to dementia, a substantial proportion also remained stable or reverted to normal during follow-up.

  17. Physician recognition of cognitive impairment: evaluating the need for improvement

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2004-07-01 Vascular contributions

    Medical record documentation reflects physician recognition of dementia, yet physicians are aware of, but have not documented, many patients with milder cognitive impairment.

  18. Screening for cognitive impairment among older people in black and minority ethnic groups

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. Age and ageing 2004-06-24 Disparities

    There is a well-documented tendency for cognitive tests to underestimate the abilities of older people in black and minority ethnic groups.

  19. Cholinergic enhancement of frontal lobe activity in mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2004-05-12 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Cholinesterase inhibitors positively affect cognition in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and other conditions, but no controlled functional MRI studies have examined where their effects occur in the brain.

  20. Ultrastructural hippocampal and white matter alterations in mild cognitive impairment: a diffusion tensor imaging study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders 2004-04-14 Mild cognitive impairment

    Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is considered to be a transitional stage between normal aging and dementia.

  21. [Validation of a screening test for age associated cognitive impairment, in Chile]

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Revista medica de Chile 2004-04-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The real prevalence of dementia in a given population must be determined through prevalence studies, using validated screening tests.

  22. DemTect: a new, sensitive cognitive screening test to support the diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment and early dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. International journal of geriatric psychiatry 2004-02-01 Getting a diagnosis

    The DemTect is short (8-10 minutes), easy to administer, and its transformed total score (maximum 18) is independent of age and education.

  23. Awareness of deficits in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease: do MCI patients have impaired insight?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders 2004-01-20 Cognitive tests and assessment

    In this study we investigated impaired awareness of cognitive deficits in patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  24. Mild cognitive impairment can be distinguished from Alzheimer disease and normal aging for clinical trials

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2004-01-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Patients with MCI had a predominant memory impairment with relative sparing of other cognitive domains and were intermediate between clinically normal individuals and patients with AD on cognitive and functional ratings.

  25. Comparison of the short test of mental status and the mini-mental state examination in mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2003-12-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) is the most widely used brief screening measure of cognition, but it is not sensitive in detecting mild memory or other cognitive impairments.

  26. Prevalence and classification of mild cognitive impairment in the Cardiovascular Health Study Cognition Study: part 1

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2003-10-01 How common it is

    Twenty-two percent of the participants aged 75 years or older had MCI.

  27. Risk factors for mild cognitive impairment in the Cardiovascular Health Study Cognition Study: part 2

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2003-10-01 How common it is

    The development of MCI is associated with measurements of cognition and depression, racial and constitutional factors, and cerebrovascular disease.

  28. The Mini-Cog as a screen for dementia: validation in a population-based sample

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2003-10-01 Getting a diagnosis

    When applied post hoc to an existing population, the Mini-Cog was as effective in detecting dementia as longer screening and assessment instruments.

  29. Mild cognitive impairment: directions for future research

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Neurology 2003-08-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    Mild cognitive impairment (MCI), an intermediate state between normal aging and dementia, is characterized by acquired cognitive deficits, without significant decline in functional activities of daily living.

  30. Homogeneity and heterogeneity in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease: a cross-sectional and longitudinal study of 55 cases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2003-07-22 Mild cognitive impairment

    This study investigated cross-sectional and longitudinal neuropsychological data from 55 patients: 38 with Alzheimer's disease and 18 with mild cognitive impairment (MCI).

  31. Mild cognitive impairment: prevalence, prognosis, aetiology, and treatment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. The Lancet. Neurology 2003-01-01 How common it is

    Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is a recently described syndrome that is currently thought of as a transition phase between healthy cognitive ageing and dementia.

  32. Mild cognitive impairment in older people

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Lancet (London, England) 2002-12-01 Prevention and risk

    As public awareness of Alzheimer's disease increases, more people are asking for help and advice about memory problems.

  33. Incidence and outcome of mild cognitive impairment in a population-based prospective cohort

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Neurology 2002-11-01 How common it is

    Conventionally defined MCI has reasonable predictive value and specificity for AD.

  34. Mild cognitive impairment with subcortical vascular features: clinical characteristics and outcome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 42 out of 100. Journal of neurology 2002-10-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Patients were enrolled in a prospective study on early cognitive impairment carried out in a Memory Clinic.

  35. Rates of progression in mild cognitive impairment and early Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Neurology 2002-10-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    The lack of effective predictors of the rate of dementia progression extends to the very earliest stages of the disease, including what is often called MCI.

  36. Prevalence of neuropsychiatric symptoms in dementia and mild cognitive impairment: results from the cardiovascular health study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 78 out of 100. JAMA 2002-09-01 How common it is

    Dementia and MCI are associated with neuropsychiatric symptoms in clinical samples.

  37. Six-item screener to identify cognitive impairment among potential subjects for clinical research

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 56 out of 100. Medical care 2002-09-01 Getting a diagnosis

    The six-item screener is a brief and reliable instrument for identifying subjects with cognitive impairment and its diagnostic properties are comparable to the full MMSE.

  38. Natural history of mild cognitive impairment in older persons

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 62 out of 100. Neurology 2002-07-23 Mild cognitive impairment

    On average, persons with mild cognitive impairment had significantly lower scores at baseline in all cognitive domains.

  39. HIV-associated cognitive impairment before and after the advent of combination therapy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Journal of neurovirology 2002-04-01 How common it is

    The objective of this study was to describe the occurrence of HIV dementia and neuropsychological testing abnormalities in a new cohort of HIV-seropositive individuals at high risk for HIV dementia and to compare these results to a cohort before the advent of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART).

  40. Functional deficits in patients with mild cognitive impairment: prediction of AD

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Neurology 2002-03-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    These findings indicate that in patients with MCI, the patient's lack of awareness of functional deficits identified by informants strongly predicts a future diagnosis of AD.

  41. [Reliability and validity of the standardized Mini Mental State Examination in the diagnosis of mild dementia in Turkish population]

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Turk psikiyatri dergisi = Turkish journal of psychiatry 2002-01-01 Getting a diagnosis

    The results of this study showed that the Turkish version of the SMMSE has high reliability and validity for the diagnosis of mild dementia in Turkish population.

  42. Current concepts in mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2001-12-01 Getting a diagnosis

    The field of aging and dementia is focusing on the characterization of the earliest stages of cognitive impairment.

  43. Spontaneous speech of patients with dementia of the Alzheimer type and mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. International psychogeriatrics 2001-09-01 Digital health tools

    This article discusses the potential of three assessments of language function in the diagnosis of Alzheimer-type dementia (DAT).

  44. Midlife vascular risk factors and late-life mild cognitive impairment: A population-based study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Neurology 2001-06-26 Mild cognitive impairment

    Data point to a role for midlife vascular risk factors in the development of MCI in late life.

  45. [Spanish language adaptation and validation of the Pfeiffer's questionnaire (SPMSQ) to detect cognitive deterioration in people over 65 years of age]

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Medicina clinica 2001-06-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Mean age was 74.5 years and 65.5% of them were illiterate.

  46. Practice parameter: early detection of dementia: mild cognitive impairment (an evidence-based review) [RETIRED]. Report of the Quality Standards Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Neurology 2001-05-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    There were insufficient data to make any recommendations regarding cognitive screening of asymptomatic individuals.

  47. Mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer disease: regional diffusivity of water

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Radiology 2001-04-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    Hippocampal ADC was significantly different between control subjects and MCI patients, many of whom likely have preclinical Alzheimer disease.

  48. Mild cognitive impairment represents early-stage Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2001-03-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    Individuals currently characterized as having MCI progress steadily to greater stages of dementia severity at rates dependent on the level of cognitive impairment at entry and they almost always have the neuropathologic features of AD.

  49. Classification criteria for mild cognitive impairment: a population-based validation study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Neurology 2001-01-01 How common it is

    MCI criteria perform poorly when applied to a representative population sample.

  50. Clinical validity of the 'mini-mental state' for Spanish speaking communities

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Neuropsychologia 2001-01-01 Getting a diagnosis

    The Mini-Mental State (MMS) is a brief structured test of cognitive function.

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