Cognitive tests to detect dementia: a systematic review and meta-analysis

KKF Tsoi, JYC Chan, HW Hirai, SYS Wong… - JAMA internal …, 2015 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Dementia is a global public health problem. The Mini-Mental State Examination
(MMSE) is a proprietary instrument for detecting dementia, but many other tests are also …

Clock‐drawing: is it the ideal cognitive screening test?

KI Shulman - International journal of geriatric psychiatry, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
Objective. The clock‐drawing test has achieved widespread clinical use in recent years as a
cognitive screening instrument and a significant amount of literature relates to its …

Diagnostic procedures for Parkinson's disease dementia: recommendations from the movement disorder society task force

B Dubois, D Burn, C Goetz, D Aarsland… - Movement …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
A preceding article described the clinical features of Parkinson's disease dementia (PD‐D)
and proposed clinical diagnostic criteria for “probable” and “possible” PD‐D. The main focus …

CLOX: an executive clock drawing task

DR Royall, JA Cordes, M Polk - Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery …, 1998 - jnnp.bmj.com
OBJECTIVE To describe a clock drawing task (CLOX) designed to elicit executive
impairment and discriminate it from non-executive constructional failure. SUBJECTS 90 …

Dementia: What pharmacists need to know

S Duong, T Patel, F Chang - Canadian Pharmacists Journal …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Dementia is a devastating disease that places a significant physical, emotional and financial
burden on patients, their caregivers and society. About 564,000 Canadians have dementia …

Cognitive tests for the detection of mild cognitive impairment (MCI), the prodromal stage of dementia: Meta‐analysis of diagnostic accuracy studies

A Breton, D Casey… - International journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is regarded as a prodrome to dementia.
Various cognitive tests can help with diagnosis; meta‐analysis of diagnostic accuracy …

Clock‐drawing and dementia in the community: a longitudinal study

KI Shulman, D Pushkar Gold, CA Cohen… - … journal of geriatric …, 1993 - Wiley Online Library
The clock‐drawing test was used in a longitudinal study of 183 dementing individuals and
their caregivers. Clock‐drawing performance was measured by a simple standardized score …

Quantitative and qualitative analyses of clock drawings in Alzheimer's and Huntington's disease

I Rouleau, DP Salmon, N Butters, C Kennedy… - Brain and …, 1992 - Elsevier
Although visuoconstructive impairment has been reported in both Alzheimer's (DAT) and
Huntington's (HD) disease, there is little knowledge concerning how this cognitive deficit …

Vitamin E for Alzheimer's dementia and mild cognitive impairment

N Farina, D Llewellyn, MGEKN Isaac… - Cochrane database of …, 2017 - cochranelibrary.com
Background Vitamin E occurs naturally in the diet. It has several biological activities,
including functioning as an antioxidant to scavenge toxic free radicals. Evidence that free …

Exposure to gamma tACS in Alzheimer's disease: A randomized, double-blind, sham-controlled, crossover, pilot study

A Benussi, V Cantoni, MS Cotelli, M Cotelli, C Brattini… - Brain Stimulation, 2021 - Elsevier
Objective To assess whether exposure to non-invasive brain stimulation with transcranial
alternating current stimulation at γ frequency (γ-tACS) applied over Pz (an area overlying the …