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The Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination (ACE) and its subsequent versions (Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination-Revised, ACE-R [1] and Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination III, ACE-III) are neuropsychological tests used to identify cognitive impairment in conditions such as dementia.
There is no assessment of executive function, phonemic fluency, or motor responses. It takes about half an hour to administer. [3] It was originally introduced in the screening for dementia, but has also found application in other situations, [3] such as hepatic encephalopathy. [4]
Using a structured-interview protocol developed by Charles Hughes, [1] Leonard Berg, John C. Morris and other colleagues at Washington University School of Medicine, a qualified health professional assesses a patient's cognitive and functional performance in six areas: memory, orientation, judgment & problem solving, community affairs, home & hobbies, and personal care.
The Boston Naming Test (BNT), introduced in 1983 by Edith Kaplan, Harold Goodglass and Sandra Weintraub, is a widely used neuropsychological assessment tool to measure confrontational word retrieval in individuals with aphasia or other language disturbance caused by stroke, Alzheimer's disease, or other dementing disorder. [1]
Elizabeth Kerr Warrington FRS (born 1931) [1] is a British neuropsychologist specialised in the study of dementia.She holds a PhD in Psychology visual processing and is now an emeritus professor of clinical neuropsychology at the University College London.
The model was developed by Dr. Kathleen Stevens at the Academic Center for Evidence-Based Practice located at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. [3] The model has been represented in many nursing textbooks , used as part of an intervention to increase EBP competencies, and as a framework for instruments measuring EBP ...
In the 2009 book Dirty rotten strategies by Ian I. Mitroff and Abraham Silvers described type III and type IV errors providing many examples of both developing good answers to the wrong questions (III) and deliberately selecting the wrong questions for intensive and skilled investigation (IV). Most of the examples have nothing to do with ...
John Addenbrooke may refer to: John Addenbrooke (philanthropist) (1680–1719), English medical doctor and founder of Addenbrooke's Hospital John Addenbrooke (priest) (c. 1691–1776), Dean of Lichfield