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2. A New 5-Minute Test For Dementia Is Here—Would You Take It?

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   An estimated 5.8 million people in the U.S. have Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, but the condition can be tricky to diagnose.Patients usually are put through a series of tests, and it ...

3. New question-based test may help spot early signs of dementia

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   Researchers from Murdoch University have developed a screening test where people self-report their concerns in six different cognitive areas to help determine a person’s dementia risk.

4. A simple tool may be able to predict your risk for both ...

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   A noninvasive tool for predicting dementia and stroke risk may also help assess someone’s risk of developing depression late in life, ... Science & Tech. Sports. Weather. 24/7 Help.

5. General Practitioner Assessment of Cognition - Wikipedia

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   A recently conducted study in Australia [8] found that the GPCOG in comparison to the MMSE and Rowland Universal Dementia Assessment Scale (RUDAS) [9] was best to rule out dementia in a multicultural cohort of 151 community-dwelling persons. [8] Its sensitivity was higher (98.1) as compared to MMSE and RUDAS (84.3 and 87.7, respectively).

6. Informant Questionnaire on Cognitive Decline in the Elderly

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   This is in contrast to conventional dementia screening tests like the Mini-Mental State Examination, which are affected by education and intelligence as well as the presence of dementia. [ 3 ] A Cochrane review conducted in 2021 focused on the use of the IQCODE in primary care settings for the detection of dementia was unable to provide any ...

7. Clinical Dementia Rating - Wikipedia

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   Therefore, early and accurate diagnosis of dementia and staging can be essential to proper clinical care. Without the ability to reliably assess dementia across the board, the misuse of anti-dementia compounds could have negative consequences, such as patients receiving the wrong medication, or not receiving treatment in the early stages of ...

8. New test may predict dementia up to 9 years before ... - AOL

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   The study focused on all-cause dementia, as well as risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease, the most common type of dementia. A new test can predict dementia with 82% accuracy, according to ...

9. Serial sevens - Wikipedia

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   Serial sevens (or, more generally, the descending subtraction task; DST), where a patient counts down from one hundred by sevens, is a clinical test used to test cognition; for example, to help assess mental status after possible head injury, in suspected cases of dementia or to show sleep inertia.