Screen Memory

Screening for dementia with the memory impairment screen.

OBJECTIVES To validate a sensitive and specific screening test for AD and other dementias, assess its reliability and discriminative validity, and present normative data for its use in various applied settings. BACKGROUND To improve discrimination in screening for AD and dementia, we developed the Memory Impairment Screen (MIS), a 4-minute, four-item, delayed free- and cued-recall test of mem...

Visual Screen: Transforming an Ordinary Screen into a Touch Screen

Touch screens are very convenient because one can directly point to where it is interesting. This paper presents an inexpensive technique to transform an ordinary screen into a touch screen using an ordinary camera. The setup is easy: position a camera so it can see the whole screen. The system calibration involves the detection of the screen region in the image. which determines the projective...

کنترل شن توسط Expandable Sand Screen

The Memory Impairment Screen more accurately screened for Alzheimer disease than the 3-word memory test in older adults.

D e s c r i p t i o n o f t e s t s a n d d i a g n o s t i c s t a n d a r d The MIS is a 4-minute, 4-item delayed memory test assessing free and cued word recall. The conventional 3-word memory test is a delayed free recall memory task from the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE). The MIS and 3-word memory test were given on different days by different examiners. AD was diagnosed by clinical...

When to screen and not to screen

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most common cause of cancer-related deaths with treatment of advanced and metastatic CRC (mCRC) remaining palliative at best. (1) The epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) has been identified as a therapeutic target for a multitude of malignancies, including mCRC. Ligand-binding to EGFR results in the subsequent activation of multiple signal transduction p...