OBJECTIVES Assessment of the predictive ability of the Mini-Mental Status Exam (MMSE) domains (orientation to time, orientation to place, registration, attention and calculation, recall, language, and visual construction) for falls in Mexican American elders tested the hypothesis that low MMSE domain scores are related to an increased number of falls. DESIGN Data were obtained from the 1998-9...

Very high-speed data services are demanded in the next generation wireless systems. However, the available bandwidth is limited. The use of multi-input multi-output (MIMO) multiplexing can increase the transmission rate without bandwidth expansion. For high-speed data transmission, however, the channel becomes severely frequency-selective and the achievable bit error rate (BER) performance degr...

Lead exposure has been found to affect cognitive function in several different populations. Whether chronic low-level environmental exposure to lead results in cognitive decline among adults has not been examined. The authors assessed the relation between biomarkers of lead exposure and change in Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) scores in the Normative Aging Study, a cohort of elderly US me...

BACKGROUND Improved understanding of the pattern of cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease (AD) would be useful to assist primary care physicians in explaining AD progression to patients and caregivers. OBJECTIVE To identify the sequence in which cognitive abilities decline in community-dwelling patients with AD. METHODS Baseline data were analyzed from 1,495 patients diagnosed with proba...

Question In adults with cognitive impairment or memory problems how effective is the MoCA (Montreal Cognitive Assessment) compared to the MMSE (Mini Mental State Examination) in memory management / managing cognitive impairment? Evidence from six diagnostic test accuracy studies indicated that the MoCA is likely to perform as well as or better than the MMSE for the diagnosis of cognitive impair...

Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) spatial multiplexing is a powerful technique to increase the transmission data rate. However, if MIMO spatial multiplexing is applied to single-carrier (SC) block transmissions, it suffers from the intersymbol interference (ISI) as well as the inter-antenna interference (IAI). In this paper, we propose a joint transmit/receive frequency-domain (FD) filterin...

Background The Oxford Cognitive Screen (OCS) was recently developed with the aim of describing the cognitive deficits after stroke. The scale consists of 10 tasks encompassing five cognitive domains: attention and executive function, language, memory, number processing, and praxis. OCS was devised to be inclusive and un-confounded by aphasia and neglect. As such, it may have a greater potential...

BACKGROUND The Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) was developed to enable earlier detection of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) relative to familiar multi-domain tests like the Mini-Mental State Exam (MMSE). Clinicians need to better understand the relationship between MoCA and MMSE scores. METHODS For this cross-sectional study, we analyzed 219 healthy control (HC), 299 MCI, and 100 Alzheim...

BACKGROUND Postoperative delirium is one of the most common postoperative complications in geriatric patients. Mini-mental state examination (MMSE) assesses cognitive function in patients and is associated with postoperative delirium. However, whether there is an age-dependent relationship between preoperative MMSE score and postoperative delirium remains unknown. METHODS We therefore set out...

OBJECTIVE To explore whether the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) and Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) can be used to screen for dementia or mild cognitive impairment (MCI) in less educated patients with Parkinson's disease (PD). METHODS We reviewed the medical records of PD patients who had taken the Korean MMSE (K-MMSE), Korean MoCA (K-MoCA), and comprehensive neuropsychological tes...