Background: Diagnostic investigation of dementia is based on a series of tests which lie the neuropsychological evaluations. The Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) was developed as an instrument to recognize Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) and initial cases of Alzheimer’s disease. The present study aims to evaluate the predictive value of Brazilian MoCA test version in a sample of elderly abo...

Diagnosis of Parkinson's disease dementia is a challenge in clinical settings. A comprehensive neuropsychological evaluation is time-consuming and expensive; brief instruments for cognitive evaluation must be easier to administer and provide a reliable classification. Objective To study the validity of the Brazilian version of Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination-Revised (ACE-R) for the cognit...

OBJECTIVE Multiple sclerosis and major depressive disorder frequently co-occur but depression often remains undiagnosed in this population. Self-rated depression questionnaires are a good option where clinician-based standardized diagnostics are not feasible. However, there is a paucity of data on diagnostic accuracy of self-report measures for depression in multiple sclerosis (MS). Moreover, h...

Currently, the assessment of autonomy and functional ability involves clinical rating scales. However, scales are often limited in their ability to provide objective and sensitive information. By contrast, information and communication technologies may overcome these limitations by capturing more fully functional as well as cognitive disturbances associated with Alzheimer disease (AD). We inves...

Abstract Cognitive technologies and artificial intelligence dynamize the development of modern world in various spheres. Modern man is not always aware how often he uses this type technology, both everyday life at work. The conducted literature research has shown a growing interest discussed issues. diagnostic survey allowed assessment level familiarity with terms “cognitive technologies” “arti...

OBJECTIVES In this study, the authors assessed the potential utility of a recently developed questionnaire (Evaluation of Children's Listening and Processing Skills [ECLiPS]) for supporting the clinical assessment of children referred for auditory processing disorder (APD). DESIGN A total of 49 children (35 referred for APD assessment and 14 from mainstream schools) were assessed for auditory...

Dementia is diagnosed by a specialised clinician based on the patient's cognitive abilities in different areas. Since there an ever-growing variety of medical procedures available, it can be hard to assess where each procedure fits process screening AD, and more notably, how contents these procedures, i.e. tests activities, map domains assessed during process. Therefore, this research reviews c...

Diagnostic classification models (DCMs) are restricted latent class with a set of cross-class equality constraints and additional monotonicity on their item parameters, both which needed to ensure the meaning classes model parameters. In this paper, we develop an efficient, Gibbs sampling-based Bayesian Markov chain Monte Carlo estimation method for general DCMs constraints. A simulation study ...

OBJECTIVES The interpretation of long term cognitive impairment after whiplash injury is still a problem for many physicians. On the grounds of nuclear medicine findings previous research speculated that brain damage is responsible for cognitive problems of patients with whiplash. To test this hypothesis the relation between neuroimaging and neuropsychological findings was analysed. METHODS T...