background: the kaufman assessment battery for children 2 nd edition (kabc-ii) is an individually administered measure of the processing and cognitive abilities of children and adolescents aged 3 through 18. it is for assessing neurological, psychoeducational, clinical and psychological aspects of all the pre-school and high-school levels. this is a theory-based clinical instrument that contrib...

background and purpose: cognitive impairment (ci) is one of the causes of disabilities in multiple sclerosis patients (ms). therefore, early detection and evaluation of cognitive performance is very important in patients with ms. the aim of the present study is to compare montreal cognitive assessment (moca) test and mini mental status exam (mmse) in relapsing remitting (rr) ms patients. method...

Introduction Standardized instruments have been increasingly used in the psychiatric assessment of children and adolescents in clinical and research settings. There are many instruments with different characteristics which vary according to their purposes such as diagnostic formulation, identification of symptoms, on the assessment of personality and emotional dynamics or cognitive development....

OBJECTIVES To develop the Test Your Memory (TYM)-Spanish version (TYM-S), a self-administered cognitive screening test, in a Chilean older sample and to estimate its psychometric properties and diagnostic accuracy. METHODS The TYM was translated into Spanish and adapted for a Chilean population to develop the TYM-S. Measures of global cognitive impairment and executive dysfunction were admini...

BACKGROUND The impact of cognitive impairment on activities of daily living (ADL) is being used as a major criterion for differentiating between mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and dementia. The concept of an ADL threshold that separates MCI from dementia, however, appears to be improbable for several reasons. OBJECTIVES To determine whether complex ADL are impaired in patients with MCI; to e...

Background: Improved dementia identification is a global health priority, and general practitioners (GPs) are often the first point of contact for people with concerns about their cognition. However, GPs often express uncertainty in using assessment tools and the evidence based on which tests are most accurate in identifying dementia is unclear. In particular, there is little certainty around h...

This paper examines the value of intelligence testing for the purpose of informing us how best to intervene with children with reading disability. While the original function of IQ testing was to ascertain whether a child was capable of profiting from schooling, there are many who now claim that cognitive assessment offers a range of diagnostic and prescriptive functions which can help teachers...

INTRODUCTION Schema-based instruction has been shown to improve diagnostic performance and reduce cognitive load. However, to date, this has only been studied in controlled research settings. More distractions in classrooms may limit generalizability to real-world settings. We evaluated whether schema-based instruction would maintain its effects on cognitive load optimization and performance in...