Impairment in both an odor identification test and global cognition is comparable to positron emission tomography (PET) with 11C-Pittsburgh compound B (11C-PiB) for predicting cognitive decline and ...
“The current gold standard test, the Mini-Mental State Examination ... attending a memory clinic who had been diagnosed with dementia or mild memory impairment. Controls attained an average ...
The General Practitioner Assessment of Cognition (GPCOG) is a short screening tool for dementia. The test includes a patient assessment and a caregiver interview. It takes about four to six minutes to ...
Courtesy: Robyn Birkeland The goal of the center is to find a better way to test the types of interventions that can benefit people living with dementia or those who care for them, Gaugler said.