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2. A New 5-Minute Test For Dementia Is Here—Would You ... - AOL

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   An estimated 5.8 million people in the U.S. have Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, but the condition can be tricky to diagnose.Patients usually are put through a series of tests, and it ...

3. Informant Questionnaire on Cognitive Decline in the Elderly

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   Probably the best-known dementia screening test of this kind is the mini–mental state examination. A disadvantage of such tests is that they are affected by the person's level of education, familiarity with the dominant language and culture in their country, and level of intelligence before the onset of dementia. [1]

4. Cognitive Abilities Screening Instrument - Wikipedia

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   The Cognitive Abilities Screening Instrument (CASI) is a cognitive test screening for dementia, in monitoring the disease progression, and in providing profiles of cognitive impairment by examining abilities on attention, concentration, orientation, short-term memory, long-term memory, language abilities, visual construction, list-generating fluency, abstraction, and judgment with score ranges ...

5. Abbreviated mental test score - Wikipedia

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   The following questions are put to the patient. Each question correctly answered scores one point. A score of 7–8 or less suggests cognitive impairment at the time of testing, [4] although further and more formal tests are necessary to confirm a diagnosis of dementia, delirium or other causes of cognitive impairment. Culturally-specific ...

6. New test may predict dementia up to 9 years before ... - AOL

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   The study focused on all-cause dementia, as well as risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease, the most common type of dementia. A new test can predict dementia with 82% accuracy, according to ...

7. Signs of Alzheimer’s were everywhere. Then his brain improved

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   Vascular dementia, the second most common type of dementia after Alzheimer’s disease, can be caused by atherosclerosis, a buildup of plaque in the arteries that can lead to heart attacks, stroke ...