Summary: Cognitive impairment classifying for dementia syndrome is occasionally detected in patients suffering from old-age depression. When depression improves, cognitive function also may reverse to normal, but these patients are at greater risk for ...
Summary: The present exploratory study focuses on mild cognitive deficits in the elderly, deficits extending in their intensity beyond a normal decline in performance but (as yet) less severe than the onset of dementia. We investigated correlations ...
The DemTect in Clinical Practice: The Sensitivity and Specificity of a Cognitive Screening InstrumentSummary: Cognitive screening tests are helpful instruments to support the diagnosis of dementia. The DemTect, introduced in 2000, is a screening ...
Self-Reported Cognitive Functioning and Quality of Life in Elderly Patients with Mild Cognitive ImpairmentAbstract: In a surveillance study, 2001 patients with clinical diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment were examined before and into 12 weeks of ...
SIDAM: Age- and Education-Specific Reference Values for the Cognitive Test Section According to the New CASMIN Educational ClassificationAbstract: The SIDAM (Structured Interview for the Diagnosis of Dementia of Alzheimer type, Multi-infarct Dementia and ...
Prediction of Dementia. A Prospective Longitudinal Study with the SKT Short TestAbstract: Most dementias are heralded by subtle cognitive impairment. The present prospective study was aimed at determining the validity of the SKT short test for the ...
Neuropsychological Measurement During the Course of Parkinsons disease – Retest Differences for Single Case AnalysisThe “Movement Disorder Society Task Force” (Litvan et al., 2012) has recommended a number of tests for diagnostic work for subjects with ...
Self-Reported Handling of Emotion in Everyday Life – The Influence of Mild Cognitive Impairment and Depression in Older AgeThe aim of the current study is to evaluate the influence of age, mild cognitive impairment, and depression on self-reported ...
Abstract. Due to physical limitations (e. g. difficulties in reading and writing), geriatric inpatients are often not able to complete relevant dementia screening tests. The Bamberg Dementia Screening Test (BDST) is a new dementia screening measure that ...
Abstract.Background: Subjective cognitive complaints and their clinical significance are discussed controversially. Objectives: To determine the clinical validity of subjective cognitive complaints among subjects with subjective cognitive decline (SCD) ...
We report the case of a 59 year old man with a rapidly progressive cognitive decline, neurologic symptoms and recurrent falls. One of the most important differential diagnoses was the lithiumintoxication with normal lithium blood levels. After reducing ...
Background: Cognitively impaired or demented patients may have difficulty performing the complex and multidimensional appraisal required by self-ratings (SR) of quality of life (QoL). Even healthy subjects often refer to their current mood state for QoL ...
The article reviews the relationship between depressive symptoms and mild cognitive impairment (MCI). Evidence bearing on this relation comes from clinical findings, neuroimaging, and cerebrospinal fluid markers. Depression in elderly people is associated ...
The Erlangen Instrument of Alternating Word Fluency in Dementia (EAWF-D) is a new alternating word fluency task that combines set-shifting and semantic word fluency based on psycholinguistic theory that the ability to switch between two different semantic ...
We recently proposed a novel method that aggregates the multidimensional aging pattern across the brain to a single value. This method proved to provide stable and reliable estimates of brain aging – even across different scanners. While investigating ...
We examined whether older individuals with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) differed from healthy controls (HC) and persons with dementia (AD) in objective and perceived behavioral competence as well as in emotional well-being. We used a merged sample of ...
Abstract. New regression-based norms for the SKT Short Cognitive Performance Test were introduced but have not been cross-validated for the detection of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and dementia. We examined 562 (59.6% female) community-dwelling ...
Abstract. Research shows that caregivers of dementia patients experience burden and psychological distress, but it is unclear whether or not caregivers of individuals with cognitive impairments that do not meet a diagnosis for dementia ...
Cognitive impairment and depressive symptoms in old age: Effects of self-reported complaints compared to psychometric results and clinical diagnosisCognitive impairment in old age is often related to increased psychological stress and depressive ...
Cognitive plasticity, learning potential, and rehabilitation potential are new constructs, which are understood as expressions of neural plasticity. They are assessed through dynamic assessment (or testing-the-limits), using experimental test-training-...