Doctors are poor at predicting patients' cognitive function based on a routine, non-cognitive
evaluation alone. 1, 2 Cognitive assessment is a valuable clinical skill. It facilitates the …

Aim The aim of this study was to evaluate the accuracy of the clock drawing test and to
compare its scoring methods. Background Dementia refers to a symptom where an adult …

BACKGROUND: Preoperative risk stratification is commonly performed by assessing end-
organ function (such as cardiac and pulmonary) to define postoperative risk. Little is known …

Freezing of gait (FOG) is a frequent, disabling symptom of Parkinson's disease (PD). FOG
usually lasts a few seconds. It refers to brief paroxysmal events during which a subject is …

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a common, chronic expensive debilitating neurodegenerative
disease with no current treatments to prevent the physical deterioration of the brain and the …

Toglia J, Fitzgerald KA, O'Dell MW, Mastrogiovanni AR, Lin CD. The Mini-Mental State
Examination and Montreal Cognitive Assessment in persons with mild subacute stroke …

OBJECTIVES: The study objectives were (a) to describe the prevalence and severity of
cognitive impairment (CI) in an outpatient veteran population with heart failure (HF),(b) to …

Cerebral white matter lesions (WMLs), also called “leukoaraiosis,” are common
neuroradiological findings in elderly people. WMLs are often located at periventricular and …

The authors studied the validity of the Clock-Drawing Test (CDT) in comparison with the Mini-
Mental State Examination (MMSE) and the association between the CDT and mortality in a …

Objective Although many studies explored the relationship between executive functions (EF)
and activities of daily living (ADLs) in cognitive disorders, previous studies used …