1st Edition
Quick Cognitive Screening for Clinicians Clock-drawing and Other Brief Tests
192 Pages
by
CRC Press
192 Pages
by
CRC Press
192 Pages
by
CRC Press
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Cognitive screening tests are essential instruments for clinicians working with patients suffering from dementias, brain injury, multiple sclerosis and many other neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders. This authoritative book highlights the importance of early detection, focusing on those cognitive screening tests that can be carried out quickly and yet provide essential information for the... Read more
1. Introduction to Cognitive Screening 2. Premorbid Intellectual Functioning 3. Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) 4. The Clock Drawing Test (CDT) 5. Clinical Vignettes 6. Tests of Frontal Lobe Function 7. Short Cognitive Screens and Batteries 8. Informant Questionnaires 9. Neuroimaging Correlates of Cognitive Dysfunction
Biography
Anthony Feinstein, Kenneth I. Shulman
'Quick Cognitive Screening for Clinicians is a most welcome and useful book for health care professionals...The book is well researched and the layout excellent.'
'It is concise, well-written, and well referenced and adds to our insight and understanding of tests which most of us use routinely. I highly recommend it.' both Tischa J.M. van der Cammen in International Psychogeriatrics (2005) 17:1
