Mini Mental State Examination and the Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination: Effect of education and norms for a multicultural population

Neurology India

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 106-110

  Mathuranath, P ^a   Cherian, Joseph ^a   Mathew, Robert ^a   George, Annamma ^a   Alexander, Aley ^a   Sarma, Sankara ^b  

^a SREE CHITRA TIRUNAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b Achutha Menon Centre for Health Science Studies   (India)

Author keywords

Addenbrooke's cognitive examination; Dementia; Developing countries; Elderly; Mini mental status examination; Scale; Screening

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; MALE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION;

EID: 34250368025     PISSN: 00283886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0028-3886.32779     Document Type: Article

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