Limitations for interpreting failure on individual subtests of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment

Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 19-28

  Moafmashhadi, Parastoo ^a   Koski, Lisa ^a  

^a ROYAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

aging; cognitive impairment; dementia; Montreal Cognitive Assessment; neuropsychology

Indexed keywords

AGED; APTITUDE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MONTREAL COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT SUBTEST SCORE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; OUTPATIENT; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPATIAL MEMORY; STROOP TEST; VISUAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTENTION; COGNITION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DEMENTIA; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 84875740073     PISSN: 08919887     EISSN: 15525708     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0891988712473802     Document Type: Article

References (51)

1. Petersen RC. Mild cognitive impairment as a diagnostic entity. J Intern Med. 2004 ; 256 (3). 183-194
2. Royall DR. Mild cognitive impairment and functional status. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2006 ; 54 (1). 163-165
3. Chong MS, Sahadevan S. Preclinical Alzheimer's disease: diagnosis and prediction of progression. Lancet Neurol. 2005 ; 4 (9). 576-579
4. Albert MS, Moss MB, Tanzi R, Jones K. Preclinical prediction of AD using neuropsychological tests. J Int Neuropsychol Soc. 2001 ; 7 (5). 631-639
5. Griffith HR, Netson KL, Harrell LE, Zamrini EY, Brockington JC, Marson DC. Amnestic mild cognitive impairment: diagnostic outcomes and clinical prediction over a two-year time period. J Int Neuropsychol Soc. 2006 ; 12 (2). 166-175
6. Tabert MH, Albert SM, Borukhova-Milov L, et al. Functional deficits in patients with mild cognitive impairment: prediction of AD. Neurology. 2002 ; 58 (5). 758-764
7. Galvin JE, Pollack J, Morris JC. Clinical phenotype of Parkinson disease dementia. Neurology. 2006 ; 67 (9). 1605-1611
8. Williams-Gray C, Foltynie T, Brayne C, Robbins T, Barker R.. Evolution of cognitive dysfunction in an incident Parkinson's disease. Brain. 2007 ; 130 (pt 7). 1787-1798
9. Perry RJ, Hodges JR. Differentiating frontal and temporal variant frontotemporal dementia from Alzheimer's disease. Neurology. 2000 ; 54 (12). 2277-2284
10. Mckeith IG, Galasko D, Kosaka K, et al. Consensus guidelines for the clinical and pathologic diagnosis of dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB): report of the consortium on DLB international workshop. Neurology. 1996 ; 47 (5). 1113-1124
11. Decarli C, Mungas D, Harvey D, et al. Memory impairment, but not cerebrovascular disease, predicts progression of MCI to dementia - Reply from the authors. Neurology. 2004 ; 63 (2). 220-227
12. De Jager CA, Hogervorst E, Combrinck M, Budge MM. Sensitivity and specificity of neuropsychological tests for mild cognitive impairment, vascular cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease. Psychological Medicine. 2003 ; 33 (6). 1039-1050
13. Folstein MF, Folstein SE, Mchugh PR. "Mini-mental state". A practical method for grading the cognitive state of patients for the clinician. J Psychiatr Res. 1975 ; 12 (3). 189-198
14. Nasreddine ZS, Phillips NA, Bedirian V, et al. The Montreal Cognitive Assessment, MoCA: a brief screening tool for mild cognitive impairment. J Am Geriatr Soc.. 2005 ; 53 (4). 695-699
15. Chow TW, Hynan LS, Lipton AM. MMSE scores decline at a greater rate in frontotemporal degeneration than in AD. Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord. 2006 ; 22 (3). 194-199
16. Brandt J, Folstein SE, Folstein MF. Differential cognitive impairment in Alzheimer's disease and Huntington's disease. Ann Neurol. 1988 ; 23 (6). 555-561
17. Palmqvist S, Hansson O, Minthon L, Londos E. Practical suggestions on how to differentiate dementia with Lewy bodies from Alzheimer's disease with common cognitive tests. Int J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2009 ; 24 (12). 1405-1412
18. Nelson A, Fogel BS, Faust D. Bedside Cognitive Screening Instruments - a Critical-Assessment. J Nerv Ment Dis. 1986 ; 174 (2). 73-83
19. Small BJ, Fratiglioni L, Viitanen M, Winblad B, Backman L. The course of cognitive impairment in preclinical Alzheimer disease: three- and 6-year follow-up of a population-based sample. Arch Neurol. 2000 ; 57 (6). 839-844
20. Small BJ, Viitanen M, Backman L. Mini-Mental State Examination item scores as predictors of Alzheimer's disease: incidence data from the Kungsholmen Project, Stockholm. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci.. 1997 ; 52 (5). M299-304
21. Ercoli LM, Siddarth P, Dunkin JJ, Bramen J, Small GW. MMSE items predict cognitive decline in persons with genetic risk for Alzheimer's disease. J Geriatr Psychiatry Neurol. 2003 ; 16 (2). 67-73
22. Benedict RHB, Brandt J. Limitation of the Mini-Mental State Examination for the detection of amnesia. J Geriatr Psychiatry Neurol. 1992 ; 5 (4). 233-237
23. Mitrushina M, Satz P. Utility of mini-mental state examination in assessing cognition in the elderly. Aging (Milano). 1994 ; 6 (6). 427-432
24. Athilingam P, King KB, Burgin SW, Ackerman M, Cushman LA, Chen L. Montreal cognitive assessment and mini-mental status examination compared as cognitive screening tools in heart failure. Heart Lung. 2011 ; 40 (6). 521-529
25. Olson RA, Iverson GL, Carolan H, Parkinson M, Brooks BL, Mckenzie M. Prospective comparison of two cognitive screening tests: diagnostic accuracy and correlation with community integration and quality of life. J Neurooncol. 2011 ; 105 (2). 337-344
26. Hoops S, Nazem S, Siderowf AD, et al. Validity of the MoCA and MMSE in the detection of MCI and dementia in Parkinson disease. Neurology. 2009 ; 73 (21). 1738-1745
27. Smith T, Gildeh N, Holmes C. The Montreal Cognitive Assessment: validity and utility in a memory clinic setting. Can J Psychiatry. 2007 ; 52 (5). 329-332
28. Zadikoff C, Fox SH, Tang-Wai DF, et al. A comparison of the mini mental state exam to the Montreal cognitive assessment in identifying cognitive deficits in Parkinson's disease. Mov Disord. 2008 ; 23: 297-299
29. Duro D, Simoes MR, Ponciano E, Santana I. Validation studies of the Portuguese experimental version of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA): confirmatory factor analysis. J Neurol. 2010 ; 257 (5). 728-734
30. Montero-Odasso M, Muir SW.. Simplifying detection of mild cognitive impairment subtypes. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2010 ; 58 (5). 992-994
31. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual Of Mental Disorders (4th ed, Text Revision). Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association ; 2000 :
32. Wechsler D Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale- Revised. New York, NY: The Psychological Corporation ; 1997 :
33. Troyer AK, Leach L, Strauss E. Aging and response inhibition: normative data for the victoria stroop test. Aging Neuropsychol Cogn. 2006 ; 13 (1). 20-35
34. Kaplan EF, Goodglass H, Weintraub S. Boston: Kaplan & Goodglass ; 1983 :
35. Spreen O, Benton AL Neurosensory Center Comprehensive Examination for Aphasia. Victoria, BC: Neuropsychology Laboratory, University of Victoria ; 1977 :
36. Solomon PR, Hirschoff A, Kelly B, et al. A 7 minute neurocognitive screening battery highly sensitive to Alzheimer's disease. Arch Neurol. 1998 ; 55 (3). 349-355
37. Morris JC, Heyman A, Mohs RC, et al. The Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer's Disease (CERAD). Part I. Clinical and neuropsychological assessment of Alzheimer's disease. Neurology. 1989 ; 39 (9). 1159-1165
38. Tombaugh TN, Kozak J, Rees L.. Normative data stratified by age and education for two measures of verbal fluency: FAS and animal naming. Arch Clin Neuropsychol. 1999 ; 14 (2). 167-177
39. Wechsler D Wechsler Memory Scale-Revised. San Antonio, TX: The Psychological Corporation ; 1997 :
40. Ivnik RJ, Malec JF, Smith GE, Tangalos EG, Petersen RC. Neuropsychological tests' norms above age 55: COWAT, BNT, MAE token, WRAT-R reading, AMNART, STROOP, TMT, and JLO. Clinical Neuropsychologist. 1996 ; 10 (3). 262-278
41. Rubin DB. Multiple imputation for nonresponse in surveys. New York, NY: John Wiley. Reprinted as a Wiley Classic ; 1984, 2004: 2004.
42. Benjamin Y, Hochberg Y. Controlling the false discovery rate: a practical and powerful approach to multiple testing. J R Statist Soc B. 1995 ; 57 (1). 289-300
43. Cohen J. Things I Have Learned (So Far). American Psychologist. 1990 ; 45 (12). 1304-1312
44. Feher EP, Mahurin RK, Doody RS, Cooke N, Sims J, Pirozzolo FJ. Establishing the limits of the Mini-Mental State. Examination of 'subtests'. Arch Neurol. 1992 ; 49 (1). 87-92
45. White TG, Bauer RM, Bowers D, Crosson B, Kessler HR. Recall of three words after five minutes: its relationship to performance on neuropsychological memory tests. Appl Neuropsychol. 1995 ; 2 (3-4). 130-138
46. Cullum CM, Thompson LL, Smernoff EN. Three-word recall as a measure of memory. J Clin Exp Neuropsychol. 1993 ; 15 (12). 321-329
47. Chandler MJ, Lacritz LH. Cicerello AR, et al Three-word recall in normal aging. J Clin Exp Neuropsychol. 2004 ; 26 (8). 1128-1133
48. Xie H, Mayo N, Koski L.. Predictors of future cognitive decline in persons with mild cognitive impairment. [Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't]. Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord. 2011 ; 32 (5). 308-317
49. Giordani B, Boivin MJ, Hall AL, et al. The utility and generality of Mini-Mental State Examination scores in Alzheimer's disease. Neurology. 1990 ; 40 (12). 1894-1896
50. Jefferson AL, Cosentino SA, Ball SK, Bogdanoff B, Leopold N, Kaplan E, Libon DJ. Errors produced on the mini-mental state examination and neuropsychological test performance in Alzheimer's disease, ischemic vascular dementia, and Parkinson's disease. J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci. 2002 ; 14 (3). 311-320
51. Koski L, Xie H, Finch L.. Measuring cognition in a geriatric outpatient clinic: Rasch analysis of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment. J Geriatr Psychiatry Neurol. 2009 ; 22 (3). 151-160