Early detection of dementia in multilingual populations: Visual cognitive assessment test (VCAT)

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 156-160

  Kandiah, Nagaendran ^a,b   Zhang, Angeline ^a   Bautista, Dianne Carol ^b,c   Silva, Eveline ^a   Ting, Simon Kang Seng ^a   Ng, Adeline ^a   Assam, Pryseley ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^b DUKE NUS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Singapore)

^c SINGAPORE CLINICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; CONCURRENT VALIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DEMENTIA ASSESSMENT; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; MONTREAL COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT; MULTILINGUALISM; PILOT STUDY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VALIDATION STUDY; VISUAL COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT TEST; VISUOSPATIAL FUNCTION; WORKING MEMORY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FACTUAL DATABASE; MEMORY DISORDERS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REPRODUCIBILITY; SINGAPORE; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTENTION; COGNITION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DEMENTIA; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; SINGAPORE; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 84958874721     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: 1468330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp-2014-309647     Document Type: Article

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