Conversion between Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination III and Mini-Mental State Examination

2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (8) ◽  
pp. 1227-1233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jordi A. Matías-Guiu ◽  
Vanesa Pytel ◽  
Ana Cortés-Martínez ◽  
María Valles-Salgado ◽  
Teresa Rognoni ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Frontotemporal Dementia ◽  
Mental State ◽  
Mini Mental State Examination ◽  
Primary Progressive Aphasia ◽  
Healthy Controls ◽  
Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia ◽  
Progressive Aphasia ◽  
Conversion Table ◽  
State Examination ◽  
Addenbrooke’S Cognitive Examination

ABSTRACTBackground:We aim to provide a conversion between Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination III (ACE-III) and Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) scores, to predict the MMSE result based on ACE-III, thus avoiding the need for both tests, and improving their comparability.Methods:Equipercentile equating method was used to elaborate a conversion table using a group of 400 participants comprising healthy controls and Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients. Then, reliability was assessed in a group of 100 healthy controls and patients with AD, 52 with primary progressive aphasia and 22 with behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia.Results:The conversion table between ACE-III and MMSE denoted a high reliability, with intra-class correlation coefficients of 0.940, 0.922, and 0.902 in the groups of healthy controls and AD, behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia, and primary progressive aphasia, respectively.Conclusion:Our conversion table between ACE-III and MMSE suggests that MMSE may be estimated based on the ACE-III score, which could be useful for clinical and research purposes.

Swallowing in behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia

2021 ◽  
Vol 79 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-14
Author(s):  
Sheilla de Medeiros Correia MARIN ◽  
Letícia Lessa MANSUR ◽  
Fabricio Ferreira de OLIVEIRA ◽  
Luis Fabiano MARIN ◽  
José Roberto WAJMAN ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Frontotemporal Dementia ◽  
Mental State ◽  
Mini Mental State Examination ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia ◽  
Severe Stage ◽  
Swallowing Problems ◽  
Behavioral Features ◽  
Swallowing Difficulties ◽  
State Examination

ABSTRACT Background: Swallowing and feeding problems may occur with the progression of behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) and can impair the anticipatory and oral preparatory phases of swallowing. Objective: To characterize swallowing problems and the feeding situation of patients with bvFTD and to correlate the swallowing problems with functionality, executive functions, cognitive and behavioral features. Methods: Consecutive outpatients with bvFTD in mild, moderate and severe dementia stages were recruited along with their caregivers. Patients and caregivers were screened with the following scales: “Mini-Mental State Examination”, “Severe Mini-Mental State Examination”, “FTLD-modified Clinical Dementia Rating”, “Neuropsychiatric Inventory”, “Frontal Assessment Battery”, “Index of Independence in Activities of Daily Living”, “Swallowing Rating Scale” and “Assessment of Feeding and Swallowing Difficulties in Dementia”. Results: Overall, thirty patients with bvFTD were included along with their caregivers. Patients with bvFTD showed feeding and swallowing difficulties such as: messy to eat, passivity, coughing and choking, difficulty with some food consistencies and with specific food. Swallowing problems in bvFTD correlated with impaired functionality (p<0.05) and cognition (p<0.05), executive dysfunction (p<0.01) and behavioral features (p<0.01). Caregivers had great difficulty in managing the feeding situation during mealtime, with different characteristics in each dementia stage. Conclusion: Patients with bvFTD had inappropriate speed eating, passivity, coughing and choking starting in the mild dementia stage, and these problems worsen in the severe stage. Such difficulties affected caregiver performance during mealtime. The correlations indicated that swallowing difficulties tend to follow cognitive and behavioral decline in patients with bvFTD.

Spanish Version of the Mini-Linguistic State Examination for the Diagnosis of Primary Progressive Aphasia

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Jordi A. Matias-Guiu ◽  
Vanesa Pytel ◽  
Laura Hernández-Lorenzo ◽  
Nikil Patel ◽  
Katie A. Peterson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Primary Progressive Aphasia ◽  
Spanish Version ◽  
Classification Model ◽  
Healthy Controls ◽  
Language Test ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Progressive Aphasia ◽  
Primary Progressive ◽  
Clinical Variants ◽  
State Examination

Background: Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) is a neurodegenerative syndrome with three main clinical variants: non-fluent, semantic, and logopenic. Clinical diagnosis and accurate classification are challenging and often time-consuming. The Mini-Linguistic State Examination (MLSE) has been recently developed as a short language test to specifically assess language in neurodegenerative disorders. Objective: Our aim was to adapt and validate the Spanish version of MLSE for PPA diagnosis. Methods: Cross-sectional study involving 70 patients with PPA and 42 healthy controls evaluated with the MLSE. Patients were independently diagnosed and classified according to comprehensive cognitive evaluation and advanced neuroimaging. Results: Internal consistency was 0.758. The influence of age and education was very low. The area under the curve for discriminating PPA patients and healthy controls was 0.99. Effect sizes were moderate-large for the discrimination between PPA and healthy controls. Motor speech, phonology, and semantic subscores discriminated between the three clinical variants. A random forest classification model obtained an F1-score of 81%for the three PPA variants. Conclusion: Our study provides a brief and useful language test for PPA diagnosis, with excellent properties for both clinical routine assessment and research purposes.

scholarly journals Reliabilita batérie metód na vyhodnotenie kognitívneho deficitu, depresie a funkčného stavu pacientov s demenciou

TESTFÓRUM ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
pp. 4-19
Author(s):  
Štefan Anderko
Keyword(s):  
Mental State ◽  
Cognitive Deficit ◽  
Mini Mental State Examination ◽  
Geriatric Depression Scale ◽  
Depression Scale ◽  
Geriatric Depression ◽  
Retirement Home ◽  
Functional Activities ◽  
State Examination ◽  
Addenbrooke’S Cognitive Examination

V klinickom výskume sme vzorke pacientov (N = 67) z Domova pro seniory Nopova administrovali viaceré psychodiagnostické metódy s cieľom overiť ich reliabilitu a validitu pri širšom popise demencie. Kognitívny deficit sme zisťovali českými prekladmi testov Addenbrookský Kognitívny Test, Revidovaná Verzia, (ACE-R) a Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE). Na screening depresie sme použili Škálu Geriatrickej Depresie v jej 15 položkovej českej verzii (GDS-15). Aktivity denného života sme posudzovali českými verziami Dotazníka Sebestačnosti (DAD-CZ) a Dotazníka Funkčného Stavu (FAQ-CZ). Použité metódy sa z psychometrického hľadiska ukázali ako reliabilné nástroje. In clinical research we have administered various psychodiagnostic methods to a sample of patients (N = 67) of Domov pro seniory Nopova (retirement home) with the objective to verify their reliability in context of broader description of dementia. The cognitive deficit was measured using the Czech translations of Addenbrooke’s Cognitive Examination-Revised (ACE-R) and Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE). For the screening of the depression we used the Geriatric Depression Scale in its 15-item Czech version (GDS-15). The activities of daily living were assessed using the Czech versions of Disability Assessment for Dementia (DAD-CZ) and Functional Activities Questionnaire (FAQ-CZ). The reliability was verified with Cronbach’s alpha. The used methods proved to be reliable tools in psychometric terms.

scholarly journals Converting from the Montreal Cognitive Assessment to the Mini-Mental State Examination-2

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (7) ◽  
pp. e0254055
Author(s):  
Hwabeen Yang ◽  
Daehyuk Yim ◽  
Moon Ho Park
Keyword(s):  
Mental State ◽  
Cognitive Assessment ◽  
Mini Mental State Examination ◽  
Intraclass Correlation ◽  
Montreal Cognitive Assessment ◽  
Cognitive Screening ◽  
Conversion Table ◽  
Linear Smoothing ◽  
Log Linear ◽  
State Examination

Objective The Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) and Mini-Mental State Examination-2 (MMSE-2) are useful psychometric tests for cognitive screening. Many clinicians want to predict the MMSE-2 score based on the MoCA score. To facilitate the transition from the MoCA to the MMSE-2, this study developed a conversion method. Methods This study retrospectively examined the relationship between the MoCA and MMSE-2. Overall, 303 participants were evaluated. We produced a conversion table using the equipercentile equating method with log-linear smoothing. Then, we evaluated the reliability and accuracy of this algorithm to convert the MoCA to the MMSE-2. Results MoCA scores were converted to MMSE-2 scores according to a conversion table that achieved a reliability of 0.961 (intraclass correlation). The accuracy of this algorithm was 84.5% within 3 points difference from the raw score. Conclusions This study reports a reliable and easy conversion algorithm for transforming MoCA scores into converted MMSE-2 scores. This method will greatly enhance the utility of existing cognitive data in clinical and research settings.

scholarly journals The Landscape Montage Technique for diagnosing frontotemporal dementia starting as primary progressive aphasia: a case report

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Masahiko Takaya ◽  
Kazunari Ishii ◽  
Isao Kubota ◽  
Osamu Shirakawa
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Impairment ◽  
Mild Cognitive Impairment ◽  
Frontotemporal Dementia ◽  
Primary Progressive Aphasia ◽  
Language Test ◽  
Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia ◽  
Progressive Aphasia ◽  
Primary Progressive ◽  
Logopenic Aphasia

Abstract Background The Landscape Montage Technique was originally developed by Hisao Nakai, a Japanese psychiatrist, to pursue the possibility and application of a psychotherapeutic approach using drawing for patients with schizophrenia. Drawing was initially adopted to evaluate patients with an impaired ability for verbal expression, particularly for the diagnosis and treatment of patients with schizophrenia. Since its development, the Landscape Montage Technique has been utilized in various clinical settings throughout Japan. This study aimed to evaluate the psychiatric conditions of a patient diagnosed as having primary progressive aphasia using the Landscape Montage Technique at a 3-year follow-up. Case presentation We present the case of a 64-year-old, right-handed Japanese woman initially diagnosed as having logopenic variant primary progressive aphasia or logopenic aphasia. At a 3-year follow-up, logopenic aphasia progressed to behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia or frontotemporal dementia. According to her husband, she began to have speech difficulties approximately 5 years before her first visit. The results of neurocognitive tests suggested mild cognitive impairment or early stages of dementia. Her clinical dementia rating score was 0.5, suggesting a diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment. She had a Raven’s Colored Progressive Matrices score of 31 out of 36, which indicated a nonverbal cognitive ability that was greater than the 90th percentile for her age. The Japanese Standard Language Test of Aphasia, which was performed at two points during the follow-up, indicated the possibility for a diagnosis of primary progressive aphasia given the progression of her aphasia. Based on her clinical symptoms and Japanese Standard Language Test of Aphasia results, a diagnosis of logopenic variant primary progressive aphasia was established. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed severe predominant left frontal and anterior temporal atrophy, as well as bilateral parietal atrophy. Amyloid beta deposition was negative. At the 3-year follow-up, logopenic variant primary progressive aphasia had progressed to behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia. However, the Landscape Montage Technique allowed for the diagnosis of behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia only 2 years after baseline. Conclusions The present study showed that the Landscape Montage Technique can be useful for diagnosing behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia that starts as logopenic variant primary progressive aphasia at earlier stages.

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