Screening

Types of cognitive error

Minimizing cognitive errors

Cognitive Bias Modification (CBM)

Cognitive Bias Modification (CBM) is new psychiatric therapy; involving just a few 15-minute sessions and no drugs, discussion of feelings, or even a psychiatrist, it is described as a cognitive vac...

Screening Tests

Addenbrooke's nurse wins national award

A nurse from Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridgeshire has been given a national NHS award for his mentoring and teaching skills.

Home-based assessment tool for dementia screening

(Georgia Institute of Technology) Georgia Tech researchers have created a tool that allows adults to screen themselves for early signs of dementia. The home-based computer software is patterned after...

How we risk getting it wrong in cognitive screening too

McPherson asks how we got it wrong with breast screening.1 Will we be asking a similar question of cognitive screening in 10 years’ time? The discipline of public health epidemiology must be given.....

Depression And Anxiety Biomarker Identified In Youths Could Become Inexpensive Screening Tool To Facilitate Early intervention

Scientists have discovered a cognitive biomarker - a biological indicator of a disease - for young adolescents who are at high risk of developing depression and anxiety. Their findings were published...

Dementia Screening At Home

With baby boomers approaching the age of 65 and new cases of Alzheimer's disease expected to increase by 50 percent by the year 2030, Georgia Tech researchers have created a tool that allows adults to...

Efficacy of Teen Alcohol Screening Tool Unclear

A literature review questions the value of brief alcohol screening and intervention tool used in adolescent patients. Medscape Medical News

Cognitive Dysfunction in Retired NFL Players

A small study suggests that football players should undergo cognitive screening. Medscape Neurology

Screening tool tailors care to cosmetic patients' needs

Researchers from the Centre for Appearance Research at the University of the West of England have finished the first round of testing on a new psychological screening tool for prospective cosmetic...

Validation of Addenbrooke's cognitive examination for detecting early dementia in a Japanese population.

There is a clear need for brief, but sensitive and specific, cognitive screening instruments for dementia. We assessed the diagnostic accuracy of the Japanese version of Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examin...

A comparison of screening tools for the assessment of Mild Cognitive Impairment: Preliminary findings.

We report a pilot investigation into the utility of screening tools in Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI). The Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination-Revised (ACE-R), Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) an...

Screening for Cognitive Dysfunction in Corticobasal Syndrome: Utility of Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination.

Introduction: The motor features of corticobasal syndrome (CBS) are well recognized but the fact that many, if not all, affected patients develop cognitive impairment is still underrecognized. The dem...

Translation and adjustment into Spanish language of the screening tool for mild cognitive impairment.

The Test Your Memory (TYM) scale is a screening tool, which assesses mild cognitive impairment (MCI). It has shown better psychometric outcomes than the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE). We aimed...

Adaptation of Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination-Revised for the Greek population.

Background/Purpose: Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination-Revised [1] is a highly sensitive and specific bedside test for the diagnosis of dementia. The aim of this study was to validate a Greek version...