1st Edition

Quick Cognitive Screening for Clinicians Clock-drawing and Other Brief Tests

    192 Pages
    by CRC Press

    192 Pages
    by CRC Press

    Cognitive screening tests are essential instruments for clinicians working with patients suffering from dementias, brain injury, multiple sclerosis and many other neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders. This authoritative book highlights the importance of early detection, focusing on those cognitive screening tests that can be carried out quickly and yet provide essential information for the assessment, management and treatment of these patients. Explanation is given on how and when these tests should be used and the book also helps to synthesize the vast body of literature available in this area, providing clinicians with essential practical tools for use in their daily practice.

    1. Introduction to Cognitive Screening 2. Premorbid Intellectual Functioning 3. Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) 4. The Clock Drawing Test (CDT) 5. Clinical Vignettes 6. Tests of Frontal Lobe Function 7. Short Cognitive Screens and Batteries 8. Informant Questionnaires 9. Neuroimaging Correlates of Cognitive Dysfunction

    Biography

    Anthony Feinstein, Kenneth I. Shulman

    'Quick Cognitive Screening for Clinicians is a most welcome and useful book for health care professionals...The book is well researched and the layout excellent.'
    'It is concise, well-written, and well referenced and adds to our insight and understanding of tests which most of us use routinely. I highly recommend it.'
    both Tischa J.M. van der Cammen in International Psychogeriatrics (2005) 17:1