The authors evaluated whether an abnormal Mini-Mental Score Examination (MMSE) score predicts uncontrolled hypertension even if office blood pressure is normal. Seventy-seven hypertensive patients were included. The cognitive function of each patient was assessed using MMSE and a customized brain magnetic...
Mini-Mental Status Exam (MMSE)PrimerThe Mini-Mental Status Exam (MMSE) is a cognitive screening tool that provides a brief, objective measure of cognitive function. It can be used to screen for cognitive impairment, to estimate the severity of the impairment, and to document cognitive change ...
2.Mini-MentalStateExamScoring: TheofficialtotalscorefortheMMSE(i.e.thescoresusedforstatistical analyses)arecomputergenerated.Examinersrecordindividualtestitemscores ontheMMSEtestform.Theoneexceptionis"WORLD"whereexaminers recordtheresponseofsubjectsintheexactorderthatitisgivenbythesubject. ...
The Mini-Mental State Exam (MMSE) is a brief, structured test of mental status that takes about 10 minutes to complete. Introduced by Marshall Folstein and others in 1975, the MMSE is the most commonly used test to assess problems with memory and other cognitive functions. Learn what the...
Brief cognitive screening of the elderly: a comparison of the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), Abbreviated Mental Test (AMT) and Mental Status Questio... In a population survey in Stockholm, 224 dementia cases were staged using two scales: the Washington University Clinical Dementia Rating ...
MINI-MENTAL STATE EXAM (MMSE) BACKGROUND The MMSE is screening tool that provides a brief, objective measure of cognitive function. MMSE scores are useful in quantitatively estimating the severity of cognitive impairment and in serially documenting cognitive change. The measure serves as one of the...
Abbreviations: ROC, receiver-operating characteristic; MMSE-2, Mini–Mental Status Examination – 2; SV, standard version; DSM-IV-TR, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Text Revision; AUC, area under the curve; CI, confidence interval; SE, standard error. 798...
Article: Validating mini-mental status, cognitive capacity screening and Hamilton depression scales utilizing subjects with vascular headaches
The Mini-Mental Exam (Mini-ME)doi:10.1300/J018v27n01_02This research explored the possibility that a short and unobtrusive test of cognitive functioning might be developed for use when cognitive data are not available or in nonclinical surveys of the elderly. Drawing on data from an ...
The correlation of education with performance on mental status tests is one of the more robust findings in studies of cognition and aging. Some authors have concluded that education may be the most significant risk factor for dementia identified to date (Mortimer & Graves, 1993). Others have arg...