1. The validity of the Memory Alteration Test and the Test Your Memory test for community-based identification of amnestic mild cognitive impairment
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Sally Barber, Krist A. Noonan, Roy W. Jones, John Young, Melanie Burke, Seline Ozer, and Anne Forster
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Male ,Time Factors ,Epidemiology ,General Practice ,Intelligence ,Audiology ,Neuropsychological Tests ,0302 clinical medicine ,Neuropsychological assessment ,Cognitive impairment ,Community based ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,Health Policy ,Age Factors ,Diagnostic test ,Alzheimer's disease ,Reliability ,Test (assessment) ,Cognitive test ,Psychiatry and Mental health ,Educational Status ,Female ,Psychology ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Clinical Neurology ,behavioral disciplines and activities ,Sensitivity and Specificity ,Validity ,03 medical and health sciences ,Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience ,Sex Factors ,Developmental Neuroscience ,mental disorders ,medicine ,Dementia ,Humans ,Cognitive Dysfunction ,Psychiatry ,Memory test ,Aged ,030214 geriatrics ,Mild cognitive impairment ,Reproducibility of Results ,Featured Article ,medicine.disease ,Diagnostic test accuracy ,Neurology (clinical) ,Geriatrics and Gerontology ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery - Abstract
IntroductionThis study investigated the validity of two brief cognitive tests (Memory Alteration Test [M@T] and Test Your Memory [TYM] test) for identifying people with aMCI in the community.MethodsOlder people were invited to participate by their general practitioner practice. Eligible participants were assessed for aMCI using an operationalized approach to the Petersen criteria and the M@T and TYM.ResultsBoth tests demonstrated significant ability in discriminating between people with aMCI and controls (AUC = 0.91 for M@T and 0.80 for TYM [P
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- 2016
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