Study: 10-minute cognitive test MoCA helps predict long-term motor, cognitive and mortality outcomes after stroke

By SharpBrains | October 19, 2018

___ Sim­ple test may help pre­dict long-term out­come after stroke (Sci­ence Dai­ly): “We found that this test, which takes less than 10 min­utes, can help pre­dict whether peo­ple will have impaired think­ing skills, prob­lems that keep them from per­form­ing dai­ly tasks such as bathing and dress­ing and even whether they will be more like­ly to die,”…

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On the value and the limits of cognitive screening, as seen in President Trump’s examination

By SharpBrains | January 17, 2018

In the News: Why you may be mis­un­der­stand­ing the men­tal test that Trump passed with fly­ing col­ors (The Wash­ing­ton Post): “On its sur­face, the Mon­tre­al Cog­ni­tive Assess­ment (MoCA) test seems pret­ty easy. Can you draw a three-dimen­­sion­al cube? Can you iden­ti­fy these var­i­ous ani­mals? Can you draw a clock? Can you repeat back the phrase, “The cat…

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