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Neurocognitive Disorders (Main Menu)

Neurocognitive disordersBelow are collapsing menus containing links to the MANY articles on this website about NEUROCOGNITIVE DISORDERS, which is the title of the relevant chapter in the DSM-5-TR®.

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Evaluation of cognitive functions

Evaluation of cognitive functioning—General articles

Avoid these common mistakes regarding clinical cognitive testing

Advanced tips on the most important single test for evaluating cognitive functioning

What to do about cognitive complaints in brief outpatient visits


Evaluation of specific cognitive domains

First, which cognitive domains are impaired and to what extent?

Tips for interviewing patients with dementia

Cognitive domains that we need to evaluate: Complex attention

Cognitive domains: Executive function

Cognitive domains: Language

Understanding abnormalities of language: Aphasias

Advanced tips on evaluating verbal fluency clinically

Cognitive domains: Learning and memory

Do you assess semantic advantage in your patients?


Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MOCA)

Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MOCA)

Montreal Cognitive Assessment: Spanish version (MoCA-S)

Items on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA)

How to administer the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA)

How to score the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA)

What cut-off score should we use for the MoCA?

Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MOCA): Psychometric properties

Alternate versions of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA)


Other clinical tests of cognitive functioning

Mini-Cog© clinical screening test for cognitive impairment

Clock Drawing Test: A complete guide for clinicians

Six arguments against the Mini-Mental State Exam


Miscellaneous articles

How to test for B vitamins in patients with cognitive impairment

Neuroimaging in persons with dementia

How exactly to evaluate anticholinergic burden


Neurocognitive disorders—General articles

Neurocognitive disorders in DSM-5-TR

In older adults, avoid medications with anticholinergic activity

Delirium

Tips on diagnosing “delirium superimposed on dementia”

Practice guidelines for delirium


Mild neurocognitive disorder

What is Mild Neurocognitive Disorder


Major neurocognitive disorder (Dementia)

“Mixed pathologies” in Alzheimer’s disease

Sundowning in patients with dementia is important!

Does new-onset psychosis late in life predict the onset of dementia?

Neuroimaging in persons with dementia

Practice guidelines for Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias


Neurocognitive disorder—Alzheimer's disease dementia

“Mixed pathologies” in Alzheimer’s disease

New, “disease-modifying” treatments for Alzheimer’s disease

Why amyloid-β and amyloid plaques are so important

Untangling exactly whom lecanemab is FDA-approved for

How well does lecanemab medication work?

Lecanemab carries an important boxed warning

Should we recommend treatment with lecanemab?

Practice guidelines for Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias


Neurocognitive disorder with Lewy bodies

What is Lewy body dementia?

An introduction to Neurocognitive disorder with Lewy bodies 

DSM-5-TR diagnostic criteria for Neurocognitive disorder with Lewy bodies explained 

Neurocognitive disorder with Lewy bodies: Clinical features

Neurocognitive disorder with Lewy bodies: Diagnosis

Differentiating neurocognitive disorder with Lewy bodies from delirium

Neurocognitive disorder with Lewy bodies: Treatment


Neuropsychiatric symptoms in dementia

Agitation associated with dementia

Why agitation associated with dementia is such an important clinical problem

“Agitation associated with dementia” now has an operational definition

Key points from the APA Practice Guideline on the Use of Antipsychotics to Treat Agitation or Psychosis in Patients with Dementia

Brexpiprazole (Rexulti®) for “agitation associated with dementia due to Alzheimer’s disease”

Citalopram for agitation in Alzheimer’s disease

Case: Agitation in a patient with Alzheimer’s disease


Neuropsychiatric symptoms in dementia—Other articles

Valproate for neuropsychiatric symptoms in dementia?

Melatonin agonists for sundowning in major neurocognitive disorder (dementia)?

Carbamazepine for neuropsychiatric symptoms in persons with dementia?

Gabapentin for neuropsychiatric symptoms of dementia?

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