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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
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