Objective To report descriptive and normative data for the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) in a population-based African American sample. Method The MoCA was administered to 1,419 African American participants (mean age 49.89 years, range 18-75, 64% female). After excluding those with subjective cognitive complaints (n = 301), normative data were generated by education and overlapping ag...

BACKGROUND We examined the discriminant validity of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) and the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) in detecting multiple-domain mild cognitive impairment (md-MCI) in a Chinese sub-sample drawn from elderly population-based study. METHODS This study included Chinese participants from the Epidemiology of Dementia in Singapore (EDIS) study aged ≥ 60 years w...

INTRODUCTION Diabetes and atherosclerosis are both risk factors of cognitive deficits. Scavenger receptor CD36 is associated with increasing risk of diabetes and atherosclerosis, and may play a role in cognitive deficits. The aim of this study is to determine the correlations of plasma soluble CD36 concentrations with carotid intima-media thickness (IMT) and cognitive function in patients with ...

VANET has attracted a good deal of attention owing to its wide range of important applications. VANET is a special kind of mobile ad hoc network, in which most of the nodes are spatio-temporally volatile fast-moving vehicles. Hence, it is extremely difficult to provide resilient end-to-end communications in VANET, although it is a cornerstone for the wider deployment of VANET applications. In V...

M ore than 40% of stroke survivors are found with cog-nitive impairment (poststroke cognitive impairment [PSCI]) sometime after the event. 1 Almost two thirds of these patients are affected by mild cognitive impairment (MCI). 2 A meta-analysis showed that 10% of patients had dementia before first stroke, 10% developed dementia soon after first stroke, and more than a third had dementia after re...

Objective Post-stroke cognitive impairment often afflicts stroke survivors and is a major obstacle both for cognitive and physical rehabilitation. Stroke risk scores ["Congestive heart failure, Hypertension, Age ≥75 years, Diabetes mellitus, Stroke" (CHADS2) and "CHADS2 + creatinine clearance <60 mL/min" (R2CHADS2)] are used to assess the future risk of cardioembolic stroke in patients with atr...

BACKGROUND Cerebral infarction frequently leads to mild cognitive impairment (MCI). Prompt management of MCI can prevent vascular dementia and improve patient outcome. This single center randomized controlled trial aims to investigate the efficacy and safety of acupuncture and nimodipine to treat post-cerebral infarction MCI. METHODS A total of 126 Chinese patients with post-cerebral infarcti...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) and Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination-Revised (ACE-R) are proposed as short cognitive tests for use after stroke, but there are few published validations against a neuropsychological battery. We studied the relationship between MoCA, ACE-R, Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) and mild cognitive impairment (MCI) in patients with ...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between the cognitive impairment and NAA/Cr and Cho/Cr ratios in the proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy ((1)HMRS), and to assess the importance of (1)HMRS in the early diagnosis of cognitive impairment in patients with ischemic white matter lesions (WMLs). MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 45 patients (23 males and 22 ...

BACKGROUND Cognitive impairment is one of the core features of schizophrenia. For its evaluation, current clinical practice relies on detailed neuropsychological batteries which require trained testers and considerable amount of time to administer. Therefore, a brief and reliable screening tool for identification of overall cognitive impairment prior to a detailed comprehensive neurocognitive a...