Recognition of early cognitive impairment in Parkinson ́s disease (PD) is important since it represents a risk factor for developing Parkinson’s disease dementia and psychosis. The MiniMental State Examination (MMSE) remains the most commonly used screening instrument for global cognition, even though it has not been specifically validated for use in PD subjects. More recently, the Montreal Cogn...

INTRODUCTION Schizophrenia (Sch) is a complex neurodevelopmental disorder associated with impairment of cognitive function as a central feature, which is confirmed by a number of studies performed on patients suffering from Sch, where clinical symptoms and social functioning of patients are consequences of neurocognitive deficits. GOAL The goal of this study was to assess the clinical usabili...

OBJECTIVES: To develop a 10-minute cognitive screening tool (Montreal Cognitive Assessment,MoCA) to assist firstline physicians in detection of mild cognitive impairment (MCI), a clinical state that often progresses to dementia. DESIGN: Validation study. SETTING: A community clinic and an academic center. PARTICIPANTS: Ninety-four patients meeting MCI clinical criteria supported by psychometric...

Carotid disease is a known risk factor for stroke and stroke is a known risk factor for cognitive impairment, but relation between carotid artery stenosis and cognitive function in asymptomatic individuals is less clear. Most patients have only minor complaints of cognitive dysfunction and assessment with usual tests is not sensitive enough. The study included 26 stroke-free patients (15 male a...

OBJECTIVE To establish the diagnostic accuracy of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) when screening externally validated cognition in Parkinson disease (PD), by comparison with a PD-focused test (Scales for Outcomes in Parkinson disease-Cognition [SCOPA-COG]) and the standardized Mini-Mental State Examination (S-MMSE) as benchmarks. METHODS A convenience sample of 114 patients with idio...

Media Over Coaxial Alliance (MoCA) is a protocol encapsulating Ethernet protocols over coaxial cabling common to interior television wiring. Previous work discussed the vulnerabilities presented by common implementations of the protocol. In this paper, these vulnerabilities are realized with the development of Raspberry MoCA, an embedded device that provides a drop-in, automated exploitation ki...

There is an error in the Background section of the manuscript. The references are swapped. Reference [2] should be [3] and vice versa. There is an error in the subsection Investigation Protocols of the section Object and Methods. The fourth sentence of the paragraph titled “Montreal cognitive assessment (MOCA) scale” is incorrect. The correct sentence is: Details on the specific MOCA are as fol...

OBJECTIVE To validate the Hong Kong version of Montreal Cognitive Assessment (HK-MoCA) in identification of mild cognitive impairment and dementia in Chinese older adults. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Cognition clinic and memory clinic of a public hospital in Hong Kong. PARTICIPANTS A total of 272 participants (dementia, n=130; mild cognitive impairment, n=93; normal controls, n=...

OBJECTIVE To examine the prevalence and effect of cognitive impairment on treatment outcomes in elderly patients undergoing arthroplasty and to describe the feasibility of cognitive tests. MATERIALS AND METHODS The participants were 52 patients with a mean age of 78 years 11 months (SD: 3.3), waiting for primary arthroplasty. We translated Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) into Finnish and...

The impact of Parkinson's disease (PD) dementia is substantial and has major functional and socioeconomic consequences. Early prediction of future cognitive impairment would help target future interventions. The Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA), the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), and fluency tests were administered to 486 patients with PD within 3.5 years of diagnosis, and the result...