Subtle cognitive impairment can be difficult to detect through clinical interview or normal conversation, and the ability of clinicians to accurately estimate cognitive functioning without the use of standardised tests can be poor [ 3].
Using data from the baseline study, we estimated childhood cognitive function and change in cognition from childhood to adulthood.
In addition, 376 who answered too few questions to accurately estimate their cognitive function were also excluded, leaving 2119 (77.7%) in our analysis.
No subject was impaired on a test of single word reading, suggesting relative sparing of this ability and highlighting that test's utility as an index of estimated premorbid cognitive function in FTD/ALS.
Suitably implemented decision logics allow a continuous and optimal adjustment of the automation levels as a function of the estimated cognitive states.
In this large study of elderly men and women with type 2 diabetes, we found that higher fasting morning cortisol levels were not related to current cognitive ability but were associated with estimated cognitive change, that is, with some tests of current cognitive functioning after adjustment for estimated prior cognitive ability.
The DRS global score estimates combined cognitive functioning with the following components: attention, initiation-perseveration, construction, conceptualization, and memory domains [ 32].
To estimate gross cognitive functioning, both groups underwent brief baseline assessment with the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT; Dunn and Dunn 2007), Expressive Vocabulary Test (EVT; Williams 2007), and the Wechsler Nonverbal Scale of Ability (WNV; Wechsler and Naglieri 2006).
Activity of daily living estimated by the Barthel index and cognitive function estimated by MMSE in elderly subjects were significantly lower than those in younger subjects.
A subjective preoperative estimate of the cognitive function of the patient was made by the surgeon and graded as normal, mild, or severe cognitive disability.
