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Why is Mini-Mental state examination performance correlated with estimated premorbid cognitive ability?

BACKGROUND: Tests requiring the pronunciation of irregular words are used to estimate premorbid cognitive ability in patients with clinical diagnoses, and prior cognitive ability in normal ageing. However, scores on these word-reading tests correlate with scores on the Mini-Mental State Examination...

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Autores principales: Dykiert, D., Der, G., Starr, J. M., Deary, I. J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4988266/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27377546
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0033291716001045