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General Measures of Cognition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 January 2005

Steven H. Ferris
Steven H. Ferris
Affiliation:
Silberstein Institute for Aging and Dementia, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, US
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Abstract

A general cognitive performance battery is needed as a primary outcome in vascular dementia clinical trials. Because there is considerable overlap between vascular dementia and Alzheimer's disease (AD) in the pattern of cognitive impairment, a reasonable approach to developing an optimal vascular dementia battery is to begin with a widely used AD measure and improve its sensitivity to the cognitive domains that are more prominent in vascular dementia. Thus the VaDAS-cog has evolved, which comprises the ADAS-cog with additional frontal lobe subtests covering attention, working memory, executive function, and verbal fluency. Validation of this new cognitive instrument will be supported by its successful use in vascular dementia clinical trials.

Keywords

Vascular dementiacognitive assessmentclinical trials
Type
TRIAL DESIGNS: SYMPTOMATIC
Information
International Psychogeriatrics , Volume 15 , Issue S1 , July 2003 , pp. 215 - 217
Copyright
© 2003 International Psychogeriatric Association

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