Brief Cognitive Assessment Tool
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 107 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5149-5534-3
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Brief Cognitive Assessment Tool (BCAT) was designed and copywrited by Dr. William Mansbach to identify patients with and without dementia, and to be sensitive to different levels of cognitive impairment. The BCAT was designed as a multi-domain cognitive screening tool that assesses orientation, verbal recall, visual recognition, visual recall, attention, abstraction, language, executive functions, and visuo-spatial processing. The BCAT, as well as the three cognitive BCAT "factors" (contextual memory, executive functions, and attention), have been shown to predict both diagnosis and functional status or Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL). The BCAT has been validated and published in the Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 2012, Vol 34(2), 183-194. An abbreviated form of the Brief Cognitive Assessment Tool (BCAT-SF) has been published in the journal Aging and Mental Health, 2012, Vol 16(8), 1065-1071. The...