Profiles of cognitive functioning in subjects with neurological disorders

Document Type

Article

Abstract

This report completes a four-year funded project designed to develop a data bank of Neurobehavioral Cognitive Status Examinations (NCSE) profiles of patients with neurological based disorders. Seven facilities participated in the study. Twenty categories of neurological/ psychological disorders were obtained from the NCSE profiles of 804 patients. Four categories had a sample large enough to permit inferences about the cognitive deficits related to the specific neurologic diagnosis. Including all diagnoses, the major areas of cognitive decline were auditory memory, visual memory and construction. Subjects with dementia had similar profiles but the severity varied depending upon the diagnoses of multi-infarct dementia, dementia of unknown origin or Alzheimer's disease. Profiles of cognitive functioning appear to differ among patients with different neurological/psychological disorders. The study also illustrated unique cognitive deficits that occur with different neurologic disorders, and how NCSE profiles were able to identify specific areas of cognitive deficits in population of patients with similar neurologic insults.

Medical Subject Headings

Central Nervous System Diseases (classification, diagnosis, psychology); Cognition Disorders (classification, diagnosis, psychology); Humans; Mental Status Schedule (statistics & numerical data); Nervous System Diseases (classification, diagnosis, psychology); Nursing Assessment; Psychometrics; Reproducibility of Results

Publication Date

6-1-1997

Publication Title

The Journal of neuroscience nursing : journal of the American Association of Neuroscience Nurses

ISSN

0888-0395

Volume

29

Issue

3

First Page

163

Last Page

9

PubMed ID

9220363

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

10.1097/01376517-199706000-00003

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