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| == History and Symptoms == | | ==History and Symptoms== |
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| * Thorough history needs to be performed to rule out any underlying disease etiology.
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| One minute screening tests, such as the inability to name 15 or more animals in one minute, predicts the presence of dementia.<ref name="pmid14981170">{{cite journal| author=Canning SJ, Leach L, Stuss D, Ngo L, Black SE| title=Diagnostic utility of abbreviated fluency measures in Alzheimer disease and vascular dementia. | journal=Neurology | year= 2004 | volume= 62 | issue= 4 | pages= 556-62 | pmid=14981170 | doi= | pmc= | url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=14981170 }} </ref>
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| The single best finding may be disoriented to year.<ref name="pmid20852313">{{cite journal| author=O'Keeffe E, Mukhtar O, O'Keeffe ST| title=Orientation to time as a guide to the presence and severity of cognitive impairment in older hospital patients. | journal=J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry | year= 2011 | volume= 82 | issue= 5 | pages= 500-4 | pmid=20852313 | doi=10.1136/jnnp.2010.214817 | pmc= | url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=20852313 }} </ref>
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| A [[meta-analysis]] found that the [http://www.alz.org/documents_custom/minicog.pdf Mini-Cog test] compares will to other methods to detect dementia.<ref name="pmid26052687">{{cite journal| author=Tsoi KK, Chan JY, Hirai HW, Wong SY, Kwok TC| title=Cognitive Tests to Detect Dementia: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. | journal=JAMA Intern Med | year= 2015 | volume= | issue= | pages= | pmid=26052687 | doi=10.1001/jamainternmed.2015.2152 | pmc= | url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=26052687 }} </ref>
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| ==References== | | ==References== |
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