The test was chosen by the physician and is considered a good determinant for any mental decline. All the questions are on one page.
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It is also been sensitively designed so that it does “not falsely label someone who is normal as being impaired”.
The MoCA has been found to be useful to detect mild cognitive impairment in many conditions including Alzheimer’s disease, Vascular Cognitive Impairment, Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis, Huntington’s disease and head trauma.
Test instructions may be repeated once, however items listed in the memory section may not. The MoCA is used in 100 countries around the world.
The standard version of the test is "pretty good" but "not definitive" said Dr. Ronald Petersen, an Alzheimer’s disease expert at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Petersen said he could not comment specifically on the president’s cognitive health.
The test does not assess the president’s psychiatric fitness and the president did not undergo a psychiatric evaluation, according to his doctor.
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