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Sunday, July 31, 2016

Differences in cognitive profiles between traumatic brain injury and stroke: a comparison of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment and Mini-Mental State Examination

What is your doctor going to do with this to get you cognitively back to normal?

Differences in cognitive profiles between traumatic brain injury and stroke: a comparison of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment and Mini-Mental State Examination


doi:10.1016/j.cjtee.2015.03.007
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Open Access funded by Daping Hospital and the Research Institute of Surgery of the Third Military Medical University
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Abstract

Purpose

To investigate the profiles of cognitive impairment through Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) and Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) in patients with chronic traumatic brain injury (TBI) or stroke and to evaluate the sensitivity of the two scales in patients with TBI.

Methods

In this cohort study, a total of 230 patients were evaluated, including TBI group (n=103) and stroke group (n=127). The cognitive functions of two groups were evaluated by designated specialists using Moca (Beijing version) and MMSE (Chinese version).

Results

Compared with the patients with stroke, the patients with TBI received significantly lower score in orientation subtest and recall subtest in both tests. MoCA abnormal rates in the TBI group and stroke group were 94% and 87% respectively, while MMSE abnormal rates were 70% and 57%, respectively. In the TBI group, 87% patients with normal MMSE score had abnormal MoCA score and in the stroke group, about 70% patients with normal MMSE score had abnormal MoCA score. The diagnostic consistency of two scales in the TBI group and the stroke group were 72% and 69%, respectively.

Conclusion

In our rehabilitation center, patients with TBI may have more extensive and severe cognitive impairments than patients with stroke, prominently in orientation and recall domain. In screening post-TBI cognitive impairment, MoCA tends to be more sensitive than MMSE.
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  1. Rebecca DuttonAugust 1, 2016 at 9:10 AM

    It never ceases to amaze me that some people who study cognitive impairment can't write clearly. The Results section is incoherent. After reading it several times I found no data about orientation and recall.

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