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Detecting dementia in just 12 minutes: the seven minute screen

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Correspondence to:
V W Henderson
Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System, and Departments of Geriatrics, Neurology, Pharmacology, and Epidemiology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA and Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia; vhenderson{at}uams.edu

Keywords: Alzheimer’s disease; mini-mental state examination; seven minute screen; dementia

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The 11 item mini-mental state examination (MMSE) was devised as a brief yet "thorough" and "practical" assessment of the cognitive mental status.¹ It is often used to screen for dementia caused by Alzheimer’s disease and to grade dementia severity. From humble origins three decades ago, the MMSE has become the benchmark against which other cognitive instruments are routinely compared. Alternatives have been proposed to correct perceived limitations of the original; among these psychometric pretenders is the seven minute neurocognitive screening battery, or seven minute screen (7MS).²

The 7MS is a rational concatenation of four tests, each sensitive to the presence of dementia (temporal orientation, cued recall, category fluency, and clock drawing).² Envisioning a role for the 7MS in clinical practice, Meulen et al compared Dutch translations of the 7MS and MMSE in large outpatient convenience samples in Amsterdam and Maastricht (this issue, pp 700–705).³ The participants, . . . [Full text of this article]