UK Researcher, Others Highlight Need to Improve Alzheimer's and Dementia Cognitive Screenings and Assessments
A researcher at the University of Kentucky’s Sanders-Brown Center on Aging is one of several experts in the field who recently discussed the use of two popular screening tests for dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. Frederick A. Schmitt, Ph.D. Professor of Neurology & Psychiatry at UK says he and the others involved with the publication believe that “Reliance on these crude paper & pencil tests has hampered advances in treatment and prevention of Alzheimer’s disease.”
Source: uky.edu