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Consortium to Establish a Registry on Alzheimer’s Disease

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The Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer’s Disease (CERAD) neuropsychological battery was designed to provide an efficient, standardized method to evaluate cognitive functioning in individuals with Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Originally employed in a large-scale longitudinal research program, tests were selected to provide coverage of the primary cognitive deficits associated with AD (e.g., memory, language, praxis, and intellectual status) and to have a range of difficulty appropriate for use through much of the course of the disease (Morris et al. 1989). Individual tests within the battery include well-known, commonly used measures such as the Mini-Mental State Exam (MMSE; Folstein et al. 1975), a 15-item modified Boston Naming Test (Kaplan et al. 1978), and an Animal Naming verbal fluency test (Isaacs and Kennie 1973). Also included are a ten-item word list memory test, with free recall (immediate and delayed) and recognition (delayed)...

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  1. Neuropsychology and Cognitive Health Program, Baycrest, Toronto, ON, USA

    Susan Vandermorris

  2. Department of Psychology, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada

    Esther Strauss

  3. Copeman Healthcare Centre, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Elisabeth M. S. Sherman

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    John DeLuca

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Vandermorris, S., Strauss, E., Sherman, E.M.S. (2018). Consortium to Establish a Registry on Alzheimer’s Disease. In: Kreutzer, J.S., DeLuca, J., Caplan, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57111-9_534

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