Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria | |
Assessment of cognition using the Rao's Brief Repeatable Battery of Neuropsychological Tests on a group of Brazilian patients with multiple sclerosis | |
Joseph Bruno Bidin Brooks1  Mariana Cossi Monseff Borela2  Yara Dadalti Fragoso2  | |
[1] ,UNIMES Medical School Departments of Physiology and NeurologySantos SP ,Brazil | |
关键词: multiple sclerosis; cognition; memory; neuropsychology; esclerose múltipla; cognição; memória; neuropsicologia; | |
DOI : 10.1590/S0004-282X2011000700007 | |
来源: SciELO | |
【 摘 要 】
To assess the cognition of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) using the Rao's Brief Repeatable Battery of Neuropsychological Tests (BRB-N). METHOD: BRB-N was translated and adapted for control subjects. Subsequently, it was applied to a group of patients with relapsing-remitting (RR) MS. RESULTS: The assessment on the healthy controls (n=47) showed that the correlation between tests on the same cognitive domain was high and that there was a five-factor solution that explained 90% of the total variance. Except for the Word List Generation subset of tests, the performance of patients with RRMS (n=39) was worse than that of the healthy controls. CONCLUSION: BRB-N is a relatively simple method to assess cognition of patients with MS in the daily clinic. It does not take long to apply and does not require special skills or equipment.
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