Assessment of cognition using the Rao's Brief Repeatable Battery of Neuropsychological Tests on a group of Brazilian patients with multiple sclerosis

Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria

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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