.... Early detection and appropriate management of MCI can slow the rate of deterioration in cognitive deficits. The current methods for early detection of MCI have not been satisfactory for some doctors in primary health care. Therefore, an easy, fast, accurate and reliable method for screening of MCI...

...Jaime Luna; Charline Leroi; Pierre-Marie Preux; Edgard Brice Ngoungou; Benoît Marin; Farid Boumediene Introduction: Neurological disorders are an important cause of disability and death worldwide. The distribution of these disorders differs significantly in developing countries. Screening...

...Weerasak Muangpaisan; Pitiporn Siritipakorn; Prasert Assantachai Introduction: Few epidemiological data of parkinsonism and Parkinson's disease (PD) exist in Southeast Asia. We aimed to develop and validate a screening tool, and investigate the prevalence of parkinsonism and PD via a community...

...Elan D. Louis; Pam Factor-Litvak Background: There are nearly no published screening instruments for essential tremor (ET). This is a remarkable fact, given its high prevalence. Here, we assess the validity of a screening questionnaire and hand-drawn spirals and also estimate the prevalence of ET...

...Elan D. Louis Background: In descriptive epidemiological studies, investigators must screen large numbers of individuals. How one best screens populations for essential tremor (ET); however, remains an open question. The collection of a standardized writing sample (e.g., a hand-drawn spiral...

...Elan D. Louis; Monika Michalec Background: The goal of this study was to assess the validity of a screening question for head tremor in essential tremor (ET). There are no published data on this topic, and the knowledge will guide future epidemiological investigations of this disorder. Methods...

...Bruce S. Schoenberg An efficient and effective strategy was designed which employs lay health workers to screen populations in developing countries for the presence of neurologic disease. Diagnoses are then confirmed by a neurologist. Data derived from such studies can be utilized to determine...

...W.A. Rocca; G. Savettieri; D.W. Anderson; F. Meneghini; F. Grigoletto; L. Morgante; A. Reggio; G. Salemi; F. Patti; R. Di Perri A door-to-door prevalence survey of epilepsy was conducted in 3 Sicilian municipalities, as of November 1, 1987. In phase 1, the screening by questionnaire of 24,496...

...F. Bermejo; R. Gabriel; S. Vega; J.M. Morales; W.A. Rocca; D.W. Anderson In 1994–1995, a screening and examination survey was conducted to ascertain the prevalence of dementia, Parkinson’s disease and stroke in two urban communities and one rural community of central Spain. We use this survey...

...Steven H. Belle; Aaron B. Mendelsohn; Eric C. Seaberg; Graham Ratcliff Screening community samples for dementia often necessitates administering a cognitive test battery by trained personnel. Because diagnostic examinations are expensive, a useful screening battery must be highly specific...

... one by one. To illustrate these disparities in understanding, examples are given from the NIH Consensus Conference on mammography screening for women aged 40–49, and from the use of science in the courtroom in adjudicating toxic tort cases. Understanding population medicine requires an appreciation...

...E.M. Basch; M.E. Cruz; D. Tapia; A. Cruz A census, uniform screening questionnaire and simple screening neurologic examination were administered door to door to the 221 residents of Paluguillo, a rural migrant community near Quito, Ecuador. This protocol was pretested to assure a high level...

...M. Gourie-Devi; G. Gururaj; P. Satishchandra; D.K. Subbakrishna A feasibility study was conducted in an urban population of 3,040 in Bangalore, South India, to understand the baseline characteristics, evaluate screening questionnaires, identify potential problems and determine the magnitude...

...Walter A. Rocca; Salvatore Bonaiuto; Andrea Lippi; Paolo Luciani; Tiziana Pistarelli; Antonio Grandinetti; Fabiano Cavarzeran; Luigi Amaducci We investigated the accuracy of the Hodkinson abbreviated mental test (AMT) as a screening instrument for dementia in an Italian population. The AMT...