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The Canadian Consensus Guidelines for Diagnosis and Treatment of Dementia for detection of Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer’s disease (Third Canadian Consensus Conference on Diagnosis and Treatment of Dementia, Alzheimer's & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer's Association October 2007 (Vol. National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke-Canadian Stroke Network vascular cognitive impairment harmonization standards. The National Institutes of Health and the Canadian Stroke Consortium for detection of vascular cognitive Impairment (Hachinski et al. The MoCA test has now been translated to 36 languages and dialects. For instance, in the Filipino version that is still being developed, Filipino translation of the English words is supplemented with changes in some of the images that locals can identify such as with the replacement of rhinoceros with an owl. Since the MoCA assesses multiple cognitive domains, it may be a useful cognitive screening tool for several neurological diseases that affect younger populations, such as traumatic brain injury, depression, and schizophrenia.īecause MoCA is english specific, linguistic and cultural translations are made in order to adapt the test in other countries. MoCA is used to detect mild cognitive impairment in: Maximum score that can be achieved on MoCA is 30, and scores above 26 are considered normal. The time taken for test can vary, it's usually can be administered in 10 minutes.
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