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The British Journal of Psychiatry (1970) 117: 149-156. doi: 10.1192/bjp.117.537.149
© 1970 The Royal College of Psychiatrists
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The Validity of Some Cognitive Tests in the Diagnosis of Dementia

G. IRVING M.A., A.B.PS.S.1, R. A. ROBINSON M.B., B.Ch., B.A.O., D.P.M.2, and W. MCADAM M.D., M.R.C.P.I., D.P.M.2

1 Principal Psychologist, Department of Psychological Research, Crichton Royal, Dumfries
2 Consultant Psychiatrist, Crichton Royal, Dumfries

The validity of a number of cognitive tests in discriminating between brain-damaged and non brain-damaged elderly patients has been assessed against the criteria of psychiatric diagnoses and E.E.G. classification. The association between these criteria and test classification is shown for two separate samples of approximately consecutive admissions. Several of the measures would appear to effect this differentiation at levels high enough to warrant their clinical application.

Although the organic group was older than the functional, this does not appear to have had any significant effect on the validity of the test measures in discriminating between the diagnostic groups.

Submitted on June 23, 1969






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