Visuoconstructional Skills – Cube: The examiner gives the following instructions, pointing to the cube: “ Copy this drawing as accurately as you can, in the space below“.

Begin here” (points to 1) and draw a line from 1 then to A then to 2 and so on.

Alternating Trail Making: The examiner instructs the client to “ Please draw a line, going from a number to a letter in ascending order.

These items are described in detail below. The items of the MoCA examine attention and concentration, executive functions, memory, language, visuoconstructional skills, conceptual thinking, calculations, and orientation. The Montreal Cognitive Assessment was developed by Dr Nasreddine in 1996, then validated with the help of Chertkow, Phillips, Whitehead, Bergman, Collin, Cummings, and Hébert in 2004-2005.

80% of cases are also know as a “schemic stroke”, or the formation of a blood clot in a vessel supplying blood to the brain. 20% of cases are a hemorrhage in the brain caused by a rupture or leakage from a blood vessel. The measure can be used, but is not limited to patients with stroke Also called a “brain attack” and happens when brain cells die because of inadequate blood flow.

The MoCA assesses the following cognitive domains: attention and concentration, executive functions, memory, language, visuoconstructional skills, conceptual thinking, calculations, and orientation.

Thus, the MoCA is intended for clients with memory complaints who score within the normal range on the MMSE. Of the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) in distinguishing clients with mild cognitive impairment from normal elderly clients (Nasreddine et al., 2005). It was developed in response to the poor sensitivity Sensitivity refers to the probability that a diagnostic technique will detect a particular disease or condition when it does indeed exist in a patient (National Multiple Sclerosis Society). Instrument for the detection of mild cognitive impairment. The Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) was designed as a rapid screening Testing for disease in people without symptoms.

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