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Consortium to Establish a Registry on Alzheimer's Disease

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Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology

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CERAD

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The Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer’s Disease (CERAD) neuropsychological battery was designed to provide an efficient, standardized method to evaluate cognitive functioning in individuals with Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Originally employed in a large-scale longitudinal research program, tests were selected to provide coverage of the primary cognitive deficits associated with AD (e.g., memory, language, praxis, and intellectual status) and to have a range of difficulty appropriate for use through much of the course of the disease (Morris et al., 1989). Individual tests within the battery include well-known, commonly used measures such as the Mini-Mental State Exam (MMSE; Folstein, Folstein, & McHugh, 1975), a 15-item modified Boston Naming Test (Kaplan, Goodglass, & Weintraub, 1978), and an Animal Naming verbal fluency test (Isaacs & Kennie, 1973). Also included are a ten-item word list memory test, with free recall (immediate and delayed) and...

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  1. University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada

    Susan Vanderhill

  2. Department of Psychology, University of Victoria, 3050, V8W 3P5, Victoria, BC, Canada

    Esther Strauss

  3. Alberta Children's Hospital, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Elisabeth M. S. Sherman

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  1. Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and Professor of Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry Virginia Commonwealth University – Medical Center Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, VCU, 980542, Richmond, Virginia, 23298-0542, USA

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  3. Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and Neurology and Neuroscience, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey – New Jersey Medical School, New Jersey, USA

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Vanderhill, S., Strauss, E., Sherman, E.M.S. (2011). Consortium to Establish a Registry on Alzheimer's Disease. In: Kreutzer, J.S., DeLuca, J., Caplan, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-79948-3_534

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