Abstract
The Edinburgh Cognitive and Behavioural ALS Screen (ECAS) has been developed to assess cognition and behaviour in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Cognitive impairments of ALS-specific and ALS-non-specific functions can be determined using cut-off scores based on performance of healthy subjects. However, detailed analyses show that older healthy subjects perform worse than younger ones, whereas highly-educated individuals perform better than those with lower education levels. As a consequence, this study presents new age and education matched cut-off scores for the revised German/Swiss-German version of the ECAS based on the performance of 86 healthy subjects.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1-3 |
Journal | Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Frontotemporal Degeneration |
Early online date | 30 Mar 2016 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | E-pub ahead of print - 30 Mar 2016 |
Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)
- ECAS
- cut-off
- cognition
- amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
- validation
- German
- stratified
- executive