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Cognitive and behavioural symptoms in ALS: why are they there and how to assess them?

Published on Jul 21, 2017758 Views

For more than a century, our understanding of ALS has been characterised by a tension between the concept of a purely motor degeneration and a growing realisation of the frequency and importance of c

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Cognitive & behavioural symptoms in ALS00:00
Samostojnost!00:41
Cognitive & Motor Symptoms in ALS: Why are they there?01:51
Is it a new topic (since C9ORF72)?02:49
The nature of the deficits03:51
Cognitive & behavioural symptoms in ALS: dementia or mild cognitive dysfunction?05:36
How frequent?05:49
The tale of two traditions06:26
Neurodegenerations as diseases of functional systems07:02
Namibia 2016 08:22
Re-thinking the motor system09:34
Cognition/behavioural symptoms in MND11:18
FTD & ALS: one, two of three diseases (2010)12:51
Why & how to assess cognition & behaviour in ALS?15:04
Cognitive screening across the world18:11
Edinburgh Cognitive Screen (ECAS)19:19
ECAS – LANGUAGE20:37
Nouns & verbs in ALS 21:25
Watanabe 1893 Journal of the Medical Society of Okayama21:54
ECAS – VERBAL FLUENCY23:28
ECAS – EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONS24:54
ECAS – SOCIAL COGNITION25:01
ECAS – MEMORY26:28
ECAS – VISUOSPATIAL FUNCTIONS (WITHOUT DRAWING)26:39
ECAS Subdomains: Frequency of Abnormal Performance (75 ALS patients)27:15
The ECAS had less ceiling effects than the ACE-III27:41
IQ predicts 23% of the variance of the total score of the ECAS vs 46% of the ACE-III 28:30
Behaviour: don’t ask, don’t hear29:16
Motor examination in dementia: current practice33:53
Summary34:20