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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Alzheimers Dement. 2014 May 3;10(6):844–852. doi: 10.1016/j.jalz.2014.01.001

Table 1.

Research criteria for pre-MCI subjective cognitive decline (SCD)

  1. Self-experienced persistent decline in cognitive capacity in comparison with a previously normal status and unrelated to an acute event.

  2. Normal age-, gender-, and education-adjusted performance on standardized cognitive tests, which are used to classify mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or prodromal AD.

1 and 2 must be present
Exclusion criteria

  • Mild cognitive impairment, prodromal AD, or dementia

  • Can be explained by a psychiatric* or neurologic disease (apart from AD), medical disorder, medication, or substance use

Abbreviation: AD, Alzheimer’s disease.

*

Individual symptoms of depression or anxiety, which do not reach the threshold of a disorder, are not considered exclusion criteria.