Table 1.
Correspondence of MMSE and ADAS-cog subscores
| MMSE subscore (line color in POM curves) | Layman’s term for MMSE subscore | ADAS-cog 14 subscore (line color in POM curves) |
| Registrationa (green) | Forget things which have just been said | Word recall task (green) |
| Recall (cyan) | Difficulty acquiring new information | Delayed word recall (cyan) |
| Attention and concentration (orange) | Trouble maintaining attention and concentration | Number cancellation – target hits (orange) |
| Executive function – Maze test (gold) | ||
| Orientation in time (black) | Gets confused about the day of the week | Orientation (black) |
| Orientation in place (purple) | Forget where you are and how you got there | |
| Language (pink) | Trouble finding the right words | Languageb (pink) |
| Drawingc (gray) | Problems assembling objects together, completing a jigsaw | Constructional praxis (gray) |
aTests immediate memory; bSpoken language ability; cTests constructional praxis. MMSE, Mini-Mental State Examination; POM, Proportional Odds Model; ADAS-cog, cognitive subscale of the Alzheimer’s Disease Assessment Scale.