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. 2023 Jan 20;10(2):314–321. doi: 10.14283/jpad.2023.11

Table 2.

Cohort Specific Assessments at Month 0 and Month 12

Cohort Patient population Assessments
EPAD (UK) Cognitively unimpaired to MCI

Clinical and cognitive data

• Spontaneous speech assessment*

• Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status (RBANS)*

• TabCat tasks:

- Favourites Recall

- Delay Recall

- Recognition

- Dot Counting

- Flanker

• 4 Mountains Test

• Virtual Reality Supermarket Trolley

Self-reported Questionnaires

• Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS)

• State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI)

• Healthy Ageing Through Internet Counselling in the Elderly (HATICE)

• Swedish National study on Aging and Care (SNAC)

• The Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index

• Lifestyle questionnaire

• Covid-19 questionnaire

• Research Experience Questionnaire

• Personality using Big Five Inventory-10 (BFI-10)

• Brain Injury Screening Questionnaire (BISQ)

• International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ)

• Social Networking Questionnaire (SNQ)

• Amsterdam Instrumental Activities of Daily Living Questionnaire (AIADLs)

Biomaterial

• SST Gold (Serum)

• EDTA Lavender (DNA)

• EDTA Lavender (Blood Count)

• EDTA Lavender (Plasma/Buffy Coat)

DESCRIBE (Germany) DELCODE (Germany) Cognitively unimpaired to MCI

Clinical and cognitive data

• Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE)

• Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer’s Disease (CERAD)

• Neuropsychological Testing (NPT) factor scores

• Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS)

• Geriatric Anxiety Inventory (GAI)

• Neuropsychiatric Inventory Questionnaire (NPI-Q)

• Alzheimer’s Disease Assessment Scale (ADAS)

• Measurement of Everyday Cognition (ECog)

• NPT long-term consolidation

Biomaterial

• CSF Biomarker (Abeta 40 & 42 and p-Tau)

• ApoE e4 Genotyp

MRI / PET

• Structural MRI

• PET scans (Amyloid +/ - status)

BioFINDER Primary Care (Sweden) Cognitively unimpaired to MCI

Clinical and cognitive data

• The Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MOCA)

• Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE)

• The 10-word list from ADAS-cog (immediate, delayed and recognition recall)

• Symbol Digit Modalities Test (SDMT)

• Animal Fluency

• Cube copying

• The clock drawing test

• Immediate and delayed recall of pictures test

• Trail Making Test A and B

• Mini-Cog

• CANTAB Paired Associate Learning (iPad)

• CANTAB Reaction Time (iPad)

• Mezurio Gallery game (smartphone)

• Mezurio Tilt Task (smartphone)

• Digital Clock Test

• Cognitive symptom questionnaire

• Amsterdam iADL scale

Biomaterial

• CSF

• Plasma

MRI / PET

• 18F-flutemetamol PET (small subset where CSF is not available)

Beta-AARC (Spain) Cognitively unimpaired to MCI

Clinical and cognitive data

• Subjective cognitive decline

• Cognitive reserve Questionaire

• Family history

• Life style habits

• Brief COPE-28

• NEO-FFI

• Attitudes regarding aging - ERA 12

• Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE)

• Memory Alteration Test (M@T)

• Free and Cued Selective Reminding Test (FCSRT)

• WMS-IV-Logical Memory

• WAIS-IV Visual Puzzles, Matrix reasoning and Coding

• Trail Making Test (TMT)

• 5 digit test

• Semantic Fluency

• Altoida digital biomarker

Biomaterial

• CSF Amyloid Status and p-tau measures

• Blood Based Biomarkers

• APOE e4 status

MRI / PET

• 3T MRI

These are assessments that are cohort specific, and are done at month 0 and month 12 in addition to what is stated in Table 1; * Audio was recorded during these tasks.