Farwah Aslam, Ayesha Aslam, Mohsin Zaheer, Shahid Sial, Ahsan Numan.
Comparison between Time Taken to Complete MMSE Score by Demented and Depressed patients.
Pak J Med Health Sci Jan ;12(3):1112-3.

Background: MMSE is use to evaluate demented patient. Patient is evaluated on MMSE score and time taken to complete MMSE. Normal patients take 7-8 minutes, with score equal or greater than 24. Demented patients take less time to complete MMSE. While depressed patients take more time than the demented patients. Aim: To assess the patients MMSE score and time taken to complete MMSE. To observe that depressed patients take more time then demented patients. Result: 113 subject were screened using MMSE. As a result, 81 subjects have cognitive impairment, while remaining have normal MMSE score. Alzheimer patients took 4 minutes, vascular demented took 3-5 minutes and frontotemporal demented patients took 2 min to complete MMSE respectively. Conclusion: MMSE score in pseudo demented patients were normal. Depressed patient will show both recent and past memory dysfunction. We could not conclude the observation to be any significant value in the future work up/ development for dementia.

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