Global Examination of Mental State: An open tool for the brief evaluation of cognition.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The aim of this paper is to present a freely accessible new instrument for the evaluation of cognition: the Global Examination of Mental State (GEMS).

Methods

It is made up of 11 items tapping into a range of skills, such as Orientation in time and space, Memory, Working memory, Visuo-spatial, Visuo-constructional and Planning abilities, Perceptual and visual Attention, Language (Naming, Comprehension, and Verbal fluency), and Pragmatics.

Results

The psychometric strengths of this screening are: (1) extensive and updated normative data on the adult Italian population (from 18 to 100 years old); (2) absence of ceiling effect in healthy individuals, which allows to better detect interindividual variability; (3) comparison of the global scores with normative d

SUBMITTER: Mondini S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9392517 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature