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Neuropsychology and cognitive screening

Telephone Interview for Cognitive Status.

TICS

What it measures
Telephone-administered cognitive screen; orientation, attention/working memory, immediate/delayed memory, language, praxis
Length and format
TICS ~11 items (max 41); TICS-m max 50. telephone-administered oral tasks, scored (clinician-rated/interview)
Language versions
Many incl. ES, DE, NL, IT, ZH, FR, PT, EL
Normative data
No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
Licence
mixed

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Reference
Brandt J, Spencer M, Folstein M. Neuropsychiatry Neuropsychol Behav Neurol. 1988;1:111-117. MHS publishes a manualized TICS.

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