Initial Cognitive Screening

Determining if someone has cognitive impairment is difficult. People come from many different backgrounds, with varying education, baseline abilities, and acquired conditions.

Someone with perfectly normal cognition does not (by definition) have mild cognitive impairment. Therefore, under our current DNAC procedures, normal cognition would exclude someone from consideration.

Similarly, the other end of the cognitive range (severe cognitive impairment) is an exclusion from anti-amyloid therapy. However, it is unclear exactly where to draw the line for the “upper end” of cognitive deterioration that would preclude consideration for anti-amyloid therapy. More on this point, later ...

At this step, click on whether the cognitive screening suggests Normal Cognition or Abnormal Cognition to proceed to the next step.