Describe score distributions for Normal, MCI, and specific dementia diagnoses. 
  
   Lead Investigator:    Sandra Weintraub
   Institution      :    Northwestern
   E-Mail           :    sweintraub@northwestern.edu
   Proposal ID      :    2


   Publications:


1  Weintraub S, Salmon D,  Mercaldo N , Ferris S, Graff-Radford NR, Chui H, Cummings J, DeCarli C, Foster NL, Galasko D, Peskind E,  Dietrich W, Beekly DL, Kukull WA , Morris JC
   The Alzheimer's Disease Centers' Uniform Data Set (UDS): the neuropsychologic test battery
   Journal Article  Alzheimer Dis Assoc Disord,23:91-101,2009,PMC2743984

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   Proposal Description:
   The Uniform Data Set (UDS) consists of a detailed survey of demographics,  history, and clinical and neuropsychological variables developed by a special  task force to the National Institute on Aging (NIA). The UDS was designed to  standardize methods of assessing and diagnosing dementia across all NIAfunded  Alzheimer???s Disease Centers in the US. The development and  preliminary description of the UDS are presented in detail elsewhere (Morris et  al, in press). This paper describes the neuropsychological battery developed to  assess memory, executive functions, attention and language, and presents test  scores from cognitively healthy individuals recruited by the 29 participating  centers. Since September 2005, the UDS has been collected on a total of xxxx  cognitively healthy individuals, xxxx patients with mild cognitive impairment, and  xxx individuals with dementia. Mean scores and standard deviations are  reported by age group (Under 59, 60-69, 70-79, 80-89 and 90 and over) and two  levels of education (High school, Beyond High school.) These results represent  performance on tests sensitive to aging and to the early stages of Alzheimer???s  disease in a relatively well-educated sample of healthy men and women  volunteering for research at academic centers.  History of the UDS and development of the neuropsychological batt