Talk:Montreal Cognitive Assessment

Promotion of test rather than encylopedic entry
I assume this topic is worthy of inclusion but at present it reads, at least in part, like promotional literature. The inclusion of a url address where the test may be downloaded in the main body of text smacks of advertising.FiachraByrne (talk) 22:38, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
 * This test is a popular and relevant assessment tool in neuropsychology, but I agree the tone of the article and the excessive amount of references need to be addressed. I'll work on that this week. --MTHarden (talk) 16:35, 25 April 2011 (UTC)

Copyright violation
The following section is taken verbatim from Nasreddine et al., 'The Montreal Cognitive Assessment, MoCA: A Brief Screening Tool For Mild Cognitive Impairment',Journal of the American Geriatrics Society Volume 53, Issue 4,(March 2005).

"The short-term memory recall task (5 points) involves two learning trials of five nouns and delayed recall after approximately 5 minutes. Visuospatial abilities are assessed using a clock-drawing task (3 points) and a three-dimensional cube copy (1 point). Multiple aspects of executive functions are assessed using an alternation task adapted from the trail-making B task (1 point), a phonemic fluency task (1 point), and a two-item verbal abstraction task (2 points). Attention, concentration and working memory are evaluated using a sustained attention task (target detection using tapping; 1 point), a serial subtraction task (3 points), and digits forward and backward (1 point each). Language is assessed using a three-item confrontation naming task with low-familiarity animals (lion, camel, rhinoceros; 3 points), repetition of two syntactically complex sentences (2 points), and the aforementioned fluency task. Finally, orientation to time and place is evaluated (6 points)."

In fact, a lot of the article looks like a cut and paste job. FiachraByrne (talk) 22:42, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

The image is wrong
The clock is wrong. The smaller hand should be a) smaller and b) point in between 2 and 3.-- A P S  talk  19:44, 17 January 2018 (UTC)


 * No. That is not a clock, but a drawing. You can find out by trying to take the apparent clock from the screen. --JonValkenberg (talk) 06:58, 17 July 2020 (UTC)

MoCA description in NYT
The New York Times, science editor Gina Kolata, yesterday: [https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/19/health/trump-cognitive-screening-dementia.html Trump Passed a Cognitive Exam. What Does That Really Mean?] Good description of the MoCA. I haven't studied it and this article well enough to say whether it could be used to improve the article. &#8213; Mandruss  &#9742;  23:34, 20 January 2018 (UTC)

Trump Interview Quotes this Entry?
I noticed that the five nouns Trump used as an example of what he was asked in the test during an interview with Dr. Marc Siegel on Fox News from July 22, 2020 were the same as the ones used in this article and in the same order: Person, Woman, Man, Camera, T.V.

It's not a coincidence. But I can't tell which came first! JoshuaShrode (talk) 06:39, 25 July 2020 (UTC)