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Table of Contents:

Acknowledgements
Introduction 1
Description of the schedule 2
THE CAMDEX-R Schedule 9
CAMDEX-R Operational diagnostic criteria 59
Guidelines for classifying dementia according to clinical severity 64
Items from CAMDEX-R for arriving at various measures of degree of cognitive impairment 65
Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) of Folstein et al. (1975) 65
Abbreviated Mental Test (AMT) of Hodkinson (1972) 65
Dementia Scale of Blessed et al. (1968) 66
Cambridge Cognitive Examination (CAMCOG-R) and subscales 66
Items from CAMDEX-R for arriving at various diagnostic criteria and diagnostic scales 67
DSM-IV (American Psychiatric Association, 1994) 67
ICD-10 (World Health Organization, 1993) 68
Dementia with Lewy bodies (McKeith et al., 1996) 70
Dementia of Frontal Type (Gregory & Hodges, 1993) 71
Frontotemporal dementia (The Lund and Manchester Groups, 1994) 71
Ischaemia Score of Hachinski et al. (1975) 72
NINCDS-ADRDA (McKhann et al., 1984) and NINDS-AIREN (Roman et al., 1993) 72
CAMDEX diagnostic scales (provisional) 73
CAMCOG: Detailed description, population data and psychometric properties 81
Abridged version of CAMDEX 1986 paper 89
References 99
App CAMDEX and CAMCOG bibliography 101