![]() If she has a PhD or a master's degree or is just generally an extremely intelligent person, then a 24 moca at the age of 63 would probably be a few points lower than I would anticipate. You say your mother is highly educated now. I have administered over 3,000 mocas and I have certainly observed that people that aren't very educated can score pretty low without having a real dementia process.Īlternatively, people that are very highly educated should score pretty good on the moca. Without seeing your mother's moca there's no way to know if that has happened, but assuming it did a 24 out of 30 is not a terrible score. But it is only great if it's administered correctly and graded correctly. Sometimes other things go well before the things they test for. She can not remember how to work certain appliances any more or remember to take her medication or eat regularly. My MIL can still keep up a fairly lucid conversation and knows who everyone is, but can not tell what day it is or read her calendar any more. Try to have her evaluated again in 6 months and I liked the other suggestion about keeping a journal. Once COVID forced her to stop teaching and taking language classes the dementia came on hard. Keep an eye out for routine changes as that brought on a rapid decline in my MIL. Those tests are heavily speech based so someone with higher level language skills can overcompensate. Your mom's decline is probably only apparent to someone who knows her. People like that are typically good at masking their cognitive dysfunction for a while. She is also highly educated and spoke a few languages. The only thing that I can think of is that the digit span and pasat were administered using a computer while the serial 7's was done by the doctor.My MIL was like this. What concerns me is how can I be so bad at the serial 7's but not the pasat and digit span. For example I have completed the pasat, ravlt, digit span and letter number sequencing all scoring well above the average particularly on digit span and pasat. Naturally this has me worried, but some other cognitive tests would suggest otherwise. According to this Moca test I am cognitively impaired considering my score would probably be around 21/22, 26 being normal. Now this got me feeling pretty embarrassed so I decided to google serial 7's etc and came across the MOCA. He also asked me to spell world backwards which I spelled incorrect. The doctor told me three words to remember and asked me to count back in 7's from 100, which I pretty much couldn't do at all (nor would I ever have been able to before this) im pretty sure I didnt get 1 correct. A few years ago I went to my doctor complaining of what I thought were memory problems. Hello everyone, throwaway for privacy reasons.To preface this I am currently 24 years old. See also the full list of Psych/Cog/Neuro subreddits. Some other subreddits you might be interested in: No bullying, brigading, doxxing, illegal content, etc. If your post is not related to the brain, this is not the community for your post. If you reference any study or if you post a link to a news article coverage of a paper, you must submit a comment with a direct link to the paper if the article you post doesn't have one.ģ. This rule doesn't apply to questions, speculative discussion that is properly caveated, or very basic neuroscience facts. Posts that assert a positive claim about the brain must include a link to a peer-reviewed or pre-print article to support that claim. but any post containing personal or health discussion may be removed at moderator discretion. This especially includes medical advice, clarification, diagnosis, and discussion of symptoms, drugs/supplements, medical procedures, etc. For more academic discussions of journal articles, /r/neuroscience is a great place.ġ. ![]() We're a bit laid back here, you're free to post anything about neuroscience as long as it doesn't break the rules. r/neuro, involving neuroscience: Discussion and news pertaining to neurobiology, cognitive studies, clinical neuroscience, the laboratory, and anything else related.
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