Uniform Data Set for Neuropsychological Battery and Select Informant Measures

Neuropsychological Assessment for possible Alzheimer's disease

Domain assessed                              Assessment Tools                     Substitute Tool/additional tool

Multidomain screening tool               MMSE                                     MoCa

Verbal episodic memory                   WMS R, Log mem IA imm

Delayed verbal episodic memory       WMS R, Log mem IIA delayed

Attention                                           Digit Span forward and backward

Executive function                              Trailmaking Test Part B          additional: COWAT, category fluency

Psychomotor speed                            Trailmaking Test Part A
                                                          WAIS R digit symbol                 SDMT

Language                                            Boston Naming Test (30 item)   additional: BNT (60 item)
                                                                                                           Token Test, finger naming, color
                                                                                                           naming, right-left orientation, reading
                                                                                                           writing, spelling

Functional Status                                 Clinical Dementia Rating
                                                           Functional Assessment Questionnaire

Behavioral Assessment                        Geriatric Depression Scale        Zung Depression/Anxiety Scales
                                                           Neuropsychiatric Inventory Questionnaire

Source Morris JC, Weintraub S, Chui HC et al.  The Uniform Data Set (UDS) clinical and cognitive variables and descriptive data from Alzheimer's disease centers. Alz Dis Assoc Disord 2006; 20: 210-216.
Third column represents solely my own substitutions and additions

Other useful standard tests
                                                           Caregiver Burden Index (Zarit)
                                                           Praxis: test limb and oral praxis from Behavioral Neurology Index
                                                           Nonverbal memory:  Rey O CFT, copy, immediate and delayed