Published 15 July 2009, doi:10.1136/bmj.b2830
Cite this as: BMJ 2009;339:b2830

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TYM and Alzheimer’s disease

How specific is TYM?

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Is the test your memory (TYM) test specific in discriminating Alzheimer’s disease from other forms of dementia in clinical practice?1 Only 31 patients had "other forms of dementia and mild cognitive impairment," 16 having Lewy body dementia, 13 frontotemporal dementia, and two supranuclear palsy; none had vascular dementia.

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Antonio E Segovia, consultant psychiatrist1

1 King George V Hospital, Gibraltar

antonio.segovia@gha.gi

Competing interests: None declared.

  1. Brown J, Pengas G, Dawson K, Brown LA, Clatworthy P. Self administered cognitive screening test (TYM) for detection of Alzheimer’s disease: cross sectional study. BMJ 2009;338:b2030. (9 June.)[CrossRef]

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Self administered cognitive screening test (TYM) for detection of Alzheimer’s disease: cross sectional study
Jeremy Brown, George Pengas, Kate Dawson, Lucy A Brown, and Philip Clatworthy
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