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| Test | Description |
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| Mini-mental test (MMSE) | It is a brief cognitive tracking test; it evaluates cognitive functions; it is composed of 30 sections and grouped into five dimensions: orientation (10 points), fixation (3 points), orientation (5 points), calculation and memory (3 points), language (8 points), and visuoconstructive skills (1 point) |
| Dementia rating scale (DRS-2) | It is a scale that aims to assess general cognitive aspects. It is an instrument with high validity for detecting clinical pictures of dementia. It has a total score of 144 points, grouped into 5 subsections: attention (37 points); initiative/perseveration (37 points); construction (6 points); conceptualization (39 points); memory (25 points) |
| Digit retention | Weschler scale digit retention: It is a subtest of the WAIS-IV that aims to measure the levels of attention and immediate verbal memory |
| Trail making test (TMT) | TMT-A: It is a paper and pencil test that aims to measure the levels of attention. The patient must complete the test in the shortest possible time. |
| TMT-B: The subjects must match numbers from 1 to 25 consecutively, and executive functions which consists of matching numbers from 1 to 13, but alternating with letters (1A-2B-3C-4D-5D and so on consecutively). The patient must complete the test in the shortest possible time. |
| Babcock’s story recall test | It aims to assess verbal and delayed memory. The test is presented by the auditory pathway. Rey’s complex figure. |
| Rey complex figure | It is a screening test or brief cognitive tracking; its objective is to evaluate cognitive functions in patients with neurological or neurodegenerative diseases. It is a test that aims to assess visuospatial memory and visuomotor ability. |
| The clock-drawing test | It is a screening test or brief cognitive tracking; its objective is to evaluate cognitive functions in patients with neurological or neurodegenerative diseases. It is a test that aims to assess visuospatial memory and visuomotor ability. |
| Memory test | It is a test that aims to assess immediate and delayed verbal memory. A series of words is read to the patient; then, he must verbalize them. After a while, the patient is asked to remember the list of words. |
| Brief frontal assessment battery (FAB) | It is a specific test that measures executive functioning and cognitive deficits or low performance in older adults or those diagnosed with a neurodegenerative disease. |
| Verbal fluency | The patient presented with a task where he has to name animals and common names in one minute. Furthermore, it can also be performed alternately, when the subject must name a word, alternating it with a category required by the evaluator. The score is obtained by the sum of the correct answers. |
| Barthel index | It is a questionnaire that aims to evaluate and assess the level of functional independence of the patients, during basic activities of daily living. |
| Lawton and Brody | It is a questionnaire that assesses the level of functional independence of the subjects to perform instrumental activities of daily living. |
| Health self-perception questionnaire (GHQ-28) | It is a questionnaire that evaluates health and self-perception of health in subjects with different clinical conditions. The questionnaire is grouped into four sections of seven items (somatic symptoms, anxiety/insomnia, social dysfunction, and depression). A score greater than or equal to 23 points is a possible indicator of a psychiatric condition. |
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