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Ziad Nasreddine is a Canadian neurologist notable for creating the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) in 2005, widely used to assess mild cognitive impairment.

Biography

Dr. Nasreddine is a Lebanese-Canadian physician, who graduated with a Medical Degree from the Université de Sherbrooke, Québec, and then completed a fellowship in Cognitive Neurology/Neurobehaviour at UCLA. In 1992, during his residency program, Dr Nasreddine perceived the need for a more comprehensive cognitive screening adapted for clinicians, and thus developed his first comprehensive cognitive screening test. In 1996, after his fellowship, he decided to adapt his comprehensive screen and create a much quicker comprehensive assessment that is adapted to first-line specialty clinics with a high volume of patients. In 2005, the MoCA test was validated for clinical use. It is since widely used across the world in a variety of settings as this test is easy to administer in about 10 minutes and has been translated into many languages and validated to be accurate. The MoCA is recommended by the Alzheimer Society to objectively assess cognitive complaints in a clinical setting.

References

1. "About MoCA".
2. ^ Nasreddine, Ziad S.; Phillips, Natalie A.; Bédirian, Valérie; Charbonneau, Simon; Whitehead, Victor; Collin, Isabelle; Cummings, Jeffrey L.; Chertkow, Howard (April 2005). "The Montreal Cognitive Assessment, MoCA: a brief screening tool for mild cognitive impairment". Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 53 (4): 695–699. doi:10.1111/j.1532-5415.2005.53221.x. ISSN 0002-8614. PMID 15817019. S2CID 9014589.
3. Hawkins, Derek (January 17, 2018). "Trump's cognitive test was created by a Lebanese immigrant to Canada". Washington Post.
4. "Canadian doctor behind cognitive test says Trump's score is 'normal performance'". CTVNews. July 23, 2020.
5. Dautzenberg, Géraud; Lijmer, Jeroen; Beekman, Aartjan (December 27, 2019). "Diagnostic accuracy of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) for cognitive screening in old age psychiatry: Determining cutoff scores in clinical practice. Avoiding spectrum bias caused by healthy controls". International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. 35 (3): 261–269. doi:10.1002/gps.5227. ISSN 0885-6230. PMC 7028034. PMID 31650623.

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