Scientific Background of the CANS-MCI
The CANS-MCI was developed to solve a problem: there were no tools available that could accurately and economically detect the cognitive changes most predictive of further abnormal decline in adults and the elderly. The most common type of decline in need of early detection was toward Alzheimer’s disease.
The CANS-MCI was designed to measure all of the cognitive domains known to be most predictive of Alzheimer’s disease (AD): immediate and delayed memory; attentional speed and flexibility; executive mental control; clock hand placement fluency; language fluency.