Brooks Joseph Bruno Bidin, Borela Mariana Cossi Monseff, Fragoso Yara Dadalti
Department of Physiology, Medical School, UNIMES, MS Reference Center DRS-IV, Santos, SP, Brazil.
Arq Neuropsiquiatr. 2011 Dec;69(6):887-91. doi: 10.1590/s0004-282x2011000700007.
To assess the cognition of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) using the Rao's Brief Repeatable Battery of Neuropsychological Tests (BRB-N).
BRB-N was translated and adapted for control subjects. Subsequently, it was applied to a group of patients with relapsing-remitting (RR) MS.
The assessment on the healthy controls (n=47) showed that the correlation between tests on the same cognitive domain was high and that there was a five-factor solution that explained 90% of the total variance. Except for the Word List Generation subset of tests, the performance of patients with RRMS (n=39) was worse than that of the healthy controls.
BRB-N is a relatively simple method to assess cognition of patients with MS in the daily clinic. It does not take long to apply and does not require special skills or equipment.
使用饶氏简短可重复神经心理测验电池（BRB-N）评估多发性硬化症（MS）患者的认知情况。
将BRB-N进行翻译并适用于对照受试者。随后，将其应用于一组复发缓解型（RR）MS患者。
对健康对照者（n = 47）的评估显示，同一认知领域测试之间的相关性很高，并且存在一个解释总方差90%的五因素解决方案。除了测试中的单词列表生成子集外，RRMS患者（n = 39）的表现比健康对照者差。
BRB-N是在日常临床中评估MS患者认知的一种相对简单的方法。应用时间不长，不需要特殊技能或设备。
