Géraud Dautzenberg

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Chapter 1. General Introduction	7
Section A: Unseen needs	43
Chapter 2. The Care Needs of Older Patients with Bipolar Disorder.	45
Section B: The MoCA validation in different old age settings	63
Chapter 3. Diagnostic accuracy of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) for cognitive screening in old age psychiatry: determining cutoffscores in clinical practice. Avoiding spectrum-bias caused by healthy controls.	65
Chapter 4. Clinical value of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) in patients suspected of cognitive impairment in old age psychiatry. Using the MoCA for triaging to a memory clinic.	85
Section C: The MoCA in clinical practice	109
Chapter 5. The Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) with a double threshold: improving the MoCA for triaging patients in need of a neuropsychological assessment.	110
Chapter 6. Severe cognitive impairment associated with a high free, but therapeutic total concentration of valproic acid due to hypoalbuminemia in an older patient with bipolar disorder.	137
Chapter 7. Summary of the main findings and general discusion.	151
Chapter 8. Appendix	195
Nederlandse samenvatting	196
Conversie Tabel voor ernst cognitieve stoornissen	200
List of publications	202
Acknowledgements	204
About the author	213

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