Journal of the Neurological Sciences
Digital-style clock drawings may complicate cognitive testing
Digital-style patterns appeared in 45 of 560 cognitively healthy adults, prompting updated reference scores for interpreting the Clock Drawing Test.Digital-style patterns appeared in 45 of 560 cognitively healthy adults, prompting updated reference scores for interpreting the Clock Drawing Test.
Cross-sectional · 560 peopleBiomarkers
Who was studied560 cognitively healthy adults aged 18–94 years
What changedAt older ages, more frequent digital timekeeping was associated with poorer clock-drawing scores
The catchDiagnostic misclassification with the proposed score adjustments was not measured in clinical samples