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AbstractINTRODUCTIONDementia assessment includes cognitive and behavioral testing with informant validation. Conventional testing is resource intensive, with uneven access. Online unsupervised assessments could reduce barriers to risk assessment. We interrogated the relationship between informant-rated behavioral changes and neuropsychological test performance in older adults in the Brain Health Registry.METHODSParticipants completed online unsupervised cognitive tests, and informants completed the Mild Behavioral Impairment Checklist via a Study Partner portal. Cognitive performance was evaluated in MBI+/- individuals, as was the association between cognitive scores and MBI symptom severity.RESULTSMean age of the 499 participants was 67, 61% of which were female. MBI+ participants had lower working memory and executive function test scores. Lower cognitive test scores associated with greater MBI burden.DISCUSSIONOur findings support the feasibility of remote, informant-reported behavioral assessment and support its validity by demonstrating a relationship to cognitive test performance using online unsupervised assessments for dementia risk assessment.RESEARCH IN CONTEXTSystematic reviewThe authors searched MEDLINE and Google Scholar for studies linking Mild Behavioral Impairment (MBI) and cognition in non-demented older adults. Most studies have utilized transformed Neuropsychiatric Inventory scores to assess MBI, and relatively few using the novel MBI-checklist (MBI-C), with the largest study using self-report. Exploration of informant reports of MBI is important due to impaired insight that may accompany neuropsychiatric symptoms.InterpretationOlder adults with online, informant reported MBI had poorer performance in memory and executive function measured using online neuropsychological testing compared to those without MBI. These findings are consistent with the current literature and suggest that the MBI-C may serve as a marker for poorer cognitive performance.Future directionsOur data support the role of online testing of cognition and behavior for risk assessment. This approach to evaluate behavior and cognition can be explored further, to determine if it is a scalable, online approach to detection of neurodegenerative disease.
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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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