Test Your Memory (TYM) and Test Your Memory for Mild Cognitive Impairment (TYM-MCI): A Review and Update Including Results of Using the TYM Test in a General Neurology Clinic and Using a Telephone Version of the TYM Test
Publication: Diagnostics
Jeremy M. Brown, Julie Wiggins, Kate Dawson, Timothy Rittman, James B. Rowe
12 August 2019
This research paper summarises the current status of two novel short cognitive tests (SCT), known as Test Your Memory (TYM) and Test Your Memory for Mild Cognitive Impairment (TYM-MCI). The history of and recent research on the TYM and TYM-MCI are summarised in applications for Alzheimer’s and non-Alzheimer’s dementia and mild cognitive impairment.
In this NIHR Cambridge-BRC funded research, the researchers found out that the TYM test can be used in a general neurology clinic and can help distinguish patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) from those with no neurological cause for their memory complaints. An adapted tele-TYM test administered by telephone to patients produces scores which correlate strongly with the clinic-administered Addenbrooke’s Cognitive Examination revised (ACE-R) test and can identify patients with dementia.
This is important because the team showed that patients with AD decline on the TYM test at a rate of 3.6–4.1 points/year.
