On 1 Sep 99 at 10:00, janet paterson wrote: > hi all > > does anyone know how to obtain copies of: > 1. PD disease-specific Webster scale > Yes, I think I can get da links for you.... Mike Kuskowski wrote the papers......... http://james.psych.umn.edu/~mike/ you may have to e-mail him for more info.... Ken Bernstein mentions the Webster rating scale http://neuro-www2.mgh.harvard.edu/parkinsonsweb/Main/diagnosing/Rating s.html The three most popular scales are here... Hoehn & Yahr Scale; Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale; Schwab and England Activities of Daily Living... http://neurosurgery.mgh.harvard.edu/pdstages.htm an interesting article on neuro-psychiatric rating... http://www.pni.org/neuropsychiatry/chit/evaluation.html > > 2. CAMCOG neuropsychological test > http://www.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk/camdex-r/camcog.pdf www.wwilkins.com/AGS/0002-86141-97ltrs.html neuropsychological evaluation http://www.mindmenders.com/npe.htm MMSE - CAMCOG http://www.bakery.demon.co.uk/SPECIAL/02_05.html > > 3. self-report 15-item GDS-15 geriatric depression scale > Geriatric Depression Scales http://www.stanford.edu/~yesavage/GDS.html GDS-15 geriatric depression scale http://www.stanford.edu/~yesavage/GDS.english.short.html The Yiddish Version in GIF format.... http://www.stanford.edu/~yesavage/Yiddish.html > as mentioned in PMID 10459785? > > i would love to be able to set up a resource web-page > with access to all of the tests currently used to evaluate us and our pd > > janet > Janet, you will find some pretty heavy reading here.... The GDS-15 is straight forward and easy tho.... All the best............ murray [log in to unmask]