The German EXIT-25 in the assessment of neurodegenerative diseases

EXIT-25 (Royall et al. 1992) is a screening instrument for the assessment of executive cognitive dysfunction. Aim of this study was to investigate a German version of this test. We investigated whether the EXIT-25 was capable in discriminating different forms of neurodegenerative diseases and examined the correlation between the EXIT-25 and a set of traditional neuropsychological tests and analysed data of 114 patients (mean age 67 years, inpatients and outpatients at our department). Primary etiological diagnoses were Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI, 8,8%), Alzheimer's disease (9,6%), Frontotemporal Lobar Degene…