title: The Cambridge Behavioral Inventory: validation and application in a memory clinic.
abstract: The authors examined the validity of the Cambridge Behavioral Inventory (CBI), a questionnaire investigating broad neuropsychiatric symptoms and everyday functional ability in dementia. Test-retest reliability of the CBI was acceptable. Cross-validation with the Neuropsychiatric Inventory showed good concurrent validity of the CBI. The CBI reliably demonstrated that disinhibition, stereotypic behavior, elation, anxiety, poor self-care, and changes in eating habits occurred more commonly in patients with frontotemporal lobar degeneration than those with Alzheimer's disease. The authors concluded that the CBI is a reliable informant-based assessment of neuropsychiatric symptoms and everyday functioning and may be a suitable tool for use in general clinical practice settings.
authors.affiliation: Department of Geriatric Neurology, Shiga Medical Center, 5-4-30 Moriyama, Moriyama-city, Shiga 524-8524, Japan. ynaga@pop12.odn.ne.jp.
authors.forename: Yasuhiro
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Nagahama
authors.forename: Tomoko
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Okina
authors.forename: Norio
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Suzuki
authors.forename: Minoru
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Matsuda
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000368:Aged; D000554:Ambulatory Care Facilities; D003704:Dementia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008569:Memory Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D015995:Prevalence; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013239:Stereotyped Behavior; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires