Delayed Recall Flashcards
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Which set of five words is used in the standard English MoCA Delayed Recall task?
Answer: Face, Velvet, Church, Daisy, Red
The five target words in the standard MoCA are Face, Velvet, Church, Daisy, and Red.
How many times are the five words read to the patient during initial registration on the MoCA?
Answer: Twice
The examiner reads all five words twice during registration to give the patient an adequate encoding opportunity.
A patient recalls 5 words spontaneously, then receives category cues and recalls 0 additional words. What is their Delayed Recall score?
Answer: 10 points
Five words recalled spontaneously × 2 points each = 10/10, the maximum possible score.
Which neurological condition most severely impairs MoCA Delayed Recall performance due to hippocampal damage?
Answer: Alzheimer's disease
Alzheimer's disease prominently damages the hippocampus, the structure critical for forming and retrieving episodic memories, leading to severe delayed recall deficits.
If a patient recalls a word only after a category cue, how many points are awarded for that word?
Answer: 1 point
Category-cued recall earns 1 point per word, compared to 2 points for spontaneous recall.
Why is performance on MoCA Delayed Recall clinically more informative than recognition performance alone?
Answer: Spontaneous recall requires intact retrieval without external support, reflecting more severe deficits when impaired
Spontaneous free recall demands self-initiated retrieval, making impairment on this measure more diagnostically sensitive to medial temporal lobe dysfunction than recognition, which provides external support.
On the MoCA score sheet, what information beyond total Delayed Recall points should the examiner record?
Answer: Which words required a category cue and which required a multiple-choice cue
The MoCA protocol instructs examiners to mark whether each word was recalled freely, with a category cue, or with a multiple-choice cue, providing a qualitative memory profile.