INTRODUCTION: Dementia assessment includes cognitive and behavioral testing with informant validation. Conventional testing is resource intensive, with uneven access. Online unsupervised assessments could reduce barriers to risk assessment. We interrogated the relationship between informant-rated behavioral changes and neuropsychological test performance in older adults in the Brain Health Registry. METHODS: Participants completed online unsupervised cognitive tests, and informants completed the Mild Behavioral Impairment Checklist via a Study Partner portal. Cognitive performance was evaluated in MBI+/- individuals, as was the association between cognitive scores and MBI symptom severity. RESULTS: Mean age of the 499 participants was 67, 61% of which were female. MBI+ participants had lower working memory and executive function test scores. Lower cognitive test scores associated with greater MBI burden. DISCUSSION: Our findings support the feasibility of remote, informant-reported behavioral assessment and support its validity by demonstrating a relationship to cognitive test performance using online unsupervised assessments for dementia risk assessment.

Using published data and new data from mm observations, we calculate spectral indices α(12μ-25μ), α(25μ-1.1mm) and α(1.1mm-2cm) for Be stars. The index α(25μ-1.1mm), obtained for 8 stars, shows two characteristics: 1) for “normal” Be stars the index decreases from earlier types towards later types, i.e., later type Be stars tend to have shallower spectra in the IR-radio region than earlier types; 2) the index for shell stars appears to have smaller values than that for normal Be stars with same spectral types.

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