Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Task (RAVLT) is a cognitive test designed to assess verbal learning and memory, including immediate memory, efficiency of learning, retroactive and proactive interference effects, and encoding versus retrieval. It consists of a number of tasks, including immediate recall and delayed recall. The number of words correctly recalled on each task is recorded.

The Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL) measures an individual's ability to carry out tasks that are important for daily living and capture functional changes. Scores for each question range from 0 (no assistance needed) to 2 (full assistance needed), and are assessed by informant interview. The scores for IADL (0-14) is the outcome, with higher scores indicating lesser ability to carry out daily living tasks

The Clinical Global Impression severity of illness (CGI-S) provides the clinician's impression of the patient's current state of mental illness. The clinician uses his or her clinical experience of this patient population to rate the severity of the patient's current mental illness on a 7-point scale ranging from 1 (normal - not at all ill) to 7 (among the most extremely ill patients).

The Clinical Global Impression - global improvement CGI-I provides the clinician's impression of the patient's improvement (or worsening). The clinician assesses the patient's condition relative to a baseline on a 7-point scale ranging from 1 (very much improved) to 7 (very much worse).

Response is defined as a 50% decrease from baseline in MADRS total score

Remission is defined as MADRS ≤10

The BASQID30 is a clinician rating scale designed to assess subjective quality of life (QoL) in patients with dementia. The BASQID contains 14 core questions, which are scored from 0 to 4, with 4 indicating a better QoL.