To determine cognitive and behavioral changes of patients suffering from Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, the Edinburgh Cognitive and Behavioural ALS
Screen (ECAS) was developed by Abrahams and Thomas Bak in 2013. With ECAS, ALS-specific and ALS-nonspecific functions can be analyzed to enable the distinction from other diseases with cognitive and behavioral impairments.
The German version of ECAS is available since 2014 (Lulé et al., 2014).
