Tests designed to assess neurological function associated with certain behaviors. They are used in diagnosing brain dysfunction or damage and central nervous system disorders or injury.
Disturbances in mental processes related to learning, thinking, reasoning, and judgment.
Intellectual or mental process whereby an organism obtains knowledge.
A branch of psychology which investigates the correlation between experience or behavior and the basic neurophysiological processes. The term neuropsychology stresses the dominant role of the nervous system. It is a more narrowly defined field than physiological psychology or psychophysiology.
A set of cognitive functions that controls complex, goal-directed thought and behavior. Executive function involves multiple domains, such as CONCEPT FORMATION, goal management, cognitive flexibility, INHIBITION control, and WORKING MEMORY. Impaired executive function is seen in a range of disorders, e.g., SCHIZOPHRENIA; and ADHD.
Complex mental function having four distinct phases: (1) memorizing or learning, (2) retention, (3) recall, and (4) recognition. Clinically, it is usually subdivided into immediate, recent, and remote memory.
Tests designed to measure intellectual functioning in children and adults.
Disturbances in registering an impression, in the retention of an acquired impression, or in the recall of an impression. Memory impairments are associated with DEMENTIA; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; ENCEPHALITIS; ALCOHOLISM (see also ALCOHOL AMNESTIC DISORDER); SCHIZOPHRENIA; and other conditions.
Learning to respond verbally to a verbal stimulus cue.
A nonspecific term used to describe transient alterations or loss of consciousness following closed head injuries. The duration of UNCONSCIOUSNESS generally lasts a few seconds, but may persist for several hours. Concussions may be classified as mild, intermediate, and severe. Prolonged periods of unconsciousness (often defined as greater than 6 hours in duration) may be referred to as post-traumatic coma (COMA, POST-HEAD INJURY). (From Rowland, Merritt's Textbook of Neurology, 9th ed, p418)
Focusing on certain aspects of current experience to the exclusion of others. It is the act of heeding or taking notice or concentrating.
The ability to learn and to deal with new situations and to deal effectively with tasks involving abstractions.
Simulation of symptoms of illness or injury with intent to deceive in order to obtain a goal, e.g., a claim of physical illness to avoid jury duty.
The coordination of a sensory or ideational (cognitive) process and a motor activity.
Standardized tests that measure the present general ability or aptitude for intellectual performance.
An acquired organic mental disorder with loss of intellectual abilities of sufficient severity to interfere with social or occupational functioning. The dysfunction is multifaceted and involves memory, behavior, personality, judgment, attention, spatial relations, language, abstract thought, and other executive functions. The intellectual decline is usually progressive, and initially spares the level of consciousness.
A prodromal phase of cognitive decline that may precede the emergence of ALZHEIMER DISEASE and other dementias. It may include impairment of cognition, such as impairments in language, visuospatial awareness, ATTENTION and MEMORY.
Conceptual functions or thinking in all its forms.
Non-invasive method of demonstrating internal anatomy based on the principle that atomic nuclei in a strong magnetic field absorb pulses of radiofrequency energy and emit them as radiowaves which can be reconstructed into computerized images. The concept includes proton spin tomographic techniques.
Standardized clinical interview used to assess current psychopathology by scaling patient responses to the questions.
Cognitive disorders including delirium, dementia, and other cognitive disorders. These may be the result of substance use, trauma, or other causes.
The subject's ability to connect 25 numbered and lettered circles in sequence in a specific length of time. A score of 12 or below is suggestive of organic brain damage.
Includes both producing and responding to words, either written or spoken.
A degenerative disease of the BRAIN characterized by the insidious onset of DEMENTIA. Impairment of MEMORY, judgment, attention span, and problem solving skills are followed by severe APRAXIAS and a global loss of cognitive abilities. The condition primarily occurs after age 60, and is marked pathologically by severe cortical atrophy and the triad of SENILE PLAQUES; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLES; and NEUROPIL THREADS. (From Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, pp1049-57)
A learning situation involving more than one alternative from which a selection is made in order to attain a specific goal.
Pathologic partial or complete loss of the ability to recall past experiences (AMNESIA, RETROGRADE) or to form new memories (AMNESIA, ANTEROGRADE). This condition may be of organic or psychologic origin. Organic forms of amnesia are usually associated with dysfunction of the DIENCEPHALON or HIPPOCAMPUS. (From Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, pp426-7)
Study of mental processes and behavior of schizophrenics.
The part of CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM that is contained within the skull (CRANIUM). Arising from the NEURAL TUBE, the embryonic brain is comprised of three major parts including PROSENCEPHALON (the forebrain); MESENCEPHALON (the midbrain); and RHOMBENCEPHALON (the hindbrain). The developed brain consists of CEREBRUM; CEREBELLUM; and other structures in the BRAIN STEM.
Decrease in the size of a cell, tissue, organ, or multiple organs, associated with a variety of pathological conditions such as abnormal cellular changes, ischemia, malnutrition, or hormonal changes.
Standardized procedures utilizing rating scales or interview schedules carried out by health personnel for evaluating the degree of mental illness.
Assessment of psychological variables by the application of mathematical procedures.
Remembrance of information for a few seconds to hours.
A severe emotional disorder of psychotic depth characteristically marked by a retreat from reality with delusion formation, HALLUCINATIONS, emotional disharmony, and regressive behavior.
A condition characterized by long-standing brain dysfunction or damage, usually of three months duration or longer. Potential etiologies include BRAIN INFARCTION; certain NEURODEGENERATIVE DISORDERS; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; ANOXIA, BRAIN; ENCEPHALITIS; certain NEUROTOXICITY SYNDROMES; metabolic disorders (see BRAIN DISEASES, METABOLIC); and other conditions.
A neurologic condition associated with the ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME and characterized by impaired concentration and memory, slowness of hand movements, ATAXIA, incontinence, apathy, and gait difficulties associated with HIV-1 viral infection of the central nervous system. Pathologic examination of the brain reveals white matter rarefaction, perivascular infiltrates of lymphocytes, foamy macrophages, and multinucleated giant cells. (From Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, pp760-1; N Engl J Med, 1995 Apr 6;332(14):934-40)
A statistical technique that isolates and assesses the contributions of categorical independent variables to variation in the mean of a continuous dependent variable.
The part of the cerebral hemisphere anterior to the central sulcus, and anterior and superior to the lateral sulcus.
Acute and chronic (see also BRAIN INJURIES, CHRONIC) injuries to the brain, including the cerebral hemispheres, CEREBELLUM, and BRAIN STEM. Clinical manifestations depend on the nature of injury. Diffuse trauma to the brain is frequently associated with DIFFUSE AXONAL INJURY or COMA, POST-TRAUMATIC. Localized injuries may be associated with NEUROBEHAVIORAL MANIFESTATIONS; HEMIPARESIS, or other focal neurologic deficits.
Lists of words to which individuals are asked to respond ascertaining the conceptual meaning held by the individual.
A verbal or nonverbal means of communicating ideas or feelings.
Conditions characterized by deficiencies of comprehension or expression of written and spoken forms of language. These include acquired and developmental disorders.
Application of computer programs designed to assist the physician in solving a diagnostic problem.
Levels within a diagnostic group which are established by various measurement criteria applied to the seriousness of a patient's disorder.
An autosomal dominant inherited partial epilepsy syndrome with onset between age 3 and 13 years. Seizures are characterized by PARESTHESIA and tonic or clonic activity of the lower face associated with drooling and dysarthria. In most cases, affected children are neurologically and developmentally normal. (From Epilepsia 1998 39;Suppl 4:S32-S41)
Dominance of one cerebral hemisphere over the other in cerebral functions.
The statistical reproducibility of measurements (often in a clinical context), including the testing of instrumentation or techniques to obtain reproducible results. The concept includes reproducibility of physiological measurements, which may be used to develop rules to assess probability or prognosis, or response to a stimulus; reproducibility of occurrence of a condition; and reproducibility of experimental results.
Studies in which variables relating to an individual or group of individuals are assessed over a period of time.
The process whereby a representation of past experience is elicited.
An imprecise term referring to dementia associated with CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS, including CEREBRAL INFARCTION (single or multiple), and conditions associated with chronic BRAIN ISCHEMIA. Diffuse, cortical, and subcortical subtypes have been described. (From Gerontol Geriatr 1998 Feb;31(1):36-44)
A state of internal activity of an organism that is a necessary condition before a given stimulus will elicit a class of responses; e.g., a certain level of hunger (drive) must be present before food will elicit an eating response.
Studies which start with the identification of persons with a disease of interest and a control (comparison, referent) group without the disease. The relationship of an attribute to the disease is examined by comparing diseased and non-diseased persons with regard to the frequency or levels of the attribute in each group.
Lower lateral part of the cerebral hemisphere responsible for auditory, olfactory, and semantic processing. It is located inferior to the lateral fissure and anterior to the OCCIPITAL LOBE.
The time from the onset of a stimulus until a response is observed.
Assessment of sensory and motor responses and reflexes that is used to determine impairment of the nervous system.
Conditions characterized by a significant discrepancy between an individual's perceived level of intellect and their ability to acquire new language and other cognitive skills. These disorders may result from organic or psychological conditions. Relatively common subtypes include DYSLEXIA, DYSCALCULIA, and DYSGRAPHIA.
Pathologic conditions affecting the BRAIN, which is composed of the intracranial components of the CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM. This includes (but is not limited to) the CEREBRAL CORTEX; intracranial white matter; BASAL GANGLIA; THALAMUS; HYPOTHALAMUS; BRAIN STEM; and CEREBELLUM.
Performance of complex motor acts.
The gradual irreversible changes in structure and function of an organism that occur as a result of the passage of time.
Educational attainment or level of education of individuals.
In screening and diagnostic tests, the probability that a person with a positive test is a true positive (i.e., has the disease), is referred to as the predictive value of a positive test; whereas, the predictive value of a negative test is the probability that the person with a negative test does not have the disease. Predictive value is related to the sensitivity and specificity of the test.
The range or frequency distribution of a measurement in a population (of organisms, organs or things) that has not been selected for the presence of disease or abnormality.
A series of tests designed to assess neuropsychological function. The battery is used to diagnose specific cerebral dysfunction and also to determine lateralization.
Abnormalities of motor function that are associated with organic and non-organic cognitive disorders.
Tests designed to assess language behavior and abilities. They include tests of vocabulary, comprehension, grammar and functional use of language, e.g., Development Sentence Scoring, Receptive-Expressive Emergent Language Scale, Parsons Language Sample, Utah Test of Language Development, Michigan Language Inventory and Verbal Language Development Scale, Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities, Northwestern Syntax Screening Test, Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, Ammons Full-Range Picture Vocabulary Test, and Assessment of Children's Language Comprehension.
The detailed examination of observable activity or behavior associated with the execution or completion of a required function or unit of work.
The organic and psychogenic disturbances observed after closed head injuries (HEAD INJURIES, CLOSED). Post-concussion syndrome includes subjective physical complaints (i.e. headache, dizziness), cognitive, emotional, and behavioral changes. These disturbances can be chronic, permanent, or late emerging.
The science and art of collecting, summarizing, and analyzing data that are subject to random variation. The term is also applied to the data themselves and to the summarization of the data.
A localization-related (focal) form of epilepsy characterized by recurrent seizures that arise from foci within the temporal lobe, most commonly from its mesial aspect. A wide variety of psychic phenomena may be associated, including illusions, hallucinations, dyscognitive states, and affective experiences. The majority of complex partial seizures (see EPILEPSY, COMPLEX PARTIAL) originate from the temporal lobes. Temporal lobe seizures may be classified by etiology as cryptogenic, familial, or symptomatic (i.e., related to an identified disease process or lesion). (From Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, p321)
Studies in which individuals or populations are followed to assess the outcome of exposures, procedures, or effects of a characteristic, e.g., occurrence of disease.
A late-appearing component of the event-related potential. P300 stands for a positive deflection in the event-related voltage potential at 300 millisecond poststimulus. Its amplitude increases with unpredictable, unlikely, or highly significant stimuli and thereby constitutes an index of mental activity. (From Campbell, Psychiatric Dictionary, 6th ed)
The awareness of the spatial properties of objects; includes physical space.
Recording of electric currents developed in the brain by means of electrodes applied to the scalp, to the surface of the brain, or placed within the substance of the brain.
The feeling-tone accompaniment of an idea or mental representation. It is the most direct psychic derivative of instinct and the psychic representative of the various bodily changes by means of which instincts manifest themselves.
Performance of an act one or more times, with a view to its fixation or improvement; any performance of an act or behavior that leads to learning.
Treatment of chronic, severe and intractable psychiatric disorders by surgical removal or interruption of certain areas or pathways in the brain, especially in the prefrontal lobes.
Studies in which subsets of a defined population are identified. These groups may or may not be exposed to factors hypothesized to influence the probability of the occurrence of a particular disease or other outcome. Cohorts are defined populations which, as a whole, are followed in an attempt to determine distinguishing subgroup characteristics.
A progressive, degenerative neurologic disease characterized by a TREMOR that is maximal at rest, retropulsion (i.e. a tendency to fall backwards), rigidity, stooped posture, slowness of voluntary movements, and a masklike facial expression. Pathologic features include loss of melanin containing neurons in the substantia nigra and other pigmented nuclei of the brainstem. LEWY BODIES are present in the substantia nigra and locus coeruleus but may also be found in a related condition (LEWY BODY DISEASE, DIFFUSE) characterized by dementia in combination with varying degrees of parkinsonism. (Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, p1059, pp1067-75)
Evaluation of the level of physical, physiological, or mental functioning in the older population group.
Disorders in which there is a loss of ego boundaries or a gross impairment in reality testing with delusions or prominent hallucinations. (From DSM-IV, 1994)
Observation of a population for a sufficient number of persons over a sufficient number of years to generate incidence or mortality rates subsequent to the selection of the study group.
Procedures for finding the mathematical function which best describes the relationship between a dependent variable and one or more independent variables. In linear regression (see LINEAR MODELS) the relationship is constrained to be a straight line and LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS is used to determine the best fit. In logistic regression (see LOGISTIC MODELS) the dependent variable is qualitative rather than continuously variable and LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS are used to find the best relationship. In multiple regression, the dependent variable is considered to depend on more than a single independent variable.
Cognitive disorders characterized by an impaired ability to perceive the nature of objects or concepts through use of the sense organs. These include spatial neglect syndromes, where an individual does not attend to visual, auditory, or sensory stimuli presented from one side of the body.
Diseases of the central and peripheral nervous system. This includes disorders of the brain, spinal cord, cranial nerves, peripheral nerves, nerve roots, autonomic nervous system, neuromuscular junction, and muscle.
The ability to speak, read, or write several languages or many languages with some facility. Bilingualism is the most common form. (From Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed)
A major and the second most common isoform of apolipoprotein E. In humans, Apo E4 differs from APOLIPOPROTEIN E3 at only one residue 112 (cysteine is replaced by arginine), and exhibits a lower resistance to denaturation and greater propensity to form folded intermediates. Apo E4 is a risk factor for ALZHEIMER DISEASE and CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES.
Imaging techniques used to colocalize sites of brain functions or physiological activity with brain structures.
The selecting and organizing of visual stimuli based on the individual's past experience.
Relatively permanent change in behavior that is the result of past experience or practice. The concept includes the acquisition of knowledge.
Injuries incurred during participation in competitive or non-competitive sports.
Behavioral manifestations of cerebral dominance in which there is preferential use and superior functioning of either the left or the right side, as in the preferred use of the right hand or right foot.
Readiness to think or respond in a predetermined way when confronted with a problem or stimulus situation.
The effect of environmental or physiological factors on the driver and driving ability. Included are driving fatigue, and the effect of drugs, disease, and physical disabilities on driving.
Studies in which the presence or absence of disease or other health-related variables are determined in each member of the study population or in a representative sample at one particular time. This contrasts with LONGITUDINAL STUDIES which are followed over a period of time.
An amino acid that occurs in vertebrate tissues and in urine. In muscle tissue, creatine generally occurs as phosphocreatine. Creatine is excreted as CREATININE in the urine.
The performance of the basic activities of self care, such as dressing, ambulation, or eating.
A set of statistical methods for analyzing the correlations among several variables in order to estimate the number of fundamental dimensions that underlie the observed data and to describe and measure those dimensions. It is used frequently in the development of scoring systems for rating scales and questionnaires.
A behavior disorder originating in childhood in which the essential features are signs of developmentally inappropriate inattention, impulsivity, and hyperactivity. Although most individuals have symptoms of both inattention and hyperactivity-impulsivity, one or the other pattern may be predominant. The disorder is more frequent in males than females. Onset is in childhood. Symptoms often attenuate during late adolescence although a minority experience the full complement of symptoms into mid-adulthood. (From DSM-V)
Age as a constituent element or influence contributing to the production of a result. It may be applicable to the cause or the effect of a circumstance. It is used with human or animal concepts but should be differentiated from AGING, a physiological process, and TIME FACTORS which refers only to the passage of time.
Depressive states usually of moderate intensity in contrast with major depression present in neurotic and psychotic disorders.
Statistical models in which the value of a parameter for a given value of a factor is assumed to be equal to a + bx, where a and b are constants. The models predict a linear regression.
Those psychological characteristics which differentiate individuals from one another.
Comparison of various psychological, sociological, or cultural factors in order to assess the similarities or diversities occurring in two or more different cultures or societies.
A major affective disorder marked by severe mood swings (manic or major depressive episodes) and a tendency to remission and recurrence.
Elements of limited time intervals, contributing to particular results or situations.
Standardized tests designed to measure abilities, as in intelligence, aptitude, and achievement tests, or to evaluate personality traits.
A syndrome characterized by central nervous system dysfunction in association with LIVER FAILURE, including portal-systemic shunts. Clinical features include lethargy and CONFUSION (frequently progressing to COMA); ASTERIXIS; NYSTAGMUS, PATHOLOGIC; brisk oculovestibular reflexes; decorticate and decerebrate posturing; MUSCLE SPASTICITY; and bilateral extensor plantar reflexes (see REFLEX, BABINSKI). ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY may demonstrate triphasic waves. (From Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, pp1117-20; Plum & Posner, Diagnosis of Stupor and Coma, 3rd ed, p222-5)
The thin layer of GRAY MATTER on the surface of the CEREBRAL HEMISPHERES that develops from the TELENCEPHALON and folds into gyri and sulchi. It reaches its highest development in humans and is responsible for intellectual faculties and higher mental functions.
A technique of inputting two-dimensional images into a computer and then enhancing or analyzing the imagery into a form that is more useful to the human observer.
The worsening of a disease over time. This concept is most often used for chronic and incurable diseases where the stage of the disease is an important determinant of therapy and prognosis.
Performance, usually in school work, poorer than that predicted from aptitude and/or intelligence testing.
Statistical interpretation and description of a population with reference to distribution, composition, or structure.
A class of statistical methods applicable to a large set of probability distributions used to test for correlation, location, independence, etc. In most nonparametric statistical tests, the original scores or observations are replaced by another variable containing less information. An important class of nonparametric tests employs the ordinal properties of the data. Another class of tests uses information about whether an observation is above or below some fixed value such as the median, and a third class is based on the frequency of the occurrence of runs in the data. (From McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 4th ed, p1284; Corsini, Concise Encyclopedia of Psychology, 1987, p764-5)
The knowledge or perception that someone or something present has been previously encountered.
The rostral part of the frontal lobe, bounded by the inferior precentral fissure in humans, which receives projection fibers from the MEDIODORSAL NUCLEUS OF THE THALAMUS. The prefrontal cortex receives afferent fibers from numerous structures of the DIENCEPHALON; MESENCEPHALON; and LIMBIC SYSTEM as well as cortical afferents of visual, auditory, and somatic origin.
Psychiatric illness or diseases manifested by breakdowns in the adaptational process expressed primarily as abnormalities of thought, feeling, and behavior producing either distress or impairment of function.
A disorder characterized by recurrent episodes of paroxysmal brain dysfunction due to a sudden, disorderly, and excessive neuronal discharge. Epilepsy classification systems are generally based upon: (1) clinical features of the seizure episodes (e.g., motor seizure), (2) etiology (e.g., post-traumatic), (3) anatomic site of seizure origin (e.g., frontal lobe seizure), (4) tendency to spread to other structures in the brain, and (5) temporal patterns (e.g., nocturnal epilepsy). (From Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, p313)
Includes the spectrum of human immunodeficiency virus infections that range from asymptomatic seropositivity, thru AIDS-related complex (ARC), to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).
A cognitive disorder marked by an impaired ability to comprehend or express language in its written or spoken form. This condition is caused by diseases which affect the language areas of the dominant hemisphere. Clinical features are used to classify the various subtypes of this condition. General categories include receptive, expressive, and mixed forms of aphasia.
Pathologic processes that affect patients after a surgical procedure. They may or may not be related to the disease for which the surgery was done, and they may or may not be direct results of the surgery.
A set of techniques used when variation in several variables has to be studied simultaneously. In statistics, multivariate analysis is interpreted as any analytic method that allows simultaneous study of two or more dependent variables.
Drugs used to prevent SEIZURES or reduce their severity.
Method for obtaining information through verbal responses, written or oral, from subjects.
Binary classification measures to assess test results. Sensitivity or recall rate is the proportion of true positives. Specificity is the probability of correctly determining the absence of a condition. (From Last, Dictionary of Epidemiology, 2d ed)
A method of studying a drug or procedure in which both the subjects and investigators are kept unaware of who is actually getting which specific treatment.
Predetermined sets of questions used to collect data - clinical data, social status, occupational group, etc. The term is often applied to a self-completed survey instrument.
An aspect of personal behavior or lifestyle, environmental exposure, or inborn or inherited characteristic, which, on the basis of epidemiologic evidence, is known to be associated with a health-related condition considered important to prevent.
Those affective states which can be experienced and have arousing and motivational properties.
Evaluation undertaken to assess the results or consequences of management and procedures used in combating disease in order to determine the efficacy, effectiveness, safety, and practicability of these interventions in individual cases or series.
Loss of the ability to comprehend the meaning or recognize the importance of various forms of stimulation that cannot be attributed to impairment of a primary sensory modality. Tactile agnosia is characterized by an inability to perceive the shape and nature of an object by touch alone, despite unimpaired sensation to light touch, position, and other primary sensory modalities.
One of the non-essential amino acids commonly occurring in the L-form. It is found in animals and plants, especially in sugar cane and sugar beets. It may be a neurotransmitter.
Small-scale tests of methods and procedures to be used on a larger scale if the pilot study demonstrates that these methods and procedures can work.
A language dysfunction characterized by the inability to name people and objects that are correctly perceived. The individual is able to describe the object in question, but cannot provide the name. This condition is associated with lesions of the dominant hemisphere involving the language areas, in particular the TEMPORAL LOBE. (From Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, p484)
An autoimmune disorder mainly affecting young adults and characterized by destruction of myelin in the central nervous system. Pathologic findings include multiple sharply demarcated areas of demyelination throughout the white matter of the central nervous system. Clinical manifestations include visual loss, extra-ocular movement disorders, paresthesias, loss of sensation, weakness, dysarthria, spasticity, ataxia, and bladder dysfunction. The usual pattern is one of recurrent attacks followed by partial recovery (see MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS, RELAPSING-REMITTING), but acute fulminating and chronic progressive forms (see MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS, CHRONIC PROGRESSIVE) also occur. (Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, p903)
The consequences of exposing the FETUS in utero to certain factors, such as NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; DRUGS; RADIATION; and other physical or chemical factors. These consequences are observed later in the offspring after BIRTH.
Mathematical procedure that transforms a number of possibly correlated variables into a smaller number of uncorrelated variables called principal components.
Determination of the degree of a physical, mental, or emotional handicap. The diagnosis is applied to legal qualification for benefits and income under disability insurance and to eligibility for Social Security and workmen's compensation benefits.
Loss of the ability to recall information that had been previously encoded in memory prior to a specified or approximate point in time. This process may be organic or psychogenic in origin. Organic forms may be associated with CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENTS; SEIZURES; DEMENTIA; and a wide variety of other conditions that impair cerebral function. (From Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, pp426-9)
Studies used to test etiologic hypotheses in which inferences about an exposure to putative causal factors are derived from data relating to characteristics of persons under study or to events or experiences in their past. The essential feature is that some of the persons under study have the disease or outcome of interest and their characteristics are compared with those of unaffected persons.
A group of pathological conditions characterized by sudden, non-convulsive loss of neurological function due to BRAIN ISCHEMIA or INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGES. Stroke is classified by the type of tissue NECROSIS, such as the anatomic location, vasculature involved, etiology, age of the affected individual, and hemorrhagic vs. non-hemorrhagic nature. (From Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, pp777-810)
The presence of co-existing or additional diseases with reference to an initial diagnosis or with reference to the index condition that is the subject of study. Comorbidity may affect the ability of affected individuals to function and also their survival; it may be used as a prognostic indicator for length of hospital stay, cost factors, and outcome or survival.
Persons living in the United States of Mexican (MEXICAN AMERICANS), Puerto Rican, Cuban, Central or South American, or other Spanish culture or origin. The concept does not include Brazilian Americans or Portuguese Americans.
A primary, chronic disease with genetic, psychosocial, and environmental factors influencing its development and manifestations. The disease is often progressive and fatal. It is characterized by impaired control over drinking, preoccupation with the drug alcohol, use of alcohol despite adverse consequences, and distortions in thinking, most notably denial. Each of these symptoms may be continuous or periodic. (Morse & Flavin for the Joint Commission of the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence and the American Society of Addiction Medicine to Study the Definition and Criteria for the Diagnosis of Alcoholism: in JAMA 1992;268:1012-4)
The exposure to potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological agents that occurs as a result of one's occupation.
Maleness or femaleness as a constituent element or influence contributing to the production of a result. It may be applicable to the cause or effect of a circumstance. It is used with human or animal concepts but should be differentiated from SEX CHARACTERISTICS, anatomical or physiological manifestations of sex, and from SEX DISTRIBUTION, the number of males and females in given circumstances.
A generic concept reflecting concern with the modification and enhancement of life attributes, e.g., physical, political, moral and social environment; the overall condition of a human life.
A curved elevation of GRAY MATTER extending the entire length of the floor of the TEMPORAL HORN of the LATERAL VENTRICLE (see also TEMPORAL LOBE). The hippocampus proper, subiculum, and DENTATE GYRUS constitute the hippocampal formation. Sometimes authors include the ENTORHINAL CORTEX in the hippocampal formation.
A group of cognitive disorders characterized by the inability to perform previously learned skills that cannot be attributed to deficits of motor or sensory function. The two major subtypes of this condition are ideomotor (see APRAXIA, IDEOMOTOR) and ideational apraxia, which refers to loss of the ability to mentally formulate the processes involved with performing an action. For example, dressing apraxia may result from an inability to mentally formulate the act of placing clothes on the body. Apraxias are generally associated with lesions of the dominant PARIETAL LOBE and supramarginal gyrus. (From Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, pp56-7)
A mental disorder associated with chronic ethanol abuse (ALCOHOLISM) and nutritional deficiencies characterized by short term memory loss, confabulations, and disturbances of attention. (Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, p1139)
A graphic means for assessing the ability of a screening test to discriminate between healthy and diseased persons; may also be used in other studies, e.g., distinguishing stimuli responses as to a faint stimuli or nonstimuli.
Spectroscopic method of measuring the magnetic moment of elementary particles such as atomic nuclei, protons or electrons. It is employed in clinical applications such as NMR Tomography (MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING).
Government required written and driving test given to individuals prior to obtaining an operator's license.
Disorders in which there is a delay in development based on that expected for a given age level or stage of development. These impairments or disabilities originate before age 18, may be expected to continue indefinitely, and constitute a substantial impairment. Biological and nonbiological factors are involved in these disorders. (From American Psychiatric Glossary, 6th ed)
Diseases which have one or more of the following characteristics: they are permanent, leave residual disability, are caused by nonreversible pathological alteration, require special training of the patient for rehabilitation, or may be expected to require a long period of supervision, observation, or care. (Dictionary of Health Services Management, 2d ed)
Diseases of any component of the brain (including the cerebral hemispheres, diencephalon, brain stem, and cerebellum) or the spinal cord.
The genetic constitution of the individual, comprising the ALLELES present at each GENETIC LOCUS.
Type of declarative memory, consisting of personal memory in contrast to general knowledge.
Non-invasive methods of visualizing the CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM, especially the brain, by various imaging modalities.
A cognitive process involving the formation of ideas generalized from the knowledge of qualities, aspects, and relations of objects.
Tendency toward a lessened strength of response due to practice or activity. It is independent of the effect of reward and is a direct function of time interval since the last response and the number of preceding responses.
Loss of the ability to form new memories beyond a certain point in time. This condition may be organic or psychogenic in origin. Organically induced anterograde amnesia may follow CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; SEIZURES; ANOXIA; and other conditions which adversely affect neural structures associated with memory formation (e.g., the HIPPOCAMPUS; FORNIX (BRAIN); MAMMILLARY BODIES; and ANTERIOR THALAMIC NUCLEI). (From Memory 1997 Jan-Mar;5(1-2):49-71)
A two-person sport in which the fists are skillfully used to attack and defend.
Personal names, given or surname, as cultural characteristics, as ethnological or religious patterns, as indications of the geographic distribution of families and inbreeding, etc. Analysis of isonymy, the quality of having the same or similar names, is useful in the study of population genetics. NAMES is used also for the history of names or name changes of corporate bodies, such as medical societies, universities, hospitals, government agencies, etc.
Individuals whose ancestral origins are in the continent of Europe.
Marked impairments in the development of motor coordination such that the impairment interferes with activities of daily living. (From DSM-V)
A scale comprising 18 symptom constructs chosen to represent relatively independent dimensions of manifest psychopathology. The initial intended use was to provide more efficient assessment of treatment response in clinical psychopharmacology research; however, the scale was readily adapted to other uses. (From Hersen, M. and Bellack, A.S., Dictionary of Behavioral Assessment Techniques, p. 87)
A personality disorder in which there are oddities of thought (magical thinking, paranoid ideation, suspiciousness), perception (illusions, depersonalization), speech (digressive, vague, overelaborate), and behavior (inappropriate affect in social interactions, frequently social isolation) that are not severe enough to characterize schizophrenia.

Disrupted temporal lobe connections in semantic dementia. (1/12115)

Semantic dementia refers to the variant of frontotemporal dementia in which there is progressive semantic deterioration and anomia in the face of relative preservation of other language and cognitive functions. Structural imaging and SPECT studies of such patients have suggested that the site of damage, and by inference the region critical to semantic processing, is the anterolateral temporal lobe, especially on the left. Recent functional imaging studies of normal participants have revealed a network of areas involved in semantic tasks. The present study used PET to examine the consequences of focal damage to the anterolateral temporal cortex for the operation of this semantic network. We measured PET activation associated with a semantic decision task relative to a visual decision task in four patients with semantic dementia compared with six age-matched normal controls. Normals activated a network of regions consistent with previous studies. The patients activated some areas consistently with the normals, including some regions of significant atrophy, but showed substantially reduced activity particularly in the left posterior inferior temporal gyrus (iTG) (Brodmann area 37/19). Voxel-based morphometry, used to identify the regions of structural deficit, revealed significant anterolateral temporal atrophy (especially on the left), but no significant structural damage to the posterior inferior temporal lobe. Other evidence suggests that the left posterior iTG is critically involved in lexical-phonological retrieval: the lack of activation here is consistent with the observation that these patients are all anomic. We conclude that changes in activity in regions distant from the patients' structural damage support the argument that their prominent anomia is due to disrupted temporal lobe connections.  (+info)

Non-motor associative learning in patients with isolated degenerative cerebellar disease. (2/12115)

In recent decades it has become clear that the cerebellum is involved in associative motor learning, but its exact role in motor learning as such is still controversial. Recently, a contribution of the cerebellum to different cognitive abilities has also been considered, but it remains unclear whether the cerebellum contributes to cognitive associative learning. We compared nine patients with an isolated cerebellar degenerative disease in a cognitive associative learning task with 10 controls. Patients and controls were matched for age, sex, handedness, level of education, intelligence and capabilities of visual memory. The subjects were asked to learn the association between six pairs of colours and numerals by trial and error. Additionally, a simple reaction time and a visual scanning test were conducted in order to control for the influence of motor performance deficits in cerebellar patients. In comparison with the controls, it took the patients significantly longer to learn the correct associations between colours and numerals, and they were impaired in recognizing them later on. Two patients showed no associative learning effect at all. Neither the simple reaction time nor the visual scanning time correlated substantially with the results of associative learning. Therefore, motor-associated disabilities are unlikely to be the reason for the learning deficit in cerebellar patients. Our results suggest that the cerebellum might contribute to motor-independent processes that are generally involved in associative learning.  (+info)

Unilateral neglect and disambiguation of the Necker cube. (3/12115)

Three groups of patients (right brain-damaged patients with or without left neglect, and left brain-damaged patients) and a group of healthy subjects, matched for age and educational level to the three groups of patients, were asked to report which of the two frontal surfaces of Necker cubes oriented in four different ways looked, at first sight, nearer to the viewer. The extent to which, and the way in which, disambiguation of the apparent perspective of Necker cubes occurred was found to vary across the four orientations and to be different in left-neglect patients compared with subjects of the other three groups. With normal subjects, the disambiguating factor is suggested to be a disposition to perceive the upper surface, which is nearly orthogonal to the frontal plane, as external to the cube. This would result from a navigation of the observer's spatial attention towards its target along a particular path that is altered in patients suffering from left neglect. It is suggested that comparison of the paths followed by the attentional vectors of normal subjects and left-neglect patients is potentially fruitful for a better understanding of the brain's normal mechanisms of spatial attention and of unresolved issues concerning the perception of the Necker cube.  (+info)

Impairment in preattentive visual processing in patients with Parkinson's disease. (4/12115)

We explored the possibility of whether preattentive visual processing is impaired in Parkinson's disease. With this aim, visual discrimination thresholds for orientation texture stimuli were determined in two separate measurement sessions in 16 patients with idiopathic Parkinson's disease. The results were compared with those of 16 control subjects age-matched and 16 young healthy volunteers. Discrimination thresholds were measured in a four-alternative spatial forced-choice paradigm, in which subjects judged the location of a target embedded in a background of distractors. Four different stimulus configurations were employed: (i) a group of vertical targets among horizontal distractors ('vertical line targets'); (ii) targets with varying levels of orientation difference on a background of spatially filtered vertically oriented noise ('Gaussian filtered noise'); (iii) one 'L' among 43 '+' signs ('texton'), all of which assess preattentive visual processing; and (iv) control condition, of one 'L' among 43 'T' distractors ('non-texton' search target), which reflects attentive visual processing. In two of the preattentive tasks (filtered noise and texton), patients with Parkinson's disease required significantly greater orientation differences and longer stimulus durations, respectively. In contrast, their performance in the vertical line target and non-texton search target was comparable to that of the matched control subjects. These differences were more pronounced in the first compared with the second session. Duration of illness and age within the patient group correlated significantly with test performance. In all conditions tested, the young control subjects performed significantly better than the more elderly control group, further indicating an effect of age on this form of visual processing. The results suggest that, in addition to the well documented impairment in retinal processing, idiopathic Parkinson's disease is associated with a deficit in preattentive cortical visual processing.  (+info)

The role of ventral medial wall motor areas in bimanual co-ordination. A combined lesion and activation study. (5/12115)

Two patients with midline tumours and disturbances of bimanual co-ordination as the presenting symptoms were examined. Both reported difficulties whenever the two hands had to act together simultaneously, whereas they had no problems with unimanual dexterity or the use of both hands sequentially. In the first patient the lesion was confined to the cingulate gyrus; in the second it also invaded the corpus callosum and the supplementary motor area. Kinematic analysis of bimanual in-phase and anti-phase movements revealed an impairment of both the temporal adjustment between the hands and the independence of movements between the two hands. A functional imaging study in six volunteers, who performed the same bimanual in-phase and anti-phase tasks, showed strong activations of midline areas including the cingulate and ventral supplementary motor area. The prominent activation of the ventral medial wall motor areas in the volunteers in conjunction with the bimanual co-ordination disorder in the two patients with lesions compromising their function is evidence for their pivotal role in bimanual co-ordination.  (+info)

Episodic memory in transient global amnesia: encoding, storage, or retrieval deficit? (6/12115)

OBJECTIVES: To assess episodic memory (especially anterograde amnesia) during the acute phase of transient global amnesia to differentiate an encoding, a storage, or a retrieval deficit. METHODS: In three patients, whose amnestic episode fulfilled all current criteria for transient global amnesia, a neuropsychological protocol was administered which included a word learning task derived from the Grober and Buschke's procedure. RESULTS: In one patient, the results suggested an encoding deficit, and in two others, a storage deficit. CONCLUSIONS: The encoding/storage impairment concerning anterograde amnesia documented in our patients stands in clear contrast with the impairment in retrieval which must underly the retrograde amnesia that also characterises transient global amnesia. This dissociation in turn favours the idea of a functional independence among the cognitive mechanisms that subserve episodic memory.  (+info)

Pure apraxic agraphia with abnormal writing stroke sequences: report of a Japanese patient with a left superior parietal haemorrhage. (7/12115)

A 67 year old Japanese male patient had pure agraphia after a haemorrhage in the left superior parietal lobule. He developed difficulty in letter formation but showed no linguistic errors, consistent with the criteria of apraxic agraphia. He manifested a selective disorder of sequencing writing strokes, although he was able to orally state the correct sequences. The patient's complete recovery after 1 month, without new learning, showed that he had manifested a selective disorder of writing stroke sequences. These findings indicate that the final stage of the execution of writing according to acquired sequential memory shown as a stroke sequence can be selectively disturbed, and should be considered to be distinct from the ability of character imagery and the knowledge of the writing stroke sequence itself. This case also indicates that the left superior parietal lobule plays an important part in the execution of writing.  (+info)

Cognitive outcome after unilateral pallidal stimulation in Parkinson's disease. (8/12115)

OBJECTIVES: Chronic high frequency electrostimulation of the globus pallidus internus mimics pallidotomy and improves clinical symptoms in Parkinson's disease. The aim of this study was to investigate the cognitive consequences of unilateral deep brain stimulation. METHODS: Twenty non-demented patients with Parkinson's disease (age range 38-70 years) were neuropsychologically assessed 2 months before and 3 months after unilateral pallidal stimulation. The cognitive assessment included measures of memory, spatial behaviour, and executive and psychomotor function. In addition to group analysis of cognitive change, a cognitive impairment index (CII) was calculated for each individual patient representing the percentage of cognitive measures that fell more than 1 SD below the mean of a corresponding normative sample. RESULTS: Neurological assessment with the Hoehn and Yahr scale and the unified Parkinson's disease rating scale disclosed a significant postoperative reduction in average clinical Parkinson's disease symptomatology (p<0.001). Repeated measures multivariate analysis of variance (using right/left side of stimulation as a between subjects factor) showed no significant postoperative change in cognitive performance for the total patient group (main effect of operation). The side of stimulation did not show a significant differential effect on cognitive performance (main effect of lateralisation). There was no significant operation by lateralisation interaction effect. Although the patients experienced significant motor symptom relief after pallidal stimulation, they remained mildly depressed after surgery. Analysis of the individual CII changes showed a postoperative cognitive decline in 30% of the patients. These patients were significantly older and took higher preoperative doses of levodopa than patients showing no change or a postoperative cognitive improvement. CONCLUSIONS: Left or right pallidal stimulation for the relief of motor symptoms in Parkinson's disease seems relatively safe, although older patients and patients needing high preoperative doses of levodopa seem to be more vulnerable for cognitive decline after deep brain stimulation.  (+info)

Title:Auditory Verbal Learning Test is Superior to Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure Memory for Predicting Mild Cognitive Impairment to Alzheimers Disease. VOLUME: 12 ISSUE: 6. Author(s):Qianhua Zhao, Qihao Guo, Xiaoniu Liang, Meirong Chen, Yan Zhou, Ding Ding and Zhen Hong. Affiliation:No. 12 Wulumuqi Rd(M), Shanghai, China, 200040.. Keywords:Alzheimers disease, auditory verbal learning test, mild cognitive impairment, operational criteria, Rey-Osterrieth complex figure test, subjective cognitive decline.. Abstract:Objective: To carry out meaningful comparisons on results of different research studies on mild cognitive impairment (MCI), it is critical to select an appropriate objective memory test to examine memory deficit. We aim to refine the operational criteria of amnestic MCI (aMCI) on neuropsychological tests that optimally balance the sensitivity and specificity. Methods: We focused on 206 non-demented subjects from memory clinic. We then classified each individual as having MCI or ...
TRVB test de retenciГіn visual de Benton manual (Book. 10/9/2018 · The Benton Visual Retention Test - Fifth Edition (BVRT-5) is a clinical and research instrument designed to assess visual memory, visual perception, and visual-constructive abilities and as a supplement to mental examinations of persons suspected of abnormality. Three forms, C, D, and E …, However, during the clinical psychology area of the 1940s and 1950s, the qualitative approach to assessment gave way to the use of individual psychometric tests, many of which could be scored such as the Benton Visual Retention Test (Benton, 1974), the Graham-Kendall Memory for Designs (1960), and the Bender Gestalt (Bender, 1938).. More than 50 years of proven clinical utility is the hallmark of Benton Visual Retention Test®.This test has proven its sensitivity to reading disabilities, nonverbal learning disabilities, traumatic brain injury, Attention-Deficit Disorder, Alzheimers, and other forms of dementia. 11/22/2006 · The Benton ...
TY - JOUR. T1 - Effects of low visual acuity on neuropsychological test scores. T2 - A simulation study. AU - de Haan, Gera A.. AU - Tucha, Oliver. AU - Heutink, Joost. PY - 2020. Y1 - 2020. N2 - Objective: To systematically examine the effect of low visual acuity (LVA) on a number of commonly used neuropsychological tests.Method: In this study, the influence of LVA on a number of commonly used neuropsychological tests was examined in 238 healthy older adults (aged 50-80) without visual or neurological impairment. LVA was simulated using simulation glasses.Results: It was found that a simulated LVA of ∼0.2 (decimal acuity; Snellen 6/30 or 20/100, LogMAR 0.7) had a negative impact on test performance for the Trail Making Test, Complex Figure of Rey (copy score), and Visual Object and Space Perception battery subtest 3, but not for the Mini Mental State Examination and Balloons test. For some tests, the negative impact of LVA increased with age.Conclusions: These results have important ...
The effect of seasons and seasonal variation on neuropsychological test performance in patients with bipolar I disorder and their first-degree ...
TY - JOUR. T1 - Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status (RBANS). T2 - Normative Data for Older Adults. AU - Olaithe, Michelle. AU - Weinborn, Michael. AU - Lowndes, Talitha. AU - Ng, Amanda. AU - Hodgson, Erica. AU - Fine, Lara Aishling. AU - Parker, Denise. AU - Pushpanathan, Maria. AU - Bayliss, Donna. AU - Anderson, Michael. AU - Bucks, Romola. PY - 2019/12. Y1 - 2019/12. N2 - ObjectiveProvide updated older adult (ages 60+) normative data for the Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status (RBANS), Form A, using regression techniques, and corrected for education, age, and gender.MethodParticipants (aged 60-93 years; N = 415) were recruited through the Healthy Ageing Research Program (HARP), University of Western Australia, and completed Form A of the RBANS as part of a wider neuropsychological test battery. Regression-based techniques were used to generate normative data rather than means-based methods. This methodology allows for the control ...
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TY - JOUR. T1 - Regional brain atrophy in HIV‐1 infection. T2 - association with specific neuropsychological test performance. AU - Hestad, K.. AU - McArthur, J. H.. AU - Pan, G. J.Dal. AU - Selnes, O. A.. AU - Nance‐Sproson, T. E.. AU - Aylward, E.. AU - Mathews, V. P.. AU - McArthur, J. C.. PY - 1993/8. Y1 - 1993/8. N2 - Quantified magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was related to neuropsychological (NP) test scores in an asymptomatic HIV‐1 seropositive group, a non‐demented AIDS/ARC group, a group of subjects with HIV‐1 dementia, and a seronegative control group. The MRIs were quantified using three planimetric measures of brain structure: the bicaudate ratio (a measure of caudate region atrophy), the bifrontal ratio (a measure of frontal region atrophy), and the ventricle to brain ratio (a measure of overall cerebral atrophy). Cognitive performance was assessed with standard NP tests. Significant correlations between the MRI ratios and many of the NP tests were observed. Of the tests ...
To characterize the relationship between dispersion-based intra-individual variability (IIVd) in neuropsychological test performance and brain volume among HIV seropositive and seronegative men and to
TY - JOUR. T1 - Are we exaggerating neuropsychological impairment in depression? Reopening a closed chapter. AU - Moritz, Steffen. AU - Stöckert, Katrin. AU - Hauschildt, Marit. AU - Lill, Hannah. AU - Jelinek, Lena. AU - Beblo, Thomas. AU - Diedrich, Sabrina. AU - Arlt, Sönke. PY - 2017. Y1 - 2017. N2 - Background: Meta-analyses conclude that individuals with depression display neurocognitive deficits. However, the extent to which some of these impairments occur due to secondary influences, and thus in part represent epiphenomena, has rarely been tested. Therefore, the authors examined the impact of performance motivation, attitude towards cognitive assessment, and momentary symptoms during assessment on neuropsychological test results in depression. Research design and methods: Forty-five patients with depression and 60 nonclinical individuals underwent a comprehensive neuropsychological test battery. Before and after the assessment, each participant was asked to complete the Momentary ...
The Rey-Osterrieth (ROCF) and Taylor (TCF) complex figure tests are widely used to assess visuospatial and constructional abilities as well as visual/non-verbal memory. Normative data adjusted to the cultural and linguistic reality of older Quebec-French individuals is still nonexistent for these te …
TY - JOUR. T1 - Complex real-world functioning and neuropsychological test performance in older adults. AU - Baird, A.. AU - Podell, Kenneth. AU - Lovell, M.. AU - McGinty, S. B.. PY - 2001/12/1. Y1 - 2001/12/1. N2 - In stepwise regression analyses with Independent Living Scales (ILS) summary and subscale scores as the dependent variables, 8 of 10 psychometric measures from our battery for older adults emerged as important predictors for 69 patients referred for clinical assessment. The Dementia Rating Scale (DRS) score entered first for 6/8 analyses. However, measures of confrontation naming, oral reading, verbal fluency, paragraph recall, visual perception, complex attention, and depression also added explanatory power. Multiple Rs ranged from .66 to .88 except for the Social Adjustment subscale, which correlated only with the depression scale.. AB - In stepwise regression analyses with Independent Living Scales (ILS) summary and subscale scores as the dependent variables, 8 of 10 psychometric ...
Introduction: Semi-automatic neuropsychological testing has gained a position both in clinical use and in research. Comparison studies with traditional neuropsychological tests are sparse and the role of such semi-automated testing is debated. To integrate semi-automated neuropsychological testing in the established clinical setting the tests must be validated in the patient groups addressed. The aim of this study was to validate Cambridge Neuropsychological Tests Automated Battery (CANTAB) in patients with epilepsy. Material and Methods: Patients scheduled for traditional neuropsychological testing with Category test (CT), Trail Making Test part B (TMT-B), WAIS-III and WMS-R were also asked to complete the CANTAB battery. Our hypothesis was that memory tests from CANTAB (DMS, PAL) would correlate with visual memory tests from WMS-R and that a test of executive functions from CANTAB (SOC) would correlate with functions tested with TMT-B, CT and WAIS-III. Results: Scores from DMS correlated strongly with
Neuropsychological examination is an important way of formally assessing brain function. While there is so much documentation about the influence that some factors such as age and education has on neuropsychological tests (NP), not so much has been done to assess the influence that residency (rural/urban) may have. The specific objectives of this study were to establish if there is a significant difference in mean test scores on NP tests between rural and urban participants, to assess which tests on the Zambia Neurobehavioural Test Battery (ZNTB) are more affected by the participants residency (rural/urban) and to determine the extent to which education, gender and age predict test performance on NP tests for rural and urban participants. The participants (324) were drawn from both urban and rural areas of Zambia (Rural =152 and Urban = 172). However, only 234 participants (Rural =152 and Urban 82) were used for all the analyses in this particular study. The 234 participants were used as the ...
The conventional scores of the neuropsychological batteries are not fully optimized for diagnosing dementia despite their variety and abundance of information. To achieve low-cost high-accuracy diagnose performance for dementia using a neuropsychological battery, a novel framework is proposed using the response profiles of 2666 cognitively normal elderly individuals and 435 dementia patients who have participated in the Korean Longitudinal Study on Cognitive Aging and Dementia (KLOSCAD). The key idea of the proposed framework is to propose a cost-effective and precise two-stage classification procedure that employed Mini Mental Status Examination (MMSE) as a screening test and the KLOSCAD Neuropsychological Assessment Battery as a diagnostic test using deep learning. In addition, an evaluation procedure of redundant variables is introduced to prevent performance degradation. A missing data imputation method is also presented to increase the robustness by recovering information loss. The proposed deep
Objectives Endophenotypes in schizophrenia research is a contemporary approach to studying this heterogeneous mental illness, and several candidate neurophysiological markers (e.g. P50 sensory gating) and neuropsychological tests (e.g. Continuous Performance Test (CPT) and Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST)) have been proposed. However, the clinical utility of a single marker appears to be limited. In the present study, we aimed to construct a diagnostic model incorporating P50 sensory gating with other neuropsychological tests in order to improve the clinical utility. Methods We recruited clinically stable outpatients meeting DSM-IV criteria of schizophrenia and age- and gender-matched healthy controls. Participants underwent P50 sensory gating experimental sessions and batteries of neuropsychological tests, including CPT, WCST and Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale Third Edition (WAIS-III). Results A total of 106 schizophrenia patients and 74 healthy controls were enrolled. Compared with healthy
TY - JOUR. T1 - Predicting Alzheimers disease. T2 - Neuropsychological tests, self-reports, and informant reports of cognitive difficulties. AU - Rabin, Laura A.. AU - Wang, Cuiling. AU - Katz, Mindy J.. AU - Derby, Carol A.. AU - Buschke, Herman. AU - Lipton, Richard B.. PY - 2012/6. Y1 - 2012/6. N2 - OBJECTIVES: To investigate the independent and combined contributions to the risk of Alzheimers disease (AD) of three important domains of cognitive assessment: neuropsychological measurement, self-reports, and informant reports. DESIGN: Longitudinal, community-based sample. SETTING: Einstein Aging Study. PARTICIPANTS: Six hundred twenty-seven individuals without dementia aged 70 and older systematically recruited from the Bronx, New York. MEASUREMENTS: Comprehensive assessment included neurological examination, behavioral questions, and neuropsychological testing. AD diagnoses were based on Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, criteria assigned at a ...
This analysis of individual patient data across the 31 studies provides further evidence that euthymic bipolar patients exhibit moderate cognitive impairments on a range of standard neuropsychological tests. Cognitive deficits remain significant even after controlling for key baseline factors such as age, IQ and gender that are known to affect neuropsychological test performance. The current level of minor depressive symptoms and the effects of some drug treatments may contribute to these effects but cannot explain them. Thus, there is significant residual cognitive impairment associated with bipolar disorder over and above the known confounding factors.. The effect sizes for such deficits were lower (0.26-0.63) than those reported in prior meta-analyses [6-8, 10] (ds = 0.5-1.0). This reduction in observed effect sizes is in part due to controlling better for the effect of age, IQ and gender. However, we were also able to include unpublished studies which often had the lowest effect sizes [e.g. ...
It has long been appreciated among clinical neuropsychologists that both primary and secondary factors contribute to cognitive dysfunction in neurological patients. Primary influences are the direct result of the extent and location of damage to the brain. Secondary influences stem from something associated with brain injury or disease besides the specific areas of the brain affected.
It has long been appreciated among clinical neuropsychologists that both primary and secondary factors contribute to cognitive dysfunction in neurological patients. Primary influences are the direct result of the extent and location of damage to the brain. Secondary influences stem from something associated with brain injury or disease besides the specific areas of the brain affected.
OBJECTIVE: To identify type 1 diabetes-related predictors of change in the neuropsychological profiles of children over the first 2 years of the illness. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS: Children (n = 116) aged 3-14 years were assessed soon after diagnosis and re-evaluated 2 years later to examine relationships between illness variables, such as age of onset and metabolic control history, and changes in neuropsychological status over the first 2 years of type 1 diabetes. RESULTS: Illness variables were significant predictors of change in neuropsychological test scores within 2 years of onset of type 1 diabetes. Age of onset of type 1 diabetes predicted negative change on Performance Intelligence Quotient, whereas both recurrent severe hypoglycemia and chronic hyperglycemia were associated with reduced memory and learning capacity. CONCLUSIONS: These results suggest that the relationship between metabolic control and neuropsychological risk is nonlinear in that children with either recurrent severe ...
Introduction: With the recent publication of new criteria for the diagnosis of preclinical Alzheimers disease (AD), there is a need for neuropsychological tools that take premorbid functioning into account in order to detect subtle cognitive decline. Using demographic adjustments is one method for increasing the sensitivity of commonly used measures. We sought to provide a useful online z-score calculator that yields estimates of percentile ranges and adjusts individual performance based on sex, age and/or education for each of the neuropsychological tests of the National Alzheimers Coordinating Center Uniform Data Set (NACC, UDS). In addition, we aimed to provide an easily accessible method of creating norms for other clinical researchers for their own, unique data sets. Methods: Data from 3,268 clinically cognitively-normal older UDS subjects from a cohort reported by Weintraub and colleagues (2009) were included. For all neuropsychological tests, z-scores were estimated by subtracting the ...
Many studies have reported on the pattern of neuropsychological test performance across varied seizure diagnosis populations. Far fewer studies have evaluated the accuracy of the clinical neuropsychologist in formulating an impression of the seizure diagnosis based on results of neuropsychological assessment, or compared the accuracy of clinical neuropsychological judgment to results of statistical prediction. Accuracy of clinical neuropsychological versus statistical prediction was investigated in four seizure classification scenarios. While both methods outperformed chance, accuracy of clinical neuropsychological classification was either equivalent or superior to statistical prediction. Results support the utility and validity of clinical neuropsychological judgment in epilepsy treatment settings
Objective: Computerized neurocognitive assessment tools (NCATS) are often used as a screening tool to identify cognitive deficits after mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI). However, differing methodology across studies renders it difficult to identify a consensus regarding the validity of NCATs. Thus, studies where multiple NCATs are administered in the same sample using the same methodology are warranted. Method: We investigated the validity of four NCATs: the ANAM4, CNS-VS, CogState, and ImPACT. Two NCATs were randomly assigned and a battery of traditional neuropsychological (NP) tests administered to healthy control active duty service members (n = 272) and to service members within 7 days of an mTBI (n = 231). Analyses included correlations between NCAT and the NP test scores to investigate convergent and discriminant validity, and regression analyses to identify the unique variance in NCAT and NP scores attributed to group status. Effect sizes (Cohens f2) were calculated to guide ...
Neuropsychological impairment is widely accepted as being common in acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) but infrequent in asymptomatic human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected individuals. The neuropsychological function of a homogenous sample of HIV-infected haemophiliacs was investigated. Neuropsychological impairment, the nature of which is compatible with that described in the existing literature, was found in one of four AIDS cases. Eleven AIDS related complex (ARC) and 12 asymptomatic HIV-infected individuals were free of neuropsychological deficit.. ...
TY - GEN. T1 - What kind of integration between qualitative and quantitative measures in spatial-deficit recovery? Neuropsychological evidence for the assessment and intervention. AU - Balconi, Michela. AU - Sozzi, Matteo. PY - 2012. Y1 - 2012. N2 - Qualitative and quantitative measures to explore the assessment procedures and the intervention strategies for the successive recovery of spatial attentional deficits (such as neglect syndrome) were recollected in the past years within neuropsychological domains. However, whereas the real impact of these two distinct methodologies on the patients recovery were largely considered, no specific analysis was conducted to directly compare the long-lasting effects of these methodologies taking into account some subjective and contextual main variables, as well as it was not considered the impact of the integration between the qualitative and quantitative perspective. Firstly, from one side the effective compliance of patients in clinical specific ...
TY - JOUR. T1 - How specific is specific impairment?. AU - Bird, Héctor R.. AU - Davies, Mark. AU - Fisher, Prudence. AU - Narrow, William. AU - Jensen, Peter S.. AU - Hoven, Christina. AU - Cohen, Patricia. AU - Dulcan, Mina K.. PY - 2000/1/1. Y1 - 2000/1/1. N2 - Objective: To describe the usefulness of impairment items placed at the end of each diagnostic section of a structured instrument (the Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children Version 2.3) in an attempt to link impairment to specific diagnoses. Method: Data from 3 sites of the Methods for the Epidemiology of Child and Adolescent Mental Disorders Study were used to assess the reliability of the specific impairment measures by diagnosis, the extent to which global and specific measures of impairment impact on prevalence rates, the concordance between global and specific impairment, and the degree to which there may be a halo effect among specific impairment ratings. Results: Test-retest reliability was better for parent than youth ...
This study as you can see in the Summary/conclusion & Results slides just below did not find an association between EFV plasma levels & neurocognitive function but most patients had EFV concentrations in the normal range. But they found better neuro function - total NPZ scores, learning & language function with higher metabolite levels. As it was discussed in the Q&A - there were not very high EFV plasma levels in these pts that is why they did not see a correlation between levels & psych performance; comment by Charles Flexner - none of pts have HCV & having higher metabolite levels might be a surrogate for healthier liver & people with healthier livers tend to perform better on psychiatric performance tests. Based on comments by author in Q&A patients did not have drug abuse either ...
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Introduction/objective. It is widely accepted that researchers must have normative data that has been duly validated and culturally adapted in order to ensure that assessments of cognitive performance contain the lowest amount of contamination from other factors.1 This objective was clearly outlined for the Neuronorma Project, an extensive Spanish study that was published recently.2. Neuropsychological evaluation (NPE) for dementia may be more or less extensive and detailed depending on the complexity of the evaluation tools in use: brief scales, functional scales, simple test batteries, complex test batteries, and ideographic studies.3 The most recommendable method for performing NPE for dementia is to use a multidimensional test battery with psychometric properties including sensitive tests for each cognitive area.4 NPE is a key procedure in diagnosing, classifying, and monitoring the course of mild cognitive impairment, Alzheimers disease, and other types of dementia.5,6 The RBANS battery7 ...
TY - JOUR. T1 - The cognitive change index as a measure of self and informant perception of cognitive decline. T2 - Relation to neuropsychological tests. AU - Rattanabannakit, Chatchawan. AU - Risacher, Shannon L.. AU - Gao, Sujuan. AU - Lane, Kathleen A.. AU - Brown, Steven A.. AU - McDonald, Brenna C.. AU - Unverzagt, Frederick W.. AU - Apostolova, Liana G.. AU - Saykin, Andrew J.. AU - Farlow, Martin R.. PY - 2016/4/12. Y1 - 2016/4/12. N2 - Background: The perception of cognitive decline by individuals and those who know them well ( informants ) has been inconsistently associated with objective cognitive performance, but strongly associated with depressive symptoms.∗Objective:We investigated associations of self-report, informant-report, and discrepancy between self- and informant-report of cognitive decline obtained from the Cognitive Change Index (CCI) with cognitive test performance and self-reported depressive symptoms.∗Methods: 267 participants with normal cognition, mild cognitive ...
Abstract:While research supports the use of neuropsychological measures to predict real-world function (i.e., vocational functioning and activities of daily living) among younger and middle-aged HIV+ adults, no studies have evaluated the validity of using neuropsychological measures for this purpose among older HIV+ adults. The objective of this study was to determine whether neuropsychological measures would demonstrate comparable utility in predicting vocational functioning among younger and older HIV+ adults. Methods: All participants (N=111), including 73 younger adults (all , 35 years; M=31.32, SD=3.19) and 38 older adults (all , 50 years; M=53.79, SD=3.23), underwent comprehensive neuromedical, neuropsychological, and vocational evaluations. The neuropsychological (NP) evaluation assessed verbal skills, attention/working memory, processing speed, learning, memory, motor and abstraction/executive functioning. Vocational functioning was evaluated with the Valpar Vocational Assessment ...
Dysexecutive syndrome (DES) consists of a group of symptoms, usually resulting from brain damage, that fall into cognitive, behavioural and emotional categories and tend to occur together. The term was introduced by Alan Baddeley to describe a common pattern of dysfunction in executive functions, such as planning, abstract thinking, flexibility and behavioural control. It is thought to be Baddeleys hypothesized working memory system and the central executive that are the hypothetical systems impaired in DES. The syndrome was once known as frontal lobe syndrome, however dysexecutive syndrome is preferred because it emphasizes the functional pattern of deficits (the symptoms) over the location of the syndrome in the frontal lobe, which is often not the only area affected. Classification code in ICD-10 - F07 Symptoms of DES fall into three broad categories: cognitive, emotional and behavioural. Many of the symptoms can be seen as a direct result of impairment to the central executive component of ...
What is the purpose of neuropsychological testing? Neuropsychological tests can be helpful to determine the reasons for changes in the following areas: cognitive functioning, behavior, day-to-day tasks at work/school and/or home, and self-care (e.g., money management, ability to make personal decisions). A variety of conditions typically warrant neuropsychological testing. Here are some examples: cognitive problems of unclear cause; dementia (e.g., Alzheimers); ADHD; learning disorders; traumatic brain injury and concussions; Movement disorders (e.g., Parkinsons); multiple sclerosis; stroke and cerebrovascular disease; brain tumor; infectious diseases (e.g., Lyme disease); metabolic illness or toxin exposure; learning disorders; psychiatric disorders; and alcohol and substance use disorders. What is a neuropsychological test? Neuropsychological testing is a scientifically-based way to use paper-and-pencil and computerized tasks to assess an individuals functioning in the following domains:
TY - JOUR. T1 - Diagnostic accuracy of percent retention scores on RBANS verbal memory subtests for the diagnosis of Alzheimers disease and mild cognitive impairment. AU - Clark, Joy Humphreys. AU - Hobson, Valerie L.. AU - OBryant, Sid E.. PY - 2010/6. Y1 - 2010/6. N2 - Previous research has supported the use of percent retention scores in the neuropsychological assessment of memory, and many widely used memory measures provide for the calculation and normative comparison of these scores. The Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status (RBANS), an increasingly utilized assessment tool for cognitive impairment, provides normative data on delayed memory total raw scores only. The current study was aimed at determining the diagnostic accuracy of a novel percent retention score calculated from RBANS verbal memory subtests (delayed recall minus last learning trial) when distinguishing between normal controls, individuals diagnosed with Mild Cognitive Impairment, and ...
Background: The study of neuropsychological mechanisms is crucial for the advancement of prevention and treatment of mental disorders. However, the field of global mental health (GMH) lacks neuropsychological tools with cross-cultural applicability that can be administered in low resource settings. Technological innovations have potential to address this gap.. Objective: Our goal is twofold: (a) Adapt culturally appropriate neuropsychological tools to be delivered in tablet-based formats for South Asian adolescents at risk of suicide; (b) Develop and document an innovative technologies systematic adaptation procedure that can be applied to other GMH settings.. Aims: (1) Develop culturally appropriate stimuli for neuropsychological assessment using qualitative research with adolescents in India and Nepal. (2) Develop tablet-based versions of neuropsychological tests. (3) Pilot tablet-based administration with 50 adolescents.. Significance: The availability of valid and easy to use ...
Required for administration: A stopwatch History and Use First proposed by Swiss psychologist André Rey in 1941 and further standardized by Paul-Alexandre Osterrieth in 1944, it is frequently used to further elucidate any secondary effect of brain injury in neurological patients, to test for the presence of dementia, or to study the degree of cognitive development in children.Osterreith standardized the administration procedure, obtained normative data from 230 normal children and 60 adults, and provided interpretative guidance* visuospatial abilities, memory, attention, planning, and working memory (executive functions) Compared to Other Similar Tests The RCFT relates to other memory and visual constructional tests, such as the Token Test, BVRT total correct and RAVLT Trial 5. It assesses similar abilities and functions as the Hooper Visual Organisation Test (HVOT), Line Orientation, and Ravens Standard Progressive Matrices. However, unlike the RCFT, the latter test does not require motor ...
Neuropsychological tests are standardized tasks used to measure psychological functioning that is associated with a particular brain structure. These tests often are used in diagnosing a cognitive deficiency resulting from brain injuries. Currently, there are a limited number of studies that have focused on standardization of neuropsychological tests in Latin America. Therefore, the vast majority of cognitive tests used in the evaluation of patients with brain damage have no normative parameters adjusted to the cultural characteristics of Latinos and Latinas. As a result, neuropsychological diagnoses among this population may be inadequate, and evaluation of rehabilitation program effectiveness limited. The importance of culturally appropriate indices of neurological tests cannot be overstated; of all the problems presented by individuals with brain injuries, cognitive disorders are the leading source of disability for adequate work, family, and social reintegration among this group. There is an urgent
In this study we evaluated the correlation between neuropsychological impairment (measured with the Brief Repeatable Battery Neuropsychological Tests) and (juxta)cortical lesions detected with FLAIR and the relative sensitivity of the FLAIR sequence compared to spin-echo MRI sequences in detecting ( …
Results Mean overall score difference between DCL 1-3 and DCL 4 was significant for all tests, ranging from 14.87 points (p , 0.0001) in the Stroop word reading test to 8.3 points (p , 0.0001) in the verbal fluency test. In the DCL 1-3 group, annual change was significant for Stroop word reading (-0.99 points, p = 0.014) and for the Symbol Digit Modalities Test (-0.55 points, p = 0.008). In the DCL 4 group, annual change was significant for all UHDRS cognitive tests, changes ranging from - 0.56 (p = 0.0001) points in the verbal fluency test to -3.36 points (p , 0.0001) in the Stroop word reading test.. ...
Contemporary Approaches to Neuropsychological Assessment (see record 1997-08958-000) is an edited book with the primary objective to clearly reflect stable and changing trends in the field(p. 393). This goal is successfully accomplished in an organized, concise manner. The first half of the book includes a substantive chapter on basic psychometric concepts and issues in neuropsychological assessment. The second half of the book summarizes recent trends pertinent to neuropsychological assessment. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved) ...
Throughout my career, I have examined the utility of existing neuropsychological tests to detect, quantify, and differentially diagnose neurodegenerative diseases and other neurological conditions. However, when there were inadequate existing measures to answer clinical and research needs, I developed and published a new instrument. For example, in my early studies of post-stroke depression, there was a need for an instrument to measure various mood states in patients with aphasia and cognitive impairment. I, therefore, developed the Visual Analog Mood Scales (VAMS). In addition, based upon my training in the Process Approach to neuropsychological assessment under Dr. Edith Kaplan, I developed the Boston Qualitative Scoring System (BQSS) for the Rey-Osterreith Complex Figure (ROCF) with colleagues and trainees, thus creating a more comprehensive and sensitive method of evaluating and quantifying the rich information previously missed in previous methods of scoring the commonly used ROCF. And, ...
Methods A cross sectional study was performed on 208 workers from a paint factory who were exposed to lower mean concentrations, as per Mexican official norms, to OS mixtures, mainly of toluene and xylene. Using the cumulative index for toluene (concentration weighted in time x years working at the company), two groups were formed: one for low and one for higher high exposure. Thirteen neuropsychological tests evaluated cognitive, motor, and four evaluated affective aspects.. ...
What Is Neuropsychological Testing? Isnt neuropsychological testing a soft-science that only generates vague results?. No. During the past decade neuropsychological testing has become a very sophisticated science. Tests that are currently available are highly accurate, standardized instruments, with predictive accuracy in the 80-95% range. They are validated through clinical trials, adhering to stringent, objective measures. Neuropsychological tests provide quantifiable results that indicate the amount of deviation from base-line norms. Through a comparison of patient responses to established norms, the clinician can determine the scope and severity of cognitive impairments. Psychologists and neuropsychologists create batteries of standardized tests to answer specific referral questions. A typical battery consists of more than a dozen standardized tests and provides very specific data on a patients cognitive functioning.. What types of cases should I refer for neuropsychological testing? ...
Subtle cognitive decline (SCD) may represent a very early stage of objective cognitive impairment before mild cognitive impairment (MCI), with less neuronal damage and more functional reservation. Detecting individuals with SCD is imperative for dementia prevention and treatment. In this study, we aimed to compare the validations of three cognitive screening tests, Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), Montreal Cognitive Assessment-Chinese Version (MoCA-CV), and Memory and Executive Screening (MES), in identifying subtle cognitive decline. A total of 407 individuals were recruited, including 147 cognitively normal controls (NC), 102 individuals with subtle cognitive decline (SCD) and 158 individuals with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) according to the operational neuropsychological criteria proposed by Jak and Bondis. All participants underwent standardized comprehensive neuropsychological tests and the three cognitive screening tests. Chi-square analysis was used to compare the cognitive performance
Psychometrics in neuropsychological assessment -- Norms selection in neuropsychological assessment -- History taking -- Test selection, test administration, and preparation of the patient -- Report writing and feedback sessions -- General cognitive functioning, neuropsychological batteries, and assessment of premorbid intelligence -- Achievement tests -- Executive functions -- Attention -- Memory -- Language tests -- Tests of visual perception -- Tests of somatosensory function, olfactory function, and body orientation -- Tests of motor function -- Assessment of mood, personality, and adaptive functions -- Assessment of response bias and suboptimal performance ...
Children, adolescents, and young adults who are having difficulties with learning and overall functioning may benefit from a neuropsychological evaluation. In addition, individuals with neurological/medical diagnoses or general developmental concerns would benefit from a neuropsychological evaluation.. For more information on the neuropsychological assessments offered at Psychology Resources, please click here.. For more information on Dr. Baruch Williams, Psychology Resources neuropsychologist, please read her biography.. ...
Background: Many genes and environmental factors linked to Alzheimers disease (AD) risk affect lipid metabolism or the cardiovascular system, strongly implicating cerebrovascular and metabolic dysfunction in AD pathogenesis. Although some PUFAs may improve cognitive function in aging individuals, it is still unclear how different PUFAs influence AD neuropathology and cognitive function.. Objective: To examine the influence of polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) metabolism on AD-associated cognitive decline, we investigated the relationship between serum PUFA profile and neuropsychological test performance.. Methods: Cognitive functioning in patients with probable AD (n = 174, mean age 77.6 years) was examined using the Mini-Mental State Exam (MMSE) and clock drawing test (CDT). Serum samples were obtained for PUFA profile, including the eicosapentaenoic acid/arachidonic acid (EPA/AA) ratio, and measurement of brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) concentration. In the follow-up study, 47 subjects ...
Topamax(R) produces adverse effects on cognitive functions at rates of over 40% in subjects with epilepsy. These effects manifest as confusion, psychomotor slowing, difficulty with concentration/attention, difficulty with memory, speech or language and word-finding difficulties. Using computerized Neuropsychological Test Battery (CNTB) modules, measuring attention/concentration, verbal and visual memory, and working memory, as well as two paper and pencil processing speed tests: Symbol Digit Modalities Test (SDMT) and verbal associative fluency test (FAS), the novel extended release Topiramate formulation (SRx-502) was shown to be associated with both significantly reduced cognitive impairment and fewer reduced adverse events ...
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OBJECTIVE: A subgroup of patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) has cognitive impairments, reflected by deviant neuropsychological test performance. However, abnormal test scores can also be caused by suboptimal effort. We hypothesized that worse neuropsychological test performance and underperformance were related to each other and to a smaller reduction in fatigue, functional impairments, physical limitations and higher dropout rates following cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) for CFS. METHODS: Data were drawn from a previous trial, in which CFS patients were randomized to two conditions; 1) guided self-instruction and additional CBT (n=84) or 2) waiting period followed by regular CBT for CFS (n=85). Underperformance was assessed using the Amsterdam Short Term Memory Test (,84). To test neuropsychological test performance, the Symbol Digit Modalities Task, a simple reaction time task and a choice reaction time task were used. Interaction effects were determined between underperformance ...
The impact of heading on neuropsychological performance is a subject of controversy. In this experimental study, a controlled group design was used to investigate the possible effects of a short heading training session on neuropsychological performance. Ninety-one participants matched by age, sex, and intelligence were assigned to one of the following groups: A heading-training group, a placebo control group, and a waiting control group. All participants completed a neuropsychological test battery for attention and working memory (D2 Test, Benton Visual Retention Test, Paced Auditory Serial Addition Task Test). After 1 week, they received heading training, football (e.g., soccer) training without heading, or no training. Immediately after this training, the neuropsychological tests were conducted again. There was no neuropsychological deficit which could only be attributed to the heading training. However, within the heading group, women complained more about headache than men. Verf.-Referat ...
INTRODUCTION: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and previous history of concussion (PHC) are being reported more frequently in college athletes; the presence of these co-morbidities and their effects on concussion assessment has been somewhat limited. PURPOSE: Determine if a relationship exists between ADHD and PHC and the effect of these co-morbidities on neuropsychological test scores. METHODS: This study was a retrospective cross-sectional between groups design. D-1 college athletes (N=1840, males N=1737, females N=103) with a mean age of 19.8+1.6 years completed a computerized neuropsychological test (ImPACT) to establish baseline assessment of concussion history during pre-participation physicals. Participants were divided into groups based upon self-reported diagnosis of ADHD and PHC. Self-report symptoms and ImPACT composite scores served as dependent variables. Comparisons of groups were calculated utilizing regression models and One-Way ANOVAs. All statistical analyses ...
TY - JOUR. T1 - Performance on tests of frontal lobe function reflect general intellectual ability. AU - Obonsawin, M. C.. AU - Page, J.. AU - Chalmers, P.. AU - Cochrane, R.. AU - Low, G.. AU - Crawford, John Robertson. PY - 2002. Y1 - 2002. N2 - Recent studies have indicated that performance tin tests of frontal lobe function are highly associated with general intellectual ability (g). Some authors have even claimed that the available evidence does not support a more specific account of frontal lobe function than to provide a general intellectual function for the performance of goal directed tasks. foe examined the relationship between performance on the WAIS-R (as a measure of g) and performance on standard tests of frontal lobe function in 123 healthy individuals. Our results demonstrate that in healthy individuals (i) performance on the most popular tests of frontal lobe function shares significant variance, and (ii) a large proportion of that shared variance is highly associated with ...
TY - JOUR. T1 - Lafora disease. T2 - Spectroscopy study correlated with neuropsychological findings. AU - Pichiecchio, Anna. AU - Veggiotti, Pierangelo. AU - Cardinali, Simonetta. AU - Longaretti, Francesca. AU - Poloni, Guy U.. AU - Uggetti, Carla. PY - 2008/7. Y1 - 2008/7. N2 - Purpose: To evaluate the metabolic changes both in grey and white matter in Lafora disease using proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy and to determine the possible correlation with the pattern of cognitive impairment. Methods: Five patients with Lafora disease and six healthy controls were included in the study. Patients underwent at the same time-point neuropsychological testing and 1[H]MRS, using PRESS sequences (TE=136 and 25 ms) positioned in the frontal and posterior cingulate gyrus cortexes and in the adjacent frontal and parietal white matter. Results: Neuropsychological testing showed in all patients a prevalent involvement of performance abilities-with partial sparing of verbal competences-and of executive ...
Priming studies indicate that when a word or concept is activated in memory, and then spoken, it will activate other words or concepts which are associatively related or semantically similar to it. This evidence suggests that the order in which words are produced in the fluency task will provide an indirect measure of semantic distance between the items generated. Data from this semantic version of the task have therefore been the subject of many studies aimed at uncovering the structure of semantic memory, determining how this structure changes during normal development, or becomes disorganized through neurological disease or mental illness. These studies generally make use of multiple fluency lists in order to make estimates of the semantic distance between pairs of concepts.[19] Techniques such as multidimensional scaling and hierarchical clustering can then be used to visualize the semantic organization of the conceptual space. Such studies have generally found that semantic memory, at least ...
Seniors who consumed around 150g of cooked mushrooms weekly performed better on neuropsychological tests and had a 50% reduced risk of mild cognitive impairment compared to age-matched healthy controls.. This study was not a clinical trial so it is hard to establish causation but the researchers did see a dose-dependent effect with 75g of cooked mushrooms weekly also decreasing the risk of mild cognitive impairment.. One potential compound in mushrooms that may have brain benefits is ergothioneine. It is a unique antioxidant and anti-inflammatory compound that also accumulates in mitochondria. Humans are unable to synthesize ergothioneine on their own but it is present in a variety of mushrooms.. ...
The significant degree of heterogeneity found within the OCD population has generated recent interest in identifying and establishing subtypes of the disorder. The current study sought to examine and compare the neuropsychological performance of two purported subtypes of OCD patients, those who exhibit tics and those who do not exhibit tics. A clinical sample of 20 patients with OCD, 10 patients in each group, was recruited through two outpatient treatment centers. Patients were assessed using the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test, the Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure Test, and an adaptive decision making test. The effects of attention, intelligence, and depression were controlled for in analyses. Results indicate that OCD patients without tics demonstrate very specific neuropsychological deficits, whereas OCD patients with a history of tics demonstrate broader based deficits. With regard to executive functioning, the OCD group without tics demonstrated specific difficulty in shifting set, whereas the OCD group
TY - JOUR. T1 - Neuropsychological profile in parents of adult phenylketonuria patients. AU - Santangelo, Gabriella. AU - Piscopo, Fausta. AU - Santangelo, Franco. AU - Trojano, Luigi. PY - 2018/1. Y1 - 2018/1. N2 - Phenylketonuria (PKU) is a disorder caused by an inborn error of metabolism, causing cognitive and behavioral disorders when not treated. Heterozygotes (i.e., patients parents) were described with low verbal intelligence quotient, but no study systematically investigated cognitive functions in PKU parents. To obtain a neuropsychological profile in heterozygotes, we compared cognitive performance of heterozygotes and healthy controls (HC) on cognitive battery. Twelve heterozygotes and 14 HCs underwent standardized neuropsychological tasks assessing frontal/executive functions, memory, and visuospatial abilities. No significant difference between heterozygotes and HC was found on demographic aspects. Heterozygotes performed worse than HC on immediate verbal recall, on test assessing ...
TY - JOUR. T1 - Neuropsychological predictors of driving errors in older adults. AU - Dawson, Jeffrey D.. AU - Uc, Ergun Y.. AU - Anderson, Steven W.. AU - Johnson, Amy M.. AU - Rizzo, Matthew. PY - 2010/1/1. Y1 - 2010/1/1. N2 - Objectives: To identify neuropsychological factors associated with driving errors in older adults. Design: Cross-sectional observational study. Setting: Neuropsychological assessment laboratory and an instrumented vehicle on a 35-mile route on urban and rural roads. Participants: One hundred eleven older adult drivers (aged 65-89; mean age 72.3) and 80 middle-aged drivers (aged 40-64; mean age 57.2). Measurements: Explanatory variables included age, neuropsychological measures (cognitive, visual, and motor), and a composite cognitive score (COGSTAT). The outcome variable was the safety error count, as classified according to video review using a standardized taxonomy. Results: Older drivers committed an average of 35.8 ± 12.8 safety errors per drive, compared with an ...
Different clinical criteria for diagnosing dementia were compared in a sample of 69 patients with motor neurone disease (MND). Participants performances on a computerised battery of neuropsychological tests were evaluated to assess the usefulness of these tests in predicting dementia in MND. The results indicated that when diagnostic criteria for frontotemporal (FTD) were used as part of a questionnaire method of diagnosing dementia the incidence of dementia in MND was considerably greater than traditional estimates suggest. Through a series of logistic and multiple regressions the results demonstrated that neuropsychological test performance related well to diagnostic classifications of dementia. MND patients with a clinical diagnosis of dementia were likely to demonstrate impaired new learning; poor working memory and planning; slowness in information processing and rigidity in thinking. These features, which are typical of cases of FTD, suggest that the dementia of MND is usefully ...
TY - JOUR. T1 - Molecular markers of neuropsychological functioning and Alzheimers disease. AU - Edwards, Melissa. AU - Balldin, Valerie Hobson. AU - Hall, James. AU - OBryant, Sidney. PY - 2015/1/1. Y1 - 2015/1/1. N2 - Background: The current project sought to examine molecular markers of neuropsychological functioning among elders with and without Alzheimers disease (AD) and determine the predictive ability of combined molecular markers and select neuropsychological tests in detecting disease presence. Methods: Data were analyzed from 300 participants (n=150, AD and n=150, controls) enrolled in the Texas Alzheimers Research and Care Consortium. Linear regression models were created to examine the link between the top five molecular markers from our AD blood profile and neuropsychological test scores. Logistical regressions were used to predict AD presence using serum biomarkers in combination with select neuropsychological measures. Results: Using the neuropsychological test with the least ...
TY - CONF. T1 - Attention! Keep away from pain - neuropsychological changes in a case of pathological pain. AU - Halicka, Monika. PY - 2017/6/23. Y1 - 2017/6/23. N2 - People with unilateral pathological pain can show inattention to the affected side of the body and space, reminiscent of hemispatial neglect following brain injury. However, in pathological pain this distortion is usually subtle and it is unclear which aspects of spatial processing are affected. I will present a case-study of one 65-year old, right-handed woman who presented to our lab with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) affecting her left arm and pronounced inattention. We assessed clinical symptoms, body representation and attention to body-, reaching-, far- and imagined space. The patients data were compared to cut-off scores for standard neuropsychological tests, and to data from 12 matched controls for experimental measures. We found that the patient had a distorted cognitive representation of her affected limb. ...
Results are presented as standard scores for the Indexes and as percentile categories of low, medium, and high risk of cognitive impairment for the Process Scores.. Useful Clinical Studies. KBNA is correlated with the Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence™ (WASI™), providing valuable clinical information about the effect of general cognitive ability on KBNA subtests. KBNA is also correlated with a variety of commonly used neuropsychological tests, including the California Verbal Learning Test® (CVLT®), the California Verbal Learning Test®-Second Edition (CVLT®-II), and the Boston Naming Test.. Flexible Information. KBNA allows examiners to choose among a general overview of cognition by calculating Index Scores only, a detailed analysis of neurocognitive functioning by also calculating Process Scores, or a combination of both. The Process Scores help you break down an examinees performance into component processes, making it easier to identify strengths and weaknesses, reach a ...
The main objective of the study is to investigate the determinants of the quality of life in children and adults with Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) and more particularly the specific impact of neuropsychological deficits. In fact, cognitive impairment is currently considered as one of the most pervasive features of this genetic disorder but its relationship with the worsening of quality of life found in this population has not been directly investigated to date.. Secondary objectives of this study are (i) to compare neuropsychological and quality of life measures between patients and healthy controls matched by age, gender and education level, (ii) to contrast neuropsychological deficits incidence between patients and controls, and (iii) to differentiate NF1 childrens self versus hetero-assessment of quality of life.. The main hypothesis of this study is that the neuropsychological impairment classically identified in this clinical population will be associated to the quality of lifes ...
The main objective of the study is to investigate the determinants of the quality of life in children and adults with Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) and more particularly the specific impact of neuropsychological deficits. In fact, cognitive impairment is currently considered as one of the most pervasive features of this genetic disorder but its relationship with the worsening of quality of life found in this population has not been directly investigated to date.. Secondary objectives of this study are (i) to compare neuropsychological and quality of life measures between patients and healthy controls matched by age, gender and education level, (ii) to contrast neuropsychological deficits incidence between patients and controls, and (iii) to differentiate NF1 childrens self versus hetero-assessment of quality of life.. The main hypothesis of this study is that the neuropsychological impairment classically identified in this clinical population will be associated to the quality of lifes ...
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Repeated measurements of episodic memory are needed for monitoring amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI) and mild Alzheimers disease (AD). Most episodic memory tests may pose a challenge to patients, even when they are in the milder stages of the disease. This cross-sectional study compared floor effects of the Visual Association Test (VAT) and the Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test (RAVLT) in healthy elderly controls and in patients with aMCI or AD (N = 125). A hierarchical multiple regression analysis was used to examine whether linear or quadratic trends best fitted the data of cognitive test performance across global cognitive impairment. Results showed that VAT total scores decreased linearly across the range of global cognitive impairment, whereas RAVLT total scores showed a quadratic trend, with total scores levelling off for 90% of aMCI patients and 94% of AD patients. We conclude that the VAT shows few if any floor effects in patients with aMCI and mild AD and is therefore a ...
TY - JOUR. T1 - Cognitive impairments in multiple system atrophy. T2 - MSA-C vs MSA-P. AU - Kawai, Y.. AU - Suenaga, M.. AU - Takeda, A.. AU - Ito, M.. AU - Watanabe, H.. AU - Tanaka, F.. AU - Kato, K.. AU - Fukatsu, H.. AU - Naganawa, S.. AU - Kato, T.. AU - Ito, K.. AU - Sobue, G.. PY - 2008/4. Y1 - 2008/4. N2 - OBJECTIVE: We evaluated comprehensive neuropsychological tests and regional brain blood flow to compare cognitive dysfunction between two types of multiple system atrophy: predominant cerebellar ataxia (MSA-C) and predominant parkinsonism (MSA-P). METHODS: Twenty-one patients with MSA-C, 14 patients with MSA-P, and 21 age- and education-matched control subjects were subjected to neuropsychological tests and SPECT. The neuropsychological tests examined general cognition, verbal and visual memory, working memory, visuospatial and constructional ability, language, executive function, depression, and anxiety, while SPECT analysis examined brain perfusion. RESULTS: Patients with MSA-P ...
Participant evaluations included demographic information, medical history, neurologic examination including the United Parkinsons Disease Rating Scale to examine for extrapyramidal signs, medication/adherence history, DSM-IV-based substance abuse/dependence inventory, immunologic and virologic laboratory tests, and neuropsychiatric testing; as previously reported.27 The 80-minute neuropsychiatric test battery, adapted from the NorthEast AIDS Dementia Cohort, assessed multiple cognitive domains affected by HIV-1 and included the following: choice and sequential reaction time from the California Computerized Assessment Package, Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test (RAVLT), Rey Osterreith Complex Figure (RCF) Copy and Recall, Trail Making tests A and B, WAIS-R Digit Symbol, Grooved Pegboard (dominant and nondominant hands), Verbal fluency test, Animal Naming, Boston Naming Test, the WAIS-R Digit Span (forward and backward), and Timed Gait. Depression symptomatology was assessed using the Beck ...
TY - JOUR. T1 - Clock drawing test ratings by dementia specialists. T2 - interrater reliability and diagnostic accuracy. AU - Nair, Anil K. AU - Gavett, Brandon E. AU - Damman, Moniek. AU - Dekker, Welmoed. AU - Green, Robert C. AU - Mandel, Alan. AU - Auerbach, Sanford. AU - Steinberg, Eric. AU - Hubbard, Emily J. AU - Jefferson, Angela. AU - Stern, Robert A. PY - 2010. Y1 - 2010. N2 - The authors conducted a study of clock drawing test scoring by dementia specialists to determine interrater reliability and diagnostic accuracy. The authors randomly assigned 25 clocks from each of six predetermined groups based on consensus diagnosis (cognitive comparison subjects, subjects with a memory complaint but with normal neuropsychological testing, subjects with probable and possible mild cognitive impairment, and subjects with possible and probable Alzheimers disease) to dementia specialists for blinded scoring using a binary yes/no impairment system and a 0-10 scale as subjectively determined by each ...
Objective: To examine the influence of different performance validity test (PVT) cutoffs on neuropsychological performance, post-concussion symptoms, and rates of neurocognitive disorder and postconcussional syndrome following mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI) in active duty service members. Method: Participants were 164 service members (Age: M = 28.1 years [SD = 7.3]) evaluated on average 4.1 months (SD = 5.0) following injury. Participants were divided into three mutually exclusive groups using original and alternative cutoff scores on the Test of Memory Malingering (TOMM) and the Effort Index (EI) from the Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status (RBANS): (a) PVT-Pass, n = 85; (b) Alternative PVT-Fail, n = 53; and (c) Original PVT-Fail, n = 26 ...
TY - JOUR. T1 - Neuropsychological functioning in stimulant-naive boys with hyperkinetic disorder. AU - Rhodes, Sinéad M.. AU - Coghill, David, R. AU - Matthews, Keith. PY - 2005. Y1 - 2005. N2 - Although children with hyperkinetic disorder and/or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) show disordered executive neuropsychological functioning, the nature of these changes remains controversial. Additionally, impairments in non-executive neuropsychological functioning have been relatively unexplored. Here, the authors describe the neuropsychological functioning of a sample of stimulant drug-naive boys with hyperkinetic disorder on a battery of neuropsychological tasks sensitive to impairments of both executive and non-executive functions. Method. Seventy-five stimulant drug-naive boys meeting diagnostic criteria for ICD-10 hyperkinetic disorder were compared with 70 healthy developing controls matched for age but not IQ on computerized tests of neuropsychological functioning from the ...
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1991 Gulf War (GW) veterans continue to experience debilitating cognitive and mood problems more than two decades following their return from deployment. Suspected causes for these cognitive complaints include additive and/or synergistic effects of the varying combinations of exposures to chemicals in theater, including pesticides and pyridostigmine bromide (PB) pills. This study was undertaken to address one of the key recommendations of the US Department of Defense Environmental Exposure Report on Pesticides, which was to conduct an epidemiological study to further evaluate the role of neurotoxicant exposures in the expression of central nervous system symptoms reported by GW veterans. This study evaluated the role of pesticides and/or PB in the development of chronic neuropsychological dysfunction in GW veterans. We examined the associations between self-reported measures of pesticide and PB exposures and performance on neuropsychological tests in a group of 159 GW-deployed preventative ...
22q11.2 deletion syndrome (22q11DS) is a genetic disorder associated with a microdeletion of chromosome 22q11. In addition to high rates of neuropsychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, children with 22q11DS have a specific neuropsychological profile with particular deficits in visuospatial and working memory. However, the neurobiological substrate underlying these deficits is poorly understood. We investigated brain function during a visuospatial working memory (SWM) task in eight children with 22q11DS and 13 healthy controls, using fMRI. Both groups showed task-related activation in dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) and bilateral parietal association cortices. Controls activated parietal and occipital regions significantly more than those with 22q11DS but there was no significant between-group difference in DLPFC. In addition, while controls had a significant age-related increase in the activation of posterior brain regions and an ...
Verbal fluency tests (VFTs) are widely used frontal lobe neuropsychological tests. They have been frequently used in various functional brain mapping studies. There are two versions of VFTs based on the type of cue: the letter fluency task (LFT) and the category fluency task (CFT). However, the fundamental aspects of brain connectivity across the frontotemporal regions during the VFTs have not been elucidated. In this study, we hypothesized that differences in cortical functional connectivity over the left and right frontotemporal regions may be observed by means of multichannel functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) during the performance of LFT and CFT. Our results from fNIRS (ETG-4000) showed different patterns of brain functional connectivity during the two types of VFTs, which was consistent with the different cognitive requirements of each task. We demonstrate increased brain functional connectivity over the frontal and temporal regions during the LFT than during the CFT; these results are
In this book (see record 1995-97202-000), Derix contrasts various subcortical dementia syndromes with cortical dementias, primarily Alzheimers disease. She provides an extensive literature review of diseases affecting the subcortical structures of the brain; describes the clinical manifestations, pathology, and pathophysiology of these illnesses; and examines the results of studies concerning performance on neuropsychological tasks. In addition, she explores the reported cognitive deterioration in subcortical and cortical dementia in terms of a cognitive, neuropsychological model of information processing. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved) ...
Disruptions in hot cognition, i.e., the processing of emotionally salient information, are prevalent in most neuropsychiatric disorders and constitute a potential treatment target. EMOTICOM is the first comprehensive neuropsychological test battery developed specifically to assess hot cognition. The aim of the study was to validate and establish a Danish language version and reference data for the EMOTICOM test battery. To evaluate the psychometric properties of 11 EMOTICOM tasks, we collected data from 100 healthy Danish participants (50 males, 50 females) including retest data from 49 participants. We assessed test-retest reliability, floor and ceiling effects, task-intercorrelations, and correlations between task performance and relevant demographic and descriptive factors. We found that test-retest reliability varied from poor to excellent while some tasks exhibited floor or ceiling effects. Intercorrelations among EMOTICOM task outcomes were low, indicating that the tasks capture different ...
Neuropsychological profile in a specific cohort of HIV patients infected postnatally: a cross-sectional study Silvia Riva,1,2 Ilaria Cutica,1 Gabriella Pravettoni1,3 1Department of Health Sciences, University of Milan, 2Department of Neuroscience, IRCCS, Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche "Mario Negri", 3European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy Abstract: HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders (HANDs) are one of the most important complications of HIV infection reported in the current literature. Although HANDs have been closely studied in vertically infected HIV populations or in specific subgroups such as drug abusers or homosexuals, they have been completely understudied in hemophilia patients with HIV, infected through transfusions postnatally. For this reason, it seemed interesting to evaluate the presence of HAND in this specific population. The aim of this work is to present a study protocol aimed at assessing the neuropsychological profile of HIV+ hemophilia patients compared
Objective: Mini-mental state examination, a nonspecific measure of global cognitive function, and the clock drawing test, a very concise and specific measure of cognitive function, are among the most widely used screening tests for cognitive dysfunction. The present research aimed to examine the correspondence between MMSE and CDT scores. Methods: A total of ...
OBJECTIVE The primary purpose of this article was to determine if cognitive abilities decline, remain unchanged, or modestly improve throughout the course of schizophrenic illness. METHOD Forty-two patients with a first hospitalization for schizophrenia or schizophreniform disorder and 16 normal comparison subjects had a battery of neuropsychological tests and a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) brain scan at approximate yearly intervals for the first 2 to 5 years of illness. Summary rating scales for language, executive, memory, processing speed, and sensory-perceptual functions were constructed. RESULTS Patients with schizophrenia scored 1 to 2 standard deviations below normal comparison subjects on neuropsychological test measures during the course of the study. Patients exhibited less improvement than comparison subjects on measures of verbal memory. In general, improvement in positive symptoms over the time interval was associated with improvement in cognition. No changes in regional brain
ARE YOU CONSIDERING PSYCHOEDUCATIONAL OR NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING FOR YOUR CHILD?. Focus Childrens Therapy Center offers a wide range of testing services at our center, in school and in a childs home. We specialize in providing school based evaluations including speech and language as well as occupational therapy evaluations. Additionally we also specialize in Psychoeducational and Neuropsychological testing for all students.. Recently there has been a high demand from schools and families requesting further information on neuropsychological testing. Our highly skilled team of therapists specializing in neuropsychology are here to support you. We have put together an informational overview below to enable you to best support and communicate to families and children under your care. I hope you find this tool useful.. Neuropsychological Evaluation. A Neuropsychological evaluation is a comprehensive assessment of cognitive and behavioral functions using a set of standardized tests and ...
In the current investigation, a prototype for the remote assessment of cognitive skills, the remote neuropsychological assessment (RNA) model, was proposed, and the development and validation of a computerized, Internet-based neuropsychological assessment measure was undertaken to demonstrate the utility and effectiveness of this untapped model of assessment delivery. The Remote Neuropsychological Assessment-Category Test (RNA-CT), a test of abstract concept formation administered via the World Wide Web (WWW), was developed and contrasted with a conventional, non-computerized version of the measure---the Booklet Category Test (BCT). Traditional and novel measurement variables from both measures were compared in a randomized group design of normal college-educated subjects in an attempt to demonstrate equivalence between the conventional assessment and RNA model. Comparison of the equivalence between administration types suggests significant convergence for total error, subtest error variables, and
Schizophrenia is characterized by neuropsychological deficits across many cognitive domains. Cognitive phenotypes with high heritability and genetic overlap with schizophrenia liability can help elucidate the mechanisms leading from genes to psychopathology. We performed a meta-analysis of 170 published twin and family heritability studies of ,800 000 nonpsychiatric and schizophrenia subjects to accurately estimate heritability across many neuropsychological tests and cognitive domains. The proportion of total variance of each phenotype due to additive genetic effects (A), shared environment (C), and unshared environment and error (E), was calculated by averaging A, C, and E estimates across studies and weighting by sample size. Heritability ranged across phenotypes, likely due to differences in genetic and environmental effects, with the highest heritability for General Cognitive Ability (32%- 67%), Verbal Ability (43%-72%), Visuospatial Ability (20%-80%), and Attention/Processing Speed ...
Neuropsychological testing evaluates cognitive function, including general intelligence, attention, memory span, judgment, and motor, sensory and speech ability. Tests can also be used to assess emotional stability, quality of language production, distractibility and other qualities. These tests can document impairments that can be used to diagnose specific neurological illness or damage. For example, a selective impairment in speech production with relative sparing of performance on other tests can suggest that brain injury is localized to one of several brain areas critical for speech production. Neuropsychological tests can also be used to diagnose dementia and certain kinds of psychological conditions Two of the many neuropsychological tests which are used to test memory abilities are the California Verbal Learning Test (CVLT) and the Sternberg Memory Scan ...
While there are many neurocognitive tests on the market today (Immediate Post-Concussion Assessment and Cognitive Testing (ImPACT®), Automated Neuropsychological Assessment Metrics (ANAM), or Headminder Concussion Resolution Index (CRI) for example), there is no Gold Standard neurocognitive test to date. Having said that, the ImPACT® test was the first computerized neurocognitive test to receive FDA Approval2 and is currently the most widely used and valid neurocognitive test. During the ImPACT® test, the athlete takes the test before participation in sports. If they sustain a concussion or mild traumatic brain injury, then this test can be used to establish when the brain is ready for RTP. But wait; unfortunately, its not that easy. Neurocognitive tests, such as ImPACT®, are not as valid or specific for those with learning disabilities and attention deficit-spectrum disorders.3,4 Of the 6 composite scores of the ImPACT® test, those with learning disabilities and/or attention ...
Antipsychotics have at best small positive effects on cognitive performance. There is a lack of knowledge regarding the effects of antidepressants on cognitive functioning in these disorders. In the present study cognitive performance was investigated in relation to serum levels of antidepressants in persons with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. Serum concentrations of escitalopram, citalopram and venlafaxine plus O-desmethylvenlafaxine were measured in a total of 187 participants with bipolar disorder (N = 74) or schizophrenia spectrum disorders (N = 113), and analyzed in relation to neuropsychological tests performance of verbal learning, verbal memory, attention, working memory, executive functioning and processing speed. Analyses were performed using linear regression adjusting for a range of confounders.. There was a significant positive association between the serum level of venlafaxine plus O-desmethylvenlafaxine and verbal memory (immediate recall: Logical Memory Test immediate recall ...
TY - JOUR. T1 - Neuropsychological tests norms above age 55. T2 - COWAT, BNT, MAE Token, WRAT-R Reading, AMNART, STROOP, TMT, and JLO. AU - Ivnik, Robert J.. AU - Malec, James F.. AU - Smith, Glenn E.. AU - Tangalos, Eric G.. AU - Petersen, Ronald C.. PY - 1996/1/1. Y1 - 1996/1/1. N2 - Age- (,55 years) and education-based norms are presented for eight neuropsychological tests: COWAT, BNT, MAE Token, WRAT-R Reading, AMNART, STROOP, TMT, and JLO. These data were obtained via several research projects that are known collectively as Mayos Older Americans Normative Studies (MOANS). While this normative information should prove useful for each test, the fact that these norms were simultaneously obtained from the same reference group should promote accuracy in the comparison of any persons performance on one test against his or her functioning on any other tests with MOANS norms. Finally, the unique features of this MOANS sample are reviewed. These features must be kept in mind when these norms are ...
The primary aim of the present study was to evaluate the efficacy and stability over time of a cognitive rehabilitation protocol (restorative and compensatory approach) in HIV/AIDS patients with HIV-associated Neurocognitive Disorder (HAND). At baseline, 32 HIV/AIDS patients (16 with and 16 without HAND) were assessed with a neuropsychological battery (i.e., pre-assessment) consisting of 22 tests covering eight cognitive domains. Then, the experimental group was administered over 4 months a cognitive rehabilitation protocol aimed at improving four cognitive domains by means of eight paper and pencil/computer-based exercises. The control group received guideline-adherent clinical care (i.e., standard of care). At the end of the cognitive treatment, both groups were re-administered the neuropsychological battery (i.e., post-assessment). Additionally, 6 months after post-assessment, the experimental group was given the same neuropsychological battery (i.e., follow up-assessment). In order to test the
OBJECTIVE: To compare and validate neurocognitive tests in the Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol (HCAP) for the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS), and to identify appropriate tests to be administered in future waves of CHARLS.. METHODS: We recruited 825 individuals from the CHARLS sample and 766 subjects from hospitals in six provinces and cities in China. All participants were administered the HCAP-neurocognitive tests, and their informants were interviewed regarding the respondents functional status. Trained clinicians administered the Clinical Dementia Rating scale (CDR) to assess the respondents cognitive status independently.. RESULTS: The testing protocol took an average of 58 minutes to complete. Refusal rates for tests of general cognition, episodic memory, and language were less than 10%. All neurocognitive test scores significantly correlated with the CDR global score (correlation coefficients ranged from 0.139 to 0.641). The Mini-Mental State Examination ...
The largest, but most mysterious, sub-region of prefrontal cortex is the rostral PFC (RPFC). As a proportion of whole-brain volume, some have estimated the human RPFC to be twice as large as the corresponding region in the chimpanzee brain. Yet curiously, patients with damage restricted to the RPFC often perform well on standard neuropsychological tests, including classical tests of executive function such as the Wisconsin card sorting test. Instead, patients with damage to this region seem to have particular difficulty in real-world multitasking situations, such as organising a shopping trip when there are few strict constraints - participants are relatively free to organise their behaviour however they like - but there are also multiple instructions to be remembered, rules to be followed, and potential distractions in the environment. Recent accounts have focused on the role of RPFC in the most high-level human abilities, such as combining two distinct cognitive operations in order to ...
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"Assessment of Neuropsychological Function Through Use of the Cambridge Neuropsychological Testing Automated Battery: ... The Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery (CANTAB), originally developed at the University of Cambridge in the ... Robbins, TW; James, M; Owen, AM; Sahakian, BJ; McInnes, L; Rabbitt, P (1994). "Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated ... The CANTAB tests were co-invented by Professor Trevor Robbins and Professor Barbara Sahakian. The 25 tests in CANTAB examine ...
Tactual Performance Test Seashore Rhythm Test Speech Sounds Perception Test Finger Tapping Test Sensory Perceptual Examination ... The Halstead-Reitan Neuropsychological Test Battery (HRNB) and allied procedures is a comprehensive suite of neuropsychological ... the Finger Agnosia Test, Finger Tip Writing, the Finger Tapping Test, and the Tactual Performance Test. One difficulty with the ... Boyle, G.J. (1988). What does the neuropsychological Category Test measure? Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 3, 69-76. ...
Neuropsychological tests). ... The finger tapping test has the advantage of being a relatively ... The tapping rate is a psychological test given to assess the integrity of the neuromuscular system and examine motor control. ... Dikmen SS, Machamer JE, Winn HR, Temkin NR (1995). "Neuropsychological outcome at 1-year post head injury". Neuropsychology. 9 ... Murelius O, Haglund Y (1991). "Does Swedish amateur boxing lead to chronic brain damage? A retrospective neuropsychological ...
A neuropsychological test used in the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. The subject gets one of more digits s/he has to cross ...
"Neuropsychological Tests". WebMD. Retrieved 2017-04-03. Flynn, Erin. "What is the NFL's concussion protocol?". SI.com. ... In addition, all athletes must have baseline cognitive testing while the post-injury cognitive testing is strongly recommended ... The dementia tests that the NFL-approved process used came under scrutiny in 2021, as black players were assumed to have a ... This hypothesis was tested on adult mice; the researchers state that their brains possess similar attributes to that of human ...
Clinical neuropsychology is the application of neuropsychological knowledge to the assessment (see neuropsychological test and ... and symptom validity tests (SVT) across multiple neuropsychological contexts and disorders. These tests detect malingering by ... the Benton Visual Retention Test, and the Controlled Oral Word Association. When interpreting neuropsychological testing it is ... Standardized neuropsychological tests These tasks have been designed so the performance on the task can be linked to specific ...
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Developed for use with English-speaking patients aged 16 to 89 years, WTAR is a "hold" test, a type of neuropsychological test ... The Wechsler Test of Adult Reading (WTAR) is a neuropsychological assessment tool used to provide a measure of premorbid ... The Psychological Corporation Spreen, O., & Strauss, E. (2006). A compendium of neuropsychological tests: Administration, norms ... A Compendium of Neuropsychological Tests: Administration, Norms, and Commentary. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19 ...
The Luria-Nebraska Neuropsychological Battery (LNNB) is a standardized test that identifies neuropsychological deficiencies by ... The Luria-Nebraska has been found to be reliable and valid; it is comparable in this sense to other neuropsychological tests in ... The purpose of early neuropsychological tests was simply to determine whether or not a person had a brain injury or brain ... Golden, C. J., Berg, R. A., & Graber, B. (1982). Test-retest reliability of the Luria-Nebraska Neuropsychological Battery in ...
These tests are applied according to Neuropsychological tests. By having clinical applications, some universities develop their ... For more information about the tests, see Neuropsychological tests. Currently there are some commercial packages available for ... Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery [1]) and Universidade Federal de São Paulo (NAFW - Neuropsychological ... Computerized tests have the following main benefits: Results are obtained as soon as the tests are finished - no need to ...
Artificial neural network Cognitive test Computer-based assessment Neuropsychological test Psychological Testing Laursen P. A ... 12th Conference of the International Test Commission, London (online), July 2021. crs.dk (Neuropsychological tests). ... It is a computer-aided cognitive assessment system consisting of a battery of neuropsychological tests, administered to ... The nine tests in CFS examine various areas of cognitive function, including: Short-term and long-term verbal memory Short-term ...
The Posner cueing task, also known as the Posner paradigm, is a neuropsychological test often used to assess attention. ...
Neuropsychological tests, Cognitive tests). ... The test has been shown to have high levels of sensitivity and ... The Test of Memory Malingering (TOMM) is a 50-question visual memory recognition test that discriminates between true memory ... Lyndsey Bauer (2007). Is There a Relationship Between Personality Pathology and Performance on Symptom Validity Tests? ... It was first published in 1996 and is intended for testing individuals ages 16 and older. ...
Strauss, Esther; Sherman, Elizabeth M.; Spreen, Otfried (2006). A Compendium of Neuropsychological Tests: Administration, Norms ... The Test of Everyday Attention (TEA) is designed to measure attention in adults age 18 through 80 years. The test comprises 8 ... called the Test of Everyday Attention for Children (TEA-Ch). The TEA-Ch has 9 subsets and two parallel forms. Administration ... Essentials of Neuropsychological Assessment. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 122-. ISBN 978-0-470-53589-9. Retrieved 21 September 2013. ...
A core part of neuropsychological assessment is the administration of neuropsychological tests for the formal assessment of ... though neuropsychological testing is more than the administration and scoring of tests and screening tools. It is essential ... Most neuropsychological testing can be completed in 6 to 12 hours or less. This time, however, does not include the role of the ... Neuropsychological assessment can test many areas of cognitive and executive functioning to determine whether a patient's ...
Gasquoine, Philip G. (19 March 2009). "Race-Norming of Neuropsychological Tests". Neuropsychology Review. 19 (2): 250-262. doi: ... as well as in neuropsychological tests. The argument was that it guarantees racial balance and this was confirmed by a National ... is the practice of adjusting test scores to account for the race or ethnicity of the test-taker. In the United States, it was ... "Test Cases: How 'Race-Norming' Works". Newsweek. 2 June 1991. "NFL to halt 'race-norming,' review Black claims". ESPN. ...
... as well as in neuropsychological tests. The practice converted and compared the raw score of the test according to racial ... A test score of, say, 300 was still the same measure of test performance across all race categories. If, for instance, a black ... The General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB) is a work-related cognitive test developed by the U.S. Employment Service (USES), a ... The test was extensively reviewed by the National Academy of Science in 1989 in the report Fairness in Employment Testing. NAS ...
A Compendium of Neuropsychological Tests: Administration, Norms, and Commentary. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19 ... Additional administration criteria are provided in the Test Manual. After the patient completes the test, the examiner scores ... The Boston Naming Test (BNT), introduced in 1983 by Edith Kaplan, Harold Goodglass and Sandra Weintraub, is a widely used ... The 60-item BNT is widely used, while there are shorter versions of the test to suit the needs of the particular assessment. ...
Cognitive tests, Memory tests, Neuropsychological tests). ... and can be tested experimentally using tasks like the Wisconsin ... Card Sorting Test. Deficits in task switching are commonly observed in patients with Parkinson's disease, and in those on the ...
Neuropsychological Interpretation of Objective Psychological Tests. Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 20, 151. ISBN 978-0- ... The test is available in English and Spanish. The most recent version of this test, created by Frederick C. Markwardt Jr. and ... The test provides nine scores, one for each of the six subtests, plus Total Test score, Written Language score (Spelling & ... Another achievement test which is sometimes used instead of the PIAT-R is the Wechsler Individual Achievement Test - Third ...
Articles with short description, Short description matches Wikidata, Neuropsychological tests, Cognitive tests). ... The Purdue Pegboard Test is a psychomotor test of manual dexterity and bimanual coordination. The test involves two different ... Esther Strauss (2006). A Compendium of Neuropsychological Tests: Administration, Norms, and Commentary. Oxford University Press ... One-trial administration of the Purdue Pegboard Test produced test-retest reliability of 0.60 to 0.79. The three-trial ...
ISBN 978-0-86377-866-7. (Psychology experiments, Neuropsychological tests, Memory tests). ... Tests like the LDT that use semantic priming have found that deficits in the left hemisphere preserve summation priming while ...
ISBN 978-0-387-88963-4. v t e (Neuropsychological tests, All stub articles, Psychology stubs). ... The test was first called the "Verbal Associative Fluency Test", and then was changed to the "Controlled Word Association Test ... Patricia Espe-Pfeifer; Jana Wachsler-Felder (30 April 2000). Neuropsychological Interpretation of Objective Psychological Tests ... Controlled Oral Word Association Test, abbreviated COWA or COWAT, is a verbal fluency test that measures spontaneous production ...
... (DSST) is a neuropsychological test sensitive to brain damage, dementia, age and depression. The ... Four boxes test Lezak, M.D.; Howieson, D.B. & Loring, D.W. (2004). Neuropsychological assessment. New York: Oxford University ... Strauss, E.; Sherman, E.M.S. & Spreen, O. (2006). A compendium of neuropsychological tests: administration, norms, and ... Neuropsychological interpretation of objective psychological tests. Critical issues in neuropsychology. New York: Kluwer ...
v t e (Neuropsychology, Neuropsychological tests, All stub articles, Psychology stubs). ... The Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status is a neuropsychological assessment initially introduced ... It consists of twelve subtests which give five scores, one for each of the five domains tested (immediate memory, visuospatial/ ... May 2009). "Neuropsychological assessment of hepatic encephalopathy: ISHEN practice guidelines". Liver Int. 29 (5): 629-35. doi ...
Adams, K. M., & Heaton, R. K. (1985). Automated interpretation of the neuropsychological test data. Journal of Consulting and ... Personality test Psychological testing Rome, H. P., Swenson, W. M., Mataya, P., McCarthy, C. E., Pearson, J. S., Keating, F. R ... Computer-based test interpretation (CBTI) programs are technological tools that have been commonly used to interpret data in ... Computerized testing methods were first introduced over 60 years ago. The first program able to interpret computerized ...
Cognitive development tests Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery: The Cambridge Neuropsychological Test ... Tests administered to humans include various forms of IQ tests; those administered to animals include the mirror test (a test ... aptitude Skills tested: listening, grammar, vocabulary Test length: 50-60 minutes Test materials: reusable test booklet, ... Thought Mental chronometry Neuropsychological tests: These are standardized test which are given in the same manner to all ...
Rey is known in American neuropsychological literature for his "tests of malingering". Rey's tests of malingering include the ... Both tests are widely used in neuropsychological assessment. Rey was considered to be a pioneer in clinical psychology, child ... Rey 15-Item Memory Test (RMT), the Rey Word Recognitions Test (WRT), and the Rey Dot Counting Test (DCT). Translations of ... PhD, Richard I. Frederick (2003-01-15). "A Review of Rey's Strategies for Detecting Malingered Neuropsychological Impairment". ...
Cognitive tests, Memory tests, Perception, Neuropsychological tests, Psychophysics, Cognitive biases). ... it has become a popular neuropsychological test. There are different test variants commonly used in clinical settings, with ... Strauss, Esther; Sherman, Elizabeth M.S.; Spreen, Otfried (2006). A Compendium of Neuropsychological Tests: Administration, ... The effect has been used to create a psychological test (the Stroop test) that is widely used in clinical practice and ...
... an adolescent with ADHD presented with highly abnormal QEEG readings and attentional scores on neuropsychological tests. After ... Sherrill, R. (2004). Prior to training with the HEG device, patients are given a standardized pre test, most often the Test of ... reports were supported by decreased EEG variability and improvements on measures of neurobiological and neuropsychological ...
APA handbook of testing and assessment in psychology, Vol. 2: Testing and assessment in clinical and counseling psychology., ... Cognitive rehabilitation, also known as neuropsychological rehabilitation, refers to the broad range of evidence-based ... For example, under the Act, tests designed to measure psychological and neurocognitive function may not be released to the ... Instead of releasing the tests themselves, rehabilitation psychologists typically provide summaries of the data, interpretation ...
The sea lion team retrieved test equipment such as fake mines or bombs dropped from planes usually out of reach of divers who ... The study of about 900 Faroese children showed that prenatal exposure to methylmercury resulted in neuropsychological deficits ... Rosen, D. A.; Trites, A. W. (2000). "Pollock and the decline of Steller sea lions: Testing the junk-food hypothesis". Canadian ... There have been human health concerns associated with the consumption of dolphin meat in Japan after tests showed that dolphin ...
Dudley, Margaret; Scott, Kelly; Barker-Collo, Suzanne (2017). "Is the test of premorbid functioning a valid measure for Maori ... Ogden, Jenni A.; Cooper, Erana; Dudley, Margaret (2003). "Adapting neuropsychological assessments for minority groups: A study ... "Neuropsychological outcome and its correlates in the first year after adult mild traumatic brain injury: A population-based New ... Māori people with traumatic brain injury and their experiences of neuropsychological assessments". New Zealand Journal of ...
Blood tests are often negative in the early stages of the disease. Testing of individual ticks is not typically useful. ... Westervelt HJ, McCaffrey RJ (September 2002). "Neuropsychological functioning in chronic Lyme disease". Neuropsychology Review ... The CDC does not recommend urine antigen tests, PCR tests on urine, immunofluorescent staining for cell-wall-deficient forms of ... Unlike blood and intrathecal antibody tests, CSF pleocytosis tests revert to normal after infection ends and therefore can be ...
... neuropsychological testing and functional neuroimaging. Consequently, her work has led to a better understanding of how ... and have allowed stringent tests of different theories. She is one of the very few people in the world able to adopt a truly ...
... neuropsychological testing to assess cognitive function, sleep studies, myocardial scintigraphy, or laboratory testing to rule ... authorization for CSF testing. As of 2021, the role of these tests in clinical practice has not been established. Other tests ... such as symptoms or certain results of blood tests, neuropsychological tests, imaging, and sleep studies. A definitive ... The Frontal Assessment Battery, Stroop test and Wisconsin Card Sorting Test are used for evaluation of executive function, and ...
From neuropsychological tests, Pope found that chronic cannabis users showed difficulties, with verbal memory in particular, ... Long-term users can produce positive tests for two to three months after ceasing cannabis use (see drug test). When cannabis is ... The THC molecule, and related compounds, are usually detectable in drug tests from 3 days up to 10 days according to Redwood ... Their findings were published in the July 2003 issue of the Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society. The ...
Neuropsychological studies of a patient who could not see motion, seeing the world in a series of static "frames" instead, ... For example, the participants show no improvement when tested around other motion directions, or for other sorts of stimuli. A ... The ability of a subject to detect coherent motion is commonly tested using motion coherence discrimination tasks. For these ... Second-order motion produces a weaker motion aftereffect unless tested with dynamically flickering stimuli. The motion ...
However, there are a few exceptions to the rule as is the case with most neuropsychological conditions. Things like food, body ... Since Tulving's inception of these distinctions, several experimenters have conducted tests to determine the validity of his ... The comparison of 'close' and 'distant' groups tests semantic relatedness. 'Close' groupings have words that are related ... Category specific semantic impairments are a neuropsychological occurrence in which an individual ability to identify certain ...
In testing the behavioral effects of a frontal lobe injury, many of the tests are still very simple and do not involve greatly ... 2000). "Neuropsychological functioning in nonreferred siblings of children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder". ... Similarly, test results can be made misleading after testing the same individual over a long period of time. The subject may ... The Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST) can be used in conjunction with other tests to speculate to possible dysfunction of the ...
The testing effect allows for information to be recalled over a longer period as it is used as a self-testing tool and aids in ... 2006). London taxi drivers and bus drivers: a structural MRI and neuropsychological analysis. Hippocampus, 16, 1091-1101. ... Testing effect occurs because of the development of an adequate retrieval structure. The testing effect is different from re- ... Testing Effect is when most of the learning is allocated to declarative knowledge long term memory is enhanced, this is ...
... using specific neuropsychological tests. To test visual selective attention, a map search task was used, in which participant ... Both DLB and AD patients showed a decrease in accuracy in the test. Patients with DLB were more severely impaired in visual ... Patients with AD showed deficits in tests of visual selective attention, such as Map Search and the Stroop task. Research by ... Reduced performance on attention tests could be attributed to this deficit. Foldi et al. used a multi-target visual ...
A study of full-scale intelligence quotient (IQ) testing showed that children with TS-only had higher IQ scores, relative to ... Schuerholz LJ, Baumgardner TL, Singer HS, Reiss AL, Denckla MB (April 1996). "Neuropsychological status of children with ... in which Bart Simpson is mentioned to claimed to have Tourette's to excuse himself from a test; and an episode of South Park, " ... neuropsychological studies have identified advantages in children with TS-only. ...
Ashby, F. Gregory; Isen, Alice M.; Turken, And U. (1999). "A neuropsychological theory of positive affect and its influence on ... Shcherbatykh conducted a test with an experimental group of 28 students (of both sexes) and a control group of 102 students ( ... but is also utilized as a measurement to test the effectiveness of different therapeutic techniques (including mindfulness ...
The largest most comprehensive genetic study of its kind, involving tests of several hundred single-nucleotide polymorphisms ( ... 2002). "Historical, Psychopathological, Neurological, and Neuropsychological Aspects of Deficit Schizophrenia: A Multicenter ... lower educational test results, solitary play preferences at ages 4 and 6 years, and being more socially anxious at age 13 ...
Dennis, Jeff A. (2018). "Birth weight and maternal age among American Indian/Alaska Native mothers: A test of the weathering ... Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 18(5), 856-865. Forrester, Sarah; Jacobs, David; Zmora, Rachel; ... A population-based test of the weathering hypothesis". Social Science & Medicine. 42 (4): 589-597. doi:10.1016/0277-9536(95) ...
... outperforming in both verbal and non-verbal tests, more specifically in the non-verbal tests. In continuation of this study, ... "Neuropsychological, cognitive, and theoretical considerations for evaluation of bilingual individuals". Neuropsychology Review ... For example, a test that is widely used to assess this executive function is the Stroop task, where the word for a colour is ... For the testing of this principle, she gave children a "Moving Word Task" where a child would have to appropriately match a ...
2004). "Neuropsychological Assessment in Schools". Encyclopedia of Applied Psychology. Vol. 2. Amsterdam: Elsevier. pp. 657-664 ... Participants with lower working memory capacity perform worse on comprehension-based tests. When investigating how mind- ...
Clinical tests can be divided into two groups: those assessing monaural TFS processing capacities (TFS1 test) and those ... This is consistent with neuropsychological studies of brain-damaged patients and with the notion that the central auditory ... TFS AF: this test assesses the highest audio frequency of a pure tone up to which a change in interaural phase can be ... TFS-LF: this test assesses the ability to discriminate low-frequency pure tones that are identical at the two ears from the ...
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Several prominent tests are listed below; in each of these, the respondent determines the degree to which a given adjective or ... "A neuropsychological theory of positive affect and its influence on cognition". Psychological Review. 106 (3): 529-550. doi: ... Expanded Form of the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS-X): This test uses three main scales: joviality (how cheerful ...
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... this test measures the users visual-motor abilities as well as the ability to discern between visual stimuli. ... The Coordination Test HECOOR was inspired by the classic Trail Making Test (Reitan, 1955), and by the Vienna Test System ( ... Greenberg, L. M., Kindschi, C. L., & Corman, C. L. (1996). TOVA test of variables of attention: clinical guide. St. Paul, MN: ... Whiteside A., A synopsis of the Vienna Test System: A computer aided psychological diagnosis. JOPED, 2002, 5 (1), 41-50. ...
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  • Neuropsychological assessment. (cognifit.com)
  • It is considered that there are gaps between the development of psychological science and the amount of standardized instruments for neuropsychological assessment of patients who have suffered a stroke. (bvsalud.org)
  • Based on MEDLINE data, the following keywords were used: learning disabilities and child and cognition, and learning disabilities and child and neuropsychology - this one increased by one of the following words: test, evaluation or assessment. (bvsalud.org)
  • So, it will contribute for a more accurate process of neuropsychological assessment and rehabilitation of learning problems, always considering multidisciplinary approaches. (bvsalud.org)
  • Her areas of specialty include evaluation and diagnosis of mood and anxiety disorders, psychological testing and assessment of emotional and cognitive disorders across the lifespan. (riviamind.com)
  • Dr. Zeng's postdoctoral trainings include neuropsychological assessment and treatments for personality disorders, PTSD, schizophrenia spectrum disorders, anxiety disorders, and severe depressive disorders. (riviamind.com)
  • A neuropsychological evaluation is an assessment of how one's brain functions, which indirectly yields information about the structural and functional integrity of your brain. (centerforintegrativecounselingandwellness.com)
  • 10 , 11 The Computerized Neuropsychological Test (CNT), a computer-based standardized assessment used in clinical settings in South Korea, includes the WCST, the Stroop test, and the Trail Making test, all of which are measures that evaluate executive function. (psychiatryinvestigation.org)
  • IMSEAR at SEARO: Multi-domain cognitive screening test for neuropsychological assessment for cognitive decline in acclimatized lowlanders staying at high altitude. (who.int)
  • Interpretation & conclusions: MDCST exhibited excellent psychometric properties in terms of sensitivity, and test-retest reliability qualifying it to be used as a more effective cognitive measure for assessment of MCI in demographic studies in comparison to traditional measures. (who.int)
  • The neuropsychological assessment was carried out by means of a battery called "Esame Neuropsicologico Breve. (fondazionebrf.org)
  • Psychological evaluation and assessment services include: Cognitive testing , neurocognitive evaluation , attentional assessment, tests of executive functioning, personality functioning of children and adolescents as well as personality, neurocognitive functioning (including memory and neuropsychological status) evaluation of adults. (psychologytoday.com)
  • I AM CURRENTLY ACCEPTING CLIENTS FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING /ASSESSMENT ONLY** Hello and welcome to Prosper Psychological Services--I look forward to meeting with you! (psychologytoday.com)
  • I offer both psychological testing /assessment and individual therapy to adolescents and adults. (psychologytoday.com)
  • Forensic Psychological Testing and Evaluation is offered in: Fitness to Stand Trial, Criminal Responsibility, Mitigating Factors, Malingering, Risk Assessment, Sex Offender Evaluations/Psychosexual Evaluations, Mitigating Factors for Sex Offenders, Independent Medical Examinations (IMEs), and Expert Witness Testimony. (psychologytoday.com)
  • Although many different procedures are available for the assessment of human behavioral function, performance tests are displacing traditional diagnostic tests for ascertaining the consequences of exposure to neurotoxic chemicals. (cdc.gov)
  • We also use technology (iPad assessment apps) as well as paper-and-pencil tests if necessary (to get an even more accurate read on specific behaviors or abilities). (betterlivingbh.org)
  • Participants were excluded from the study if there was a documented history of psychiatric illness, neurologic disease, dementia, or a moderate or severe aphasia.Not applicable.Cognitive complaint as measured by the A-B Neuropsychological Assessment Schedule.Ninety percent of the patients reported some level of cognitive difficulty in everyday life. (austin.org.au)
  • The most appropriate cognitive instrument (regarding ease of completion and detecting change over time) was the Memory for Objects test from the Neuropsychological Assessment of Dementia in Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities battery. (gla.ac.uk)
  • Also, assessment tools such as intelligence, symptoms questionnaires, personality and neuropsychological tests are widely used. (themarshclinics.com)
  • The practice provides an extremely broad range of both adult and pediatric neuropsychological assessment cases with a strong, but not exclusive, forensic emphasis. (jrfoods.in)
  • I am a licensed Clinical Psychologist specializing in child and adolescent mental health and school neuropsychological assessment. (mepa.me)
  • Although the executive function subtests of the Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery (CANTAB) have been used to assess cognitive function in diverse psychiatric illnesses, few studies have verified the validity of this battery for Korean psychiatric patients. (psychiatryinvestigation.org)
  • Neuropsychological function was measured using the Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery (CANTAB). (lww.com)
  • Cognitive function was assessed using Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery and early life stress was assessed using the Childhood Traumatic Events Scale (Pennebaker & Susman, 1988). (sunderland.ac.uk)
  • Whiteside A., A synopsis of the Vienna Test System: A computer aided psychological diagnosis. (cognifit.com)
  • standardized psychological tests for the Brazilian population (4), and others do not standardized (19). (bvsalud.org)
  • At Bright Pine Behavioral Health, we offer neuropsychological and psychological testing services in Ferndale, MI for children, teens, and adults. (brightpinepsychology.com)
  • If you or someone you know is in need of neuropsychological or psychological testing services, please contact us today . (brightpinepsychology.com)
  • For example, full neuropsychological testing often takes 4-7hours to complete, while psychological testing for depression or anxiety may only take one or two hours. (brightpinepsychology.com)
  • There are a few different ways to find a qualified provider for psychological testing services. (brightpinepsychology.com)
  • We're excited to announce our expansion into psychological/neuropsychological testing and behavioral treatment! (betterlivingbh.org)
  • We're excited to announce that we've expanded our services and now offer psychological/neuropsychological testing as well as behavioral treatment! (betterlivingbh.org)
  • Psychologists are trained to administer tests that can evaluate a patient's cognitive strength and weaknesses, intellectual skills, vocational aptitude and preference, personality characteristics, and neuropsychological functioning, explains the American Psychological Association (APA). (thumbtack.com)
  • Please provide your curriculum vitae and a list of all neuropsychological and psychological tests (adult and pediatric) you are competent to administer and score will need to be submitted with CV. (jrfoods.in)
  • In general, serial testing is required to establish whether the patient's cognitive function is improving, staying stable, or progressing to full-blown clinical dementia. (medscape.com)
  • Neuropsychological testing is conducted for Dementia like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Stroke, and Head injury in the clinic. (seamlessminds.in)
  • Other tests may be ordered to find out if other problems may be causing dementia or making it worse. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Other than brain imaging studies, the most specific tests for evaluating frontotemporal lobe dementia are evaluation with standardized language batteries and neuropsychological testing. (medscape.com)
  • With regard to dementia, an important implication of this inequality is that a correct interpretation of cognitive test performance remains difficult, as the majority of cognitive tests was conceived and tested in more educated and developed countries. (biomedcentral.com)
  • A considerable number of mild TBI with negative conventional clinical neuroimaging findings develop various neuropsychological impairments mostly in the cognitive controls ( 3 , 4 ), attention ( 5 ), executive functions ( 6 ), emotion ( 7 ), working memory ( 8 ), and prospective memory ( 9 ). (frontiersin.org)
  • This study aimed at comparing neuropsychological test scores in 83 cardiologists and nurses (exposed group, EG) working in the cardiac catheterization laboratory, and 83 control participants (non exposed group, nEG), to explore possible cognitive impairments. (fondazionebrf.org)
  • The higher influence of education than age in this Brazilian population reinforce the need for caution in analyzing and diagnosing cognitive impairments based on traditional cognitive tests and the importance of searching for education-free cognitive tests, especially in low and middle-income countries. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Neuropsychological deficits, including impairments in learning and memory, occur after spinal cord injury (SCI). (umaryland.edu)
  • We are proud to offer neuropsychological testing at these locations. (grwhealth.com)
  • In the current study, 50 patients with mild TBI received resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging as well as neuropsychological assessments within 7 days post-injury (acute phase) and 1 month later (subacute phase). (frontiersin.org)
  • 3 Recently, efforts have been made to appraise neurocognitive deficits more efficiently and precisely by adapting traditional neuropsychological tests into computerized assessments that more accurately measure reaction times or use complex automated scoring systems. (psychiatryinvestigation.org)
  • I provide formal assessments and have experience testing for mood disorders, learning disabilities, ADHD, and trauma. (psychologytoday.com)
  • In parallel, I offer cross-battery school neuropsychological assessments through standardized testing for pre-school and school-aged children and adolescents and work closely with schools and families to address the needs of students with academic and personal challenges. (mepa.me)
  • TOVA test of variables of attention: clinical guide. (cognifit.com)
  • We compared the predictive performance of linguistic variables with clinical and neuropsychological variables. (thelancet.com)
  • How extensive should clinical and neuropsychological (NP) testing be at non-elite level? (bmj.com)
  • Recent research has documented the psychometric properties of neuropsychological tests and primary endpoints commonly used in clinical trials and studies of prodromal Alzheimer's disease (pAD). (cambridgecognition.com)
  • During the process, the patient will be tested on their ability to plan, figure out abstract conceptions, as well as conceptualization. (wikimonks.com)
  • It should be noted that variation in testing results is quite high between laboratories (Jikomes and Zoroob, 2018). (poppot.org)
  • Therefore, this preliminary study evaluated the construct and concurrent validity of the executive function subtests of the CANTAB for Korean psychiatric patients by comparing it with subtests of the Computerized Neuropsychological Test (CNT). (psychiatryinvestigation.org)
  • A significantly higher percentage of CFS subjects versus controls exhibited evidence of neuropsychological impairment (defined by performance 1 standard deviation below the CANTAB normative mean) in tasks of motor speed and spatial working memory. (lww.com)
  • This study, the results of which we presented at CTAD 2016, looked at the traditional psychometric properties of CANTAB tests for use in a prodromal Alzheimer's disease population. (cambridgecognition.com)
  • Here we extended this analysis to include a broader range of cognitive measures using the CANTAB neuropsychological battery that taps into distinct aspects of cognition. (cambridgecognition.com)
  • The properties of the CANTAB tasks were evaluated using traditional psychometric methods, including floor and ceiling effects, test-retest reliability and construct validity, at screening and baseline (up to eight weeks apart). (cambridgecognition.com)
  • Interested in learning more about the psychometric properties of cognitive endpoints from the CANTAB test battery in a prodromal Alzheimer's disease population? (cambridgecognition.com)
  • The neurologist could also refer the patient out for neuropsychological testing if the patient is experiencing or showing signs of cognitive deficits after the Illinois brain injury car accident or slip and fall. (cookcountybraininjurylawyer.com)
  • The Coordination Test HECOOR was inspired by the classic Trail Making Test (Reitan, 1955), and by the Vienna Test System (Whiteside, 2002). (cognifit.com)
  • Objective: With the ultimate goal of providing a monitoring tool that could be used to support the screening for cognitive decline, this study aims to develop a supervised, digitized version of 2 neuropsychological tests: Trail Making Test and Bells Test. (polimi.it)
  • The Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST), the Tower of Hanoi test, the Stroop test, the Trail Making Test, the Controlled Oral Word Association test, and the verbal fluency test are widely used as measures of executive function. (psychiatryinvestigation.org)
  • In the combined-years' analyses, the three groups showed statistically significant differences only on the Trail Making Test: LSD/mescaline users performed within normal limits but significantly worse than either of the other two groups. (erowid.org)
  • Since the three groups also differed significantly in the extent Cal their alcohol usage, a covariance analysis was carried out that indicated that this variable did not account for the LSD/mescaline group's performance on the Trail Making Test Inference about possible organic dysfunction cannot be drawn from these find-ings, but prospective neuropsychological testing might prove useful. (erowid.org)
  • Cognitive tests included the word memory tests (retention, recall and recognition), verbal fluency tests (VFT, animals and letter F) and Trail Making Test B. Multivariable linear regression analysis was used to determine the influence of sociodemographic characteristics on the distribution of the final score of each test. (biomedcentral.com)
  • To make sure that Decoder improved focussed attention and concentration with out impairing the power to shift attention, the researchers also tested contributors' skill on the Trail Making Test. (sthelenaschurch.org)
  • CFS is associated with symptoms of neuropsychological dysfunction. (lww.com)
  • CSF testing for Zika virus, performed emission computed tomography and neuropsychological at the Wadsworth Laboratory, New York City Department testing raised the possibility that Zika virus infection may lead to neuropsychiatric and cognitive symptoms. (cdc.gov)
  • The results showed that amnesia for a violent offense was associated with crimes of passion and dissociative symptoms at the time, but not with impaired neuropsychological functioning. (jaapl.org)
  • Half of the participants in the test set developed AD symptoms before 85 years old, while the other half did not. (thelancet.com)
  • These neuropsychological evaluations can be helpful for those experiencing age-related memory decline, concerns about Autism or developmental disabilities, or those with symptoms related to Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, stroke, or traumatic brain injury. (betterlivingbh.org)
  • The positive symptoms of thought disorder and hallucinations were most consistently related to neuropsychological variables. (elsevier.com)
  • In contrast with other findings in the literature, negative symptoms were not significantly correlated with neuropsychological performance. (elsevier.com)
  • There are no stipulated neuropsychological tests for patients with MCI, nor are there predetermined cutoff points (eg, 1.0, 1.5, or 2 standard deviations below the mean). (medscape.com)
  • The longitudinal changes of caudate-based dysfunction connectivity could serve as a neuroimaging biomarker following patients with mild TBI, with the evidence that the abnormal caudate-based functional connectivity at acute phase have returned to the normal level accompanying with the recovery of the neuropsychological syndromes following patients with mild TBI at subacute phase. (frontiersin.org)
  • For patients experiencing treatment-resistant depression or chronic neuropathic pain, neuropsychological testing is essential. (grwhealth.com)
  • We are currently offering neuropsychological testing for age 18+ patients living in New York. (riviamind.com)
  • The tests given to the patients are standardized, which means they all have similar questions and parameters. (wikimonks.com)
  • Tannen B, Rogers J, Ciuffreda K, Lyon E, Shelley-Tremblay J. (2016) Distance horizontal fusional facility (DFF): A proposed new diagnostic test for concussion patients. (southalabama.edu)
  • The computerized tests detected significantly larger numbers of patients with worsened results than the conventional tests. (elsevier.com)
  • Neurological function was evaluated using a battery of neurobehavioral tests including motor function, cognition, and depression. (umaryland.edu)
  • Dr. Ploetz' research interests include performance and symptom validity testing in pediatric populations, as well as evaluating neuropsychological outcomes following pediatric brain injury. (kennedykrieger.org)
  • Neuropsychological testing is highly specialized testing performed by a neuropsychologist to identify and provide objective medical evidence of cognitive dysfunction. (diattorney.com)
  • One of the seeming paradoxes of frontal lobe dysfunction is that informants may complain about the patient's "inability to do anything," yet on at least cursory mental status testing, the patient appears normal or only mildly impaired. (medscape.com)
  • Dysfunction of parts of the frontal lobe is sometimes associated with aphasia or severe impairment of attention and can make formal neuropsychologic testing or neurobehavioral evaluation problematic. (medscape.com)
  • Many commonly used brief mental state tests, including the Mini-Mental State Examination, are not designed to test frontal lobe function-they are insensitive and not specific to frontal lobe dysfunction. (medscape.com)
  • Decoder efficiency additionally improved on this commonly used neuropsychological check of attentional shifting. (sthelenaschurch.org)
  • Results of crude and multivariate analyses among 35 exposed and 28 unexposed subjects showed no association between prenatal and early postnatal exposure and decrements on tests that assess abilities in the domains of omnibus intelligence, academic achievement or language. (nih.gov)
  • Regarding this subject, it was held a systematic review in order to examine which neuropsychological instruments have been used to assess learning disabilities (LD), as well as to identify which are the main evaluated samples. (bvsalud.org)
  • Our premier neuropsychological testing services are used to assess how well the brain functions. (brightpinepsychology.com)
  • This proposal aims to assess cognitive decline, using a battery of neuropsychological tests and neuroimaging measures, to advance our understanding of premature cognitive decline and its neurobiological mechanisms among the youngest first-responders to hopefully contribute to the development of early interventions. (cdc.gov)
  • The ELSA-Brasil, a cohort study, aimed at investigating cardiovascular diseases and diabetes, offers a great opportunity to assess cognitive decline in this aging population through time-sequential analyses drawn from the same battery of tests over time. (biomedcentral.com)
  • We sometimes recommend and conduct neuropsychological tests as part of our comprehensive evaluation and diagnosis . (riviamind.com)
  • Neuropsychological testing research and diagnosis. (southalabama.edu)
  • Background Neuropsychological tests can provide crucial information regarding the consideration of psychiatric differential diagnosis. (bvsalud.org)
  • Neuropsychological testing helps us understand the relationship between the brain and behavior. (grwhealth.com)
  • We present neuropsychological data obtained from 118 HIV+ adults with advanced HIV disease, 35 of whom were co-infected with HCV, who completed a comprehensive neurocognitive evaluation. (healthpartners.com)
  • In this study, 50 violent offenders were interviewed with neuropsychological and psychometric measures, to determine the factors that underlie amnesia and the recovery of memory in these cases. (jaapl.org)
  • An Mormon migration for guidelines aging a effective guide in chance indicators as available as system, Springboard, methodology, and neuropsychological challenges: excessive environment no has and has the as Isokinetic pediatric perspective. (ecotec-entwicklung.de)
  • CNS) infection with Zika virus associated with the onset of edition, General Ability Index), probably reflecting func- neuropsychological and cognitive changes in an adolescent. (cdc.gov)
  • The aim of this study was to investigate the neuropsychological instruments used in people who have suffered stroke. (bvsalud.org)
  • In addition to professional expertise in behavioral treatment, we now offer a wide range of neuropsychological services for children and adults in need of diagnoses and reassessment. (betterlivingbh.org)
  • A pattern of deteriorating performance on psychophysiological tests as well as injuries while working long hours was observed across study findings, particularly with very long shifts and when 12-hour shifts combined with more than 40 hours of work a week. (cdc.gov)
  • By conducting a series of standardized evaluations, typically in the form of pen-and-paper style tests, neuropsychologists develop a complete understanding of how key areas of a patient's brain functions. (grwhealth.com)
  • Methods: To deploy the system in a nonsupervised environment, extensive functional testing of the platform was conducted, together with a validation of the tablet-based tests. (polimi.it)
  • Performance history included mild depression treated with a selective on most memory tests and tests of executive function serotonin reuptake inhibitor. (cdc.gov)
  • We assessed the cognitive performance and probable occurrence of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) in acclimatized lowlanders (ALL) staying at altitudes above 4,300 m for duration above 12 months and validated a multi-domain cognitive screening test (MDCST) for future demographic studies on MCI. (who.int)
  • Neuropsychological testing is an analysis of how one's brain performs, which implicitly provides knowledge about the brain's structural and functional integrity. (seamlessminds.in)
  • Although much cognitive and behavioral research was already moving toward remote testing before the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak, progress in this field needs to be accelerated. (jmir.org)
  • Test variables were related to Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale ratings and two behavioral measures of ward functioning, points and activities. (elsevier.com)
  • Spearman correlations of test variables with the symptom and behavioral measures were entered into a series of median polish analyses. (elsevier.com)
  • Neuropsychological test variables that were most highly correlated with symptom/ behavioral measures were LNNB Left Frontal, Memory, and Intellectual Processes scales. (elsevier.com)
  • Learn more about Odesky Ilyse Neuropsychological Testing Center, a(n) Psychologist in Springfield, NJ. (knowcancer.com)
  • Neuropsychological testing is a vital component of neurofeedback treatment. (wikimonks.com)
  • When you go to a place that does neuropsychological testing in Colorado Springs, one of the recommended solutions is neurofeedback treatment. (wikimonks.com)
  • Neuropsychological testing includes questioning and administering examinations. (seamlessminds.in)
  • A replay functionality is added to allow inspection of the user's performance after test completion. (polimi.it)
  • This population-based retrospective cohort study examined adult performance on a battery of neuropsychological tests in relation to prenatal and early postnatal exposure to tetrachloroethylene (PCE)-contaminated drinking water on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. (nih.gov)
  • The results were suggestive of an association between prenatal and early postnatal PCE exposure and diminished performance on tests that assessed abilities in the domains of visuospatial functioning, learning and memory, motor, attention and mood. (nih.gov)
  • Neuropsychological Performance in Persons With Chronic Fatig. (lww.com)
  • Objective measures of neuropsychological performance have yielded inconsistent results possibly due to sample selection bias, diagnostic heterogeneity, comorbid psychiatric disorders, and medication usage. (lww.com)
  • More severely burdened or frail caregivers had worse cognitive performance than those who were not, respectively (ANOVA test). (scielo.br)
  • The purpose of this study is to analyze the influence of sex, age and education on cognitive tests performance of the participants at baseline. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Women had significant and slightly higher scores than men in all memory tests and VFT, but took more time to perform Trail B. Reduced performance in all tests was seen with an increase age and, more importantly, with decrease level of education. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Overtime was associated with unhealthy weight gain in two studies, increased alcohol use in two of three studies, increased smoking in one of two studies, and poorer neuropsychological test performance in one study. (cdc.gov)
  • Test re-test was lower for DMS and PRM, the latter partly reflecting the change in performance (ceiling effects) from Screening to Baseline. (cambridgecognition.com)
  • A significant genotype-trauma interaction was found in Rapid Visual Information Processing test, a measure of sustained attention, with CC carriers who had experienced early life stress exhibiting impaired performance compared to the CC carriers without early life stressful experiences. (sunderland.ac.uk)
  • Consideration for the classification of developmental disorders and the educational supports using neuropsychological test. (nii.ac.jp)
  • Concerning the educational supports for children with developmental disorders, some examples of practical applications of the neuropsychological tests were presented. (nii.ac.jp)
  • Computerized test battery (CogState™) and conventional neuropsy- chological tests (serial seven-word learning test and mini-mental state examination) were examined be- fore, 1 month after, and 3 months after surgery. (elsevier.com)
  • La media en el Mini Examen del Estado Mental fue de 23,59, desvío patrón 5,21. (bvsalud.org)
  • Is there a role for additional tests (eg, structural and/or functional MRI, balance testing, biomarkers)? (bmj.com)
  • This study was performed in order to examine the cognitive abilities of children with attention-deficit / hyperactivity disorder (AD/HD) and pervasive developmental disorder (PDD) by using the neuropsychological test. (nii.ac.jp)
  • Please note, we do not conduct testing for minors or for diagnosing autism spectrum disorder. (riviamind.com)
  • The schizophrenia group performed significantly more poorly on the IED and the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST) compared with the bipolar disorder group. (psychiatryinvestigation.org)
  • However, clinicians use the results from standardized memory and cognitive tests to determine whether these data represent significant changes from a patient's presumed baseline. (medscape.com)
  • The patient will also be tested on their attention span, the way they perceive things, sensorimotor functions, their memory, and their grasp of the language. (wikimonks.com)
  • However, the scores of one computerized test battery and serial seven- word learning tests decreased significantly 1 month after surgery and recovered within 3 months, in- dicating temporary deterioration of short-term memory in the middle fossa group. (elsevier.com)
  • Test re-test (Screening to Baseline) was good for episodic memory (PAL ), processing speed (RTI), sustained attention (RVP) and the composite memory score ranging from 0.63 to 0.76. (cambridgecognition.com)
  • Thirty-nine hospitalized chronic schizophrenics were administered the Luria-Nebraska Neuropsychological Battery (LNNB) and the Weschler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised when they were clinically stable. (elsevier.com)
  • Nevertheless, neuropsychological evaluation in the context of LD detection should be deeper in a quantitative and qualitative way, because its results are still insufficiently interpreted. (bvsalud.org)
  • They will conduct an initial virtual evaluation to see if you're the right candidate and what type of testing would be beneficial. (riviamind.com)
  • The neuropsychological evaluation involves an interview and the administration of tests. (centerforintegrativecounselingandwellness.com)
  • Articles were included only if presented empirical study, evaluated LD with neuropsychological instruments, assessed children and had been written in Portuguese, Spanish or English. (bvsalud.org)
  • The study included 703 samples from 270 participants out of which a dataset consisting of a single sample from 80 participants was held out for testing. (thelancet.com)
  • Simple enough, except that each study reported multiple outcome measures (e.g. several different neuropsychological tests). (areshenk-research-notes.com)
  • However, neuropsychological testing is not limited to people with depression or anxiety or those dealing with PTSD or substance abuse. (wikimonks.com)
  • To examine the neuropsychological function characterized in subjects with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) at the same time controlling for relevant confounding factors. (lww.com)
  • For instance, if the patient experiences fatigue or confusion during the neuropsychological testing, the professional should slow down or schedule the session for another time. (wikimonks.com)
  • Future studies with larger sample sizes should be conducted to further define the neuropsychological consequences of early developmental PCE exposure. (nih.gov)