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Mini-mental state examination and mental deterioration battery: analysis of the relationship and clinical implications.

OBJECTIVES: To explore the associative structure between a screening test for dementia, the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), and a neuropsychological battery for the detection of dementia, the Mental Deterioration Battery (MDB). DESIGN: A ...
Patrizio Pasqualetti, Filomena Moffa, Paola Chiovenda, Giovanni A Carlesimo, Carlo Caltagirone, Paolo M Rossini (J Am Geriatr Soc, 200209)
mini-mental-state-examination-mental-deterioration-battery-analysis.asp

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Training of working memory in children with ADHD.

Working memory (WM) capacity is the ability to retain and manipulate information during a short period of time. This ability underlies complex reasoning and has generally been regarded as a fixed trait of the individual. Children with attention deficit ...
Torkel Klingberg, Hans Forssberg, Helena Westerberg (J Clin Exp Neuropsychol, 200209)
training-working-memory-children-adhd.asp

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Aggregation in memory of episodic influences on rule-guided decisions.

The authors confirmed E. Z. Rothkopf and M. L. Dashens (1995) finding that specific problem context, such as thematic surface features, forms associative connections with deep problem features and thus speeds particular decisions (particularization). In ...
Ernst Z Rothkopf, Monica Dashen, Teft Kim (J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn, 200209)
aggregation-memory-episodic-influences-rule-guided-decisions.asp

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Neuropsychological profiles delineate distinct profiles of schizophrenia, an interaction between memory and executive function, and uneven distribution of clinical subtypes.

Neuropsychological performance in 151 patients with schizophrenia was examined using cluster analysis to identify neurocognitive subtypes. Hierarchical and iterative partitioning methods identified four clusters using an extended neuropsychological ...
S Kristian Hill, J Daniel Ragland, Ruben C Gur, Raquel E Gur (J Clin Exp Neuropsychol, 200209)
neuropsychological-profiles-delineate-distinct-profiles-schizophrenia.asp

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Time course of cognitive recovery after propofol anaesthesia: a level of processing approach.

The aim of this study was to investigate the time course of recovery of verbal memory after general anaesthesia, as a function of the level (shallow or deep) of processing induced at the time of encoding. Thirty-one patients anaesthetized with propofol ...
Bernard NKaoua, Anne-Lise H Véron, Véronique C Lespinet, Bernard Claverie, François Sztark (J Clin Exp Neuropsychol, 200209)
time-course-cognitive-recovery-after-propofol-anaesthesia-level.asp

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Iron metabolism and the risk of restless legs syndrome in an elderly general population--the MEMO-Study.

BACKGROUND: Low iron and ferritin blood levels have been observed in patients with Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS) with an inverse relation between symptom severity and ferritin level. All reports are based on single cases or case series of hospitalized ...
Klaus Berger, Arnold von Eckardstein, Claudia Trenkwalder, Andreas Rothdach, Ralf Junker, Stephan Karl Weiland (J Neurol, 200209)
iron-metabolism-risk-restless-legs-syndrome-elderly-general.asp

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Can segregation within the semantic system account for category-specific deficits?

Functional neuroimaging was used to investigate the extent to which category-specific semantic deficits in patients can be accounted for in terms of the demands placed on neural systems underlying different types of semantic knowledge. Unlike previous ...
Jacqueline A Phillips, Uta Noppeney, Glyn W Humphreys, Cathy J Price (Brain, 200209)
segregation-semantic-system-account-category-specific-deficits.asp

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Cognitive findings in spinocerebellar ataxia type 2: relationship to genetic and clinical variables.

Several authors have recently reported a broad cognitive impairment in autosomal dominant cerebellar ataxias (ADCAs) patients. However, only a few studies on neuropsychological features in spinocerebellar ataxia type 2 (SCA2) patients are present in the ...
Francesco Le Pira, Giuseppe Zappalà, Riccardo Saponara, Elisabetta Domina, Domenico Restivo, Ester Reggio, Alessandra Nicoletti, Salvatore Giuffrida (J Neurol Sci, 200209)
cognitive-findings-spinocerebellar-ataxia-type-relationship-genetic.asp

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Stimulus modality and verbal learning performance in normal aging.

The present study investigated the effects of modality presentation on the verbal learning performance of 26 older adults and 26 younger cohorts. A multitrial free-recall paradigm was implemented incorporating three modalities: Auditory, Visual, and ...
Fofi Constantinidou, Susan Baker (Brain Lang, 200209)
stimulus-modality-verbal-learning-performance-normal-aging.asp

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Understanding the practical advantages of modern ANOVA methods.

Examined the fundamental problems associated with standard hypothesis testing techniques. This article explains why many articles have failed to detect problems due to nonnormality and discusses the basics of modern methods aimed at correcting these ...
Rand R Wilcox (J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol, 200209)
understanding-practical-advantages-modern-anova-methods.asp