Neuropsychological Tests

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Cognitive consequences of early phase of literacy.

The effect of the degree of illiteracy (complete or incomplete) on phonological skills, verbal and visual memory and visuospatial skills is examined in 97 normal Brazilian adults who considered themselves illiterate, and 41 Brazilian school children aged ...
Georges Dellatolas, Lucia Willadino Braga, Ligia do Nascimento Souza, Gilberto Nunes Filho, Elizabeth Queiroz, Gerard Deloche (J Int Neuropsychol Soc, 200307)
cognitive-consequences-early-phase-literacy.asp

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Relationship between positive and negative symptoms and neuropsychological scores in frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimers disease.

Patients with dementia, particularly those with frontotemporal dementia (FTD), are reported to display marked negative symptoms, including apathy, lack of initiative, and flattened affect, similar to those observed in schizophrenic patients. However, ...
Kyle Brauer Boone, Bruce L Miller, Randolph Swartz, Po Lu, Alison Lee (J Int Neuropsychol Soc, 200307)
relationship-positive-negative-symptoms-neuropsychological-scores.asp

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Impulsivity and verbal deficits associated with domestic violence.

While neurobiological factors are known to play a role in human aggression, relatively few studies have examined neuropsychological contributions to propensity for violence. We previously demonstrated cognitive deficits among men who committed domestic ...
Ronald A Cohen, Virdette Brumm, Tricia M Zawacki, Robert Paul, Lawrence Sweet, Alan Rosenbaum (J Int Neuropsychol Soc, 200307)
impulsivity-verbal-deficits-associated-domestic-violence.asp

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Cognitive reserve modulates functional brain responses during memory tasks: a PET study in healthy young and elderly subjects.

Cognitive reserve (CR) is the ability of an individual to cope with advancing brain pathology so that he remains free of symptomatology. Epidemiological evidence and in vivo neurometabolic data suggest that CR may be mediated through education or IQ. The ...
Nikolaos Scarmeas, Eric Zarahn, Karen E Anderson, John Hilton, Joseph Flynn, Ronald L Van Heertum, Harold A Sackeim, Yaakov Stern (Neuroimage, 200307)
cognitive-reserve-modulates-functional-brain-responses-memory-tasks.asp

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The effects of age and domain knowledge on text processing.

The author investigated age differences in the effects of knowledge during encoding by comparing time allocated to naturalistic domain-related (cooking) and general texts among young and older adults with varying levels of (cooking) knowledge. ...
Lisa M Soederberg Miller (J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci, 200307)
effects-age-domain-knowledge-text-processing.asp

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Neuropsychological deficits associated with Alzheimers disease in the very-old: discrepancies in raw vs. standardized scores.

The profiles of neuropsychological deficits associated with Alzheimers disease (AD) in Young-Old (M age and 70) and Very-Old (M age > 80) patients were compared, along with possible modifying effects of apolipoprotein E (APOE) genotype on these profiles. ...
Mark W Bondi, Wes S Houston, David P Salmon, Jody Corey-Bloom, Robert Katzman, Leon J Thal, Dean C Delis (J Int Neuropsychol Soc, 200307)
neuropsychological-deficits-associated-alzheimer-s-disease-old.asp

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Neural correlates of memories of abandonment in women with and without borderline personality disorder.

BACKGROUND: Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a common psychiatric disorder that is often linked to early stressors. One particularly salient feature of the disorder is fear of abandonment. This pilot study was conducted to measure neural ...
Christian G Schmahl, Bernet M Elzinga, Eric Vermetten, Charles Sanislow, Thomas H McGlashan, J Douglas Bremner (Biol Psychiatry, 200307)
neural-correlates-memories-abandonment-women-borderline-personality.asp

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Cognitive impairments in early Parkinsons disease are accompanied by reductions in activity in frontostriatal neural circuitry.

Studies in patients with Parkinsons disease (PD) suggest that the characteristic motor symptoms of the disorder are frequently accompanied by impairments in cognition that are most profound in tasks of executive function. Neuropsychological deficits are ...
Simon J G Lewis, Anja Dove, Trevor W Robbins, Roger A Barker, Adrian M Owen (J Neurosci, 200307)
cognitive-impairments-early-parkinson-s-disease-accompanied.asp

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Task-set switching deficits in early-stage Huntingtons disease: implications for basal ganglia function.

Executive functions are likely mediated by interconnected circuits including frontal lobe and basal ganglia structures. We assessed the executive function of task switching in patients with early-stage Huntingtons disease (HD), a neurodegenerative ...
Adam R Aron, Laura Watkins, Barbara J Sahakian, Stephen Monsell, Roger A Barker, Trevor W Robbins (J Cogn Neurosci, 200307)
task-set-switching-deficits-early-stage-huntington-s-disease.asp

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Treating depression in Alzheimer disease: efficacy and safety of sertraline therapy, and the benefits of depression reduction: the DIADS.

CONTEXT: Major depression affects about 25% of the patients who have Alzheimer disease and has serious adverse consequences for patients and caregivers. Results of prior antidepressant treatment studies have produced contradictory findings and have not ...
Constantine G Lyketsos, Lourdes DelCampo, Martin Steinberg, Quincy Miles, Cynthia D Steele, Cynthia Munro, Alva S Baker, Jeannie-Marie E Sheppard, Constantine Frangakis, Jason Brandt, Peter V Rabins (Arch Gen Psychiatry, 200307)
treating-depression-alzheimer-disease-efficacy-safety-sertraline.asp