Neuropsychological Tests

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Motor-related functional subdivisions of human lateral premotor cortex: epicortical recording in conditional visuomotor task.

OBJECTIVE: To clarify the functional subdivisions of the human lateral premotor cortex (PM) in the visuomotor control. METHODS: Event-related potentials (ERPs) were epicortically recorded from PM in 5 epilepsy patients. S1-Go/NoGo choice delayed reaction ...
Riki Matsumoto, Akio Ikeda, Shinji Ohara, Masao Matsuhashi, Kouichi Baba, Fumitaka Yamane, Tomokatsu Hori, Tadahiro Mihara, Takashi Nagamine, Hiroshi Shibasaki (Clin Neurophysiol, 200306)
motor-related-functional-subdivisions-human-lateral-premotor-cortex.asp

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Neurocognitive effects of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in severe major depression.

OBJECTIVE: Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) is being investigated as a potential treatment for depression. Few studies have addressed the neurocognitive effects of a course of rTMS in severely depressed patients. We evaluated ...
Brian Martis, Danesh Alam, Sheila M Dowd, S Kristian Hill, Rajiv P Sharma, Cherise Rosen, Neil Pliskin, Eileen Martin, Valorie Carson, Philip G Janicak (Clin Neurophysiol, 200306)
neurocognitive-effects-repetitive-transcranial-magnetic-stimulation.asp

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Presence of behavioral and psychological symptoms predicts nursing home placement in community-dwelling elders with cognitive impairment in univariate but not multivariate analysis.

BACKGROUND: The role of behavioral and psychological symptoms as an independent risk factor of nursing home placement (NHP) in cognitively impaired elders has been controversial. METHODS: A community sample of 449 cognitively impaired elders and their ...
Ding-Cheng Chan, Judith D Kasper, Betty S Black, Peter V Rabins (J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci, 200306)
presence-behavioral-psychological-symptoms-predicts-nursing-home.asp

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The costs of doing two things at once for young and older adults: talking while walking, finger tapping, and ignoring speech or noise.

Young and older adults provided language samples in response to questions while walking, finger tapping, and ignoring speech or noise. The language samples were scored on 3 dimensions: fluency, complexity, and content. The hypothesis that working memory ...
Susan Kemper, Ruth E Herman, Cindy H T Lian (Psychol Aging, 200306)
costs-doing-two-things-once-young-older-adults-talking-walking-finger.asp

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Analysis of outcome in retrieved dropout patients in a rivastigmine vs placebo, 26-week, Alzheimer disease trial.

BACKGROUND: Treatment with cholinesterase inhibitors improves cognition in patients with Alzheimer disease (AD). In studies designed with a washout period at the end of the study, after treatment with a cholinesterase inhibitor is discontinued, the ...
Martin Farlow, Steven Potkin, Barbara Koumaras, Jeffrey Veach, Dario Mirski (Arch Neurol, 200306)
analysis-outcome-retrieved-dropout-patients-rivastigmine-vs-placebo-.asp

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Rhythmic oscillations in the performance of a sustained attention task.

Attempts to sustain a narrow focus of attention over a long period of time are effortful and are punctuated by lapses. Most studies of sustained attention performance obscure the presence and pattern oflapses by reporting measures that are summed across ...
Kevin J Smith, Dominic A Valentino, James E Arruda (J Clin Exp Neuropsychol, 200306)
rhythmic-oscillations-performance-sustained-attention-task.asp

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Cognitive screening in the primary care setting. The role of physicians at the first point of entry.

There are many reasons why it is important to conduct the cognitive assessment and arrive at a preliminary diagnosis within the primary care setting. In addition to starting the patient on anti-cholinesterase medications, the physician must discuss with ...
Sanford I Finkel (Geriatrics, 200306)
cognitive-screening-primary-care-setting-role-physicians-first-point.asp

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Arm movement and gap as factors influencing the reaction time of the second saccade in a double-step task.

To guide our hand for reaching, we explore our visual environment by sequences of saccades. In the present paper, we studied the eye and hand movements of human subjects looking or looking and pointing at a target that is instantaneously displaced two ...
Lars Lünenburger, Klaus-Peter Hoffmann (Eur J Neurosci, 200306)
arm-movement-gap-factors-influencing-reaction-time-second-saccade.asp

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Sustained attention impairment correlates to gray matter decreases in first episode neuroleptic-naive schizophrenic patients.

Impaired sustained attention seems to be a specific neuropsychological deficit that is closely linked to schizophrenia. Voxel based morphometry has emerged as a useful tool for the detection of subtle gray matter (GM) abnormalities. The aim of our study ...
Pilar Salgado-Pineda, Immaculada Baeza, Mercedes Pérez-Gómez, Pere Vendrell, Carme Junqué, Nuria Bargalló, Miquel Bernardo (Neuroimage, 200306)
sustained-attention-impairment-correlates-gray-matter-decreases-first.asp

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Leisure activities and the risk of dementia in the elderly.

BACKGROUND: Participation in leisure activities has been associated with a lower risk of dementia. It is unclear whether increased participation in leisure activities lowers the risk of dementia or participation in leisure activities declines during the ...
Joe Verghese, Richard B Lipton, Mindy J Katz, Charles B Hall, Carol A Derby, Gail Kuslansky, Anne F Ambrose, Martin Sliwinski, Herman Buschke (N Engl J Med, 200306)
leisure-activities-risk-dementia-elderly.asp