Neuropsychological Tests

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Using the TOMM for evaluating childrens effort to perform optimally on neuropsychological measures.

Suboptimal effort is a threat to the validity of neuropsychological evaluations. Numerous papers have been devoted to this subject and a large number of measures have been developed in an attempt to detect suboptimal effort. To date, however, the ...
Marios Constantinou, Robert J McCaffrey (Neuropsychol Dev Cogn Sect C Child Neuropsychol, 200306)
tomm-evaluating-children-s-effort-perform-optimally.asp

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Relative effects of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation and electroconvulsive therapy on mood and memory: a neurocognitive risk-benefit analysis.

OBJECTIVE: Two procedures for treating major depressive disorder were compared with regard to their respective effects on mood and cognition. BACKGROUND: Fourteen patients underwent treatment with electroconvulsive therapy and 14 underwent treatment with ...
Margaret OConnor, Cornelia Brenninkmeyer, Amy Morgan, Kerry Bloomingdale, Mark Thall, Russell Vasile, Alvaro Pascual Leone (Cogn Behav Neurol, 200306)
relative-effects-repetitive-transcranial-magnetic-stimulation.asp

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A longitudinal study of gait and balance dysfunction in normal older people.

OBJECTIVE: To identify the causes of deteriorating gait and balance in normal older people. METHODS: We measured visual acuity, vestibulo-ocular responses, pure-tone hearing levels, vibration sense, deep tendon reflexes, and Tinetti gait and balance ...
Robert W Baloh, Sarah H Ying, Kathleen M Jacobson (Arch Neurol, 200306)
longitudinal-study-gait-balance-dysfunction-normal-older-people.asp

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Neuropsychological study of familial Alzheimers disease caused by mutation E280A in the presenilin 1 gene.

In Antioquia, Colombia, investigators have recently discovered the largest family with the E280A mutation in the presenilin 1 gene that causes one type of familial Alzheimers disease (FAD). The current study compares two groups within this family: those ...
Juan Carlos Arango Lasprilla, Jaime Iglesias, Francisco Lopera (Am J Alzheimers Dis Other Demen, 200305-06)
neuropsychological-study-familial-alzheimer-s-disease-caused-mutation.asp

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Variability in memory performance in aged healthy individuals: an fMRI study.

Episodic memory performance varies in older subjects but underlying biological correlates remain as yet ambiguous. We investigated episodic memory in healthy older individuals (n=24; mean age: 64.4+/-6.7 years) without subjective memory complaints or ...
Georg Grön, Daniel Bittner, Bernd Schmitz, Arthur P Wunderlich, Reinhard Tomczak, Matthias W Riepe (Neurobiol Aging, 200305-06)
variability-memory-performance-aged-healthy-individuals-fmri-study.asp

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Cognitive burden and excess Lewy-body pathology in the Lewy-body variant of Alzheimer disease.

OBJECTIVES: Authors compared the degrees of cognitive deficit among individuals with Alzheimer disease (AD), the Lewy-body variant of AD (LBV), and "pure" dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB); and compared cortical Lewy body (LB) counts in LBV versus DLB and ...
Michael Serby, Adam M Brickman, Vahram Haroutunian, Dushyant P Purohit, Deborah Marin, Melinda Lantz, Richard C Mohs, Kenneth L Davis (Am J Geriatr Psychiatry, 200305-06)
cognitive-burden-excess-lewy-body-pathology-lewy-body-variant.asp

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Association between regional cerebral blood flow and eye-tracking performance and the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test in schizophrenics: a single photon emission computed tomography study.

The objectives of this study were (1). to examine the changes in regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) during Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST) performance in two different eye-tracking groups; (2). to explore the relationship between eye-tracking ...
Yen Kuang Yang, Chwen Cheng Chen, I Hui Lee, Yu Hsuan Chou, Nan Tsing Chiu, Keith J Jeffries, Tzu Tung Tsai, Tzung Lieh Yeh (Psychiatry Res, 200305)
association-regional-cerebral-blood-flow-eye-tracking-performance.asp

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Brain activation patterns during a selective attention test-a functional MRI study in healthy volunteers and patients with schizophrenia.

Functional magnetic resonance imaging was used to compare cortical activation patterns in healthy volunteers with those in patients with schizophrenia during a modified verbal Stroop task. Healthy subjects (n=13) and patients with schizophrenia (n=13) on ...
Elisabeth M Weiss, Stephan Golaszewski, Felix M Mottaghy, Alex Hofer, Armand Hausmann, Georg Kemmler, Christian Kremser, Claudia Brinkhoff, Stephan R Felber, W Wolfgang Fleischhacker (Psychiatry Res, 200305)
brain-activation-patterns-selective-attention-test-functional-mri.asp

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Functional dissociation among components of remembering: control, perceived oldness, and content.

Remembering is the ability to bring back to mind episodes from ones past and is presumably accomplished by multiple, interdependent processes. In the present functional magnetic resonance imaging study, neural correlates of three hypothesized components ...
Mark E Wheeler, Randy L Buckner (J Neurosci, 200305)
functional-dissociation-components-remembering-control-perceived.asp

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Life expectancy with cognitive impairment in the older population of the United States.

OBJECTIVES: This article provides estimates of the prevalence of cognitive impairment by age and sex for a nationally representative sample of the U.S. population aged 70 and over. From these estimates, years of life with and without cognitive impairment ...
Kristen Suthers, Jung Ki Kim, Eileen Crimmins (J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci, 200305)
life-expectancy-cognitive-impairment-older-population-united-states.asp