Neuropsychological Tests

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Chronic exposure to NMDA receptor and sodium channel blockers during development in monkeys and rats: long-term effects on cognitive function.

The effects of chronic administration of MK-801 (NMDA-receptor antagonist) and remacemide (sodium channel blocker) on monkey learning of several brain function tasks was assessed in juveniles (nine months old). Low (LO) and high (HI) doses of both drugs ...
Merle G Paule, C Matthew Fogle, Richard R Allen, Edwin C Pearson, Timothy G Hammond, E Jon Popke (Ann N Y Acad Sci, 200305)
chronic-exposure-nmda-receptor-sodium-channel-blockers-development.asp

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Self-reported memory compensation: similar patterns in Alzheimers disease and very old adult samples.

Evidence pertaining to self-reported use of memory compensation techniques was collected using the Memory Compensation Questionnaire (MCQ). Five forms of everyday memory compensation were evaluated: (a) external memory aids, (b) internal mnemonic ...
Roger A Dixon, Grace A Hopp, Anna-Lisa Cohen, Cindy M de Frias, Lars Bäckman (J Clin Exp Neuropsychol, 200305)
self-reported-memory-compensation-similar-patterns-alzheimer-s.asp

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Individual differences in prefrontal cortical activation on the Tower of London planning task: implication for effortful processing.

Solving challenging (effortful) problems is known to involve the dorsal and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in normal volunteers, although there is considerable individual variation. In this functional magnetic resonance imaging study, we show that ...
F Cazalis, R Valabrègue, M Pélégrini-Issac, S Asloun, T W Robbins, S Granon (Eur J Neurosci, 200305)
individual-differences-prefrontal-cortical-activation-tower-london.asp

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Dual target identification and the attentional blink in Parkinsons disease.

In healthy adults, deficits in identifying a second target following a previously attended target in Rapid Serial Visual Presentation (RSVP) occur between intertarget intervals of approximately 100-500 ms. This Attentional Blink (AB) is investigated in ...
Yvette Vardy, John L Bradshaw, Robert Iansek (J Clin Exp Neuropsychol, 200305)
dual-target-identification-attentional-blink-parkinson-s-disease.asp

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Reduced processing resource availability in schizotypal personality disorder: evidence from a dual-task CPT study.

Performance on a dual-task information processing task was investigated in 23 schizotypal personality disorder patients (SPD), 29 patients with other noncluster A personality disorders (OPD) and 8 non-psychiatric healthy controls (NC). All participants ...
Patrick J Moriarty, Philip D Harvey, Vivian Mitropoulou, Eric Granholm, Jeremy M Silverman, Larry J Siever (J Clin Exp Neuropsychol, 200305)
reduced-processing-resource-availability-schizotypal-personality.asp

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Perception and priming of affective faces in temporal lobectomy patients.

Eighteen patients who had undergone standard anterior temporal lobectomy including removal of the amygdala and hippocampus (9 left, LTL; 9 right, RTL) were administered an Affective Task composed of faces depicting negative emotions, and a Neutral Task ...
Leslie A Burton, Gwinne Wyatt, Laura Rabin, Jonathan Frohlich, Susan Bernstein Vardy, Diana Dimitri, Labar Douglas (J Clin Exp Neuropsychol, 200305)
perception-priming-affective-faces-temporal-lobectomy-patients.asp

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Can cognitive deficits explain differential sensitivity to life events in psychosis?

BACKGROUND: Life events (LE) have been found to influence the onset and course of psychotic disorders. It has been suggested that LE have their effect by increasing underlying sensitivity to daily life stress, a reported vulnerability marker for ...
I Myin-Germeys, L Krabbendam, P Delespaul, J van Os (Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol, 200305)
cognitive-deficits-explain-differential-sensitivity-life-events.asp

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Estrogen plus progestin and the incidence of dementia and mild cognitive impairment in postmenopausal women: the Womens Health Initiative Memory Study: a randomized controlled trial.

CONTEXT: Postmenopausal women have a greater risk than men of developing Alzheimer disease, but studies of the effects of estrogen therapy on Alzheimer disease have been inconsistent. On July 8, 2002, the study drugs, estrogen plus progestin, in the ...
Sally A Shumaker, Claudine Legault, Stephen R Rapp, Leon Thal, Robert B Wallace, Judith K Ockene, Susan L Hendrix, Beverly N Jones, Annlouise R Assaf, Rebecca D Jackson, Jane Morley Kotchen, Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller, Jean Wactawski-Wende, (JAMA, 200305)
estrogen-plus-progestin-incidence-dementia-mild-cognitive-impairment.asp

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Significant improvement in frontal lobe associated neuropsychological functions after withdrawal of topiramate in epilepsy patients.

RATIONALE: Topiramate (TPM) is a highly effective anticonvulsant drug, but a comparably high rate of cognitive adverse effects have been reported. In this study, we investigated changes in frontal lobe associated cognitive measures after TPM withdrawal ...
Edgar Kockelmann, Christian E Elger, Christoph Helmstaedter (Epilepsy Res, 200305)
significant-improvement-frontal-lobe-associated-neuropsychological.asp

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Neural manifestations of memory with and without awareness.

Neurophysiological events responsible for different types of human memory tend to occur concurrently and are therefore difficult to measure independently. To surmount this problem, we produced perceptual priming (indicated by speeded responses) in the ...
Ken A Paller, Craig A Hutson, Brennan B Miller, Stephan G Boehm (Neuron, 200305)
neural-manifestations-memory-awareness.asp