Neuropsychological Tests

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Cognitive rehabilitation with patients having persistent, severe psychiatric disabilities.

The effectiveness of cognitive rehabilitation in ameliorating the symptomatic, cognitive, and functional deficits associated with schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorders was assessed in this prospective study. Thirty-eight participants who met DSM-IV ...
Lisa Lewis, Evelyn P Unkefer, Shaun Kelley ONeal, Carol J Crith, Jim Fultz (Psychiatr Rehabil J, 2003SPRING)
cognitive-rehabilitation-patients-persistent-severe-psychiatric.asp

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Long-term treatment with paroxetine increases verbal declarative memory and hippocampal volume in posttraumatic stress disorder.

BACKGROUND: Animal studies have shown that stress is associated with damage to the hippocampus, inhibition of neurogenesis, and deficits in hippocampal-based memory dysfunction. Studies in patients with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) found deficits ...
Eric Vermetten, Meena Vythilingam, Steven M Southwick, Dennis S Charney, J Douglas Bremner (Biol Psychiatry, 200310)
long-term-treatment-paroxetine-increases-verbal-declarative-memory.asp

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Premonitory sensory phenomena and suppressibility of tics in Tourette syndrome: developmental aspects in children and adolescents.

Although premonitory sensory phenomena (PSP) and suppressibility of tics (SPT) are important in Tourette syndrome not only when behavioural therapeutic approaches in children are considered, there is a lack of developmental information on these ...
Tobias Banaschewski, Wolfgang Woerner, Aribert Rothenberger (Dev Med Child Neurol, 200310)
premonitory-sensory-phenomena-suppressibility-tics-tourette-syndrome.asp

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Brain activation by disgust-inducing pictures in obsessive-compulsive disorder.

BACKGROUND: There is growing interest in the role of disgust in the pathogenesis of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). METHODS: Eight OCD subjects with contamination preoccupations and eight gender- and age-matched healthy volunteers viewed pictures ...
Nathan A Shapira, Yijun Liu, Alex G He, Margaret M Bradley, Mary C Lessig, George A James, Dan J Stein, Peter J Lang, Wayne K Goodman (Biol Psychiatry, 200310)
brain-activation-disgust-inducing-pictures-obsessive-compulsive.asp

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The apolipoprotein E epsilon4 allele and antidepressant efficacy in cognitively intact elderly depressed patients.

BACKGROUND: Patients vary in response to antidepressant medications. Apolipoprotein E (APOE) genotype affects vulnerability to stress and risk for cognitive impairment. We sought to determine if the APOE epsilon4 allele influences response in geriatric ...
Greer M Murphy, Charlotte Kremer, Heidi Rodrigues, Alan F Schatzberg, (Biol Psychiatry, 200310)
apolipoprotein-e-epsilon-allele-antidepressant-efficacy-cognitively.asp

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The treatment of Alzheimers disease: success short of cure.

Metaphor has an important role in the discussion of scientific discovery because it enables researchers to talk about things of which their understanding is incomplete. Alzheimers disease (AD) can be seen as a journey down a path, which becomes steadily ...
Kenneth Rockwood, Michael Wallack, Raymond Tallis (Lancet Neurol, 200310)
treatment-alzheimer-s-disease-success-short-cure.asp

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Olfactory identification in elderly Greek people in relation to memory and attention measures.

The University of Pennsylvania Smell Identification Test (UPSIT) and the Cross-Cultural Smell Identification Test (CC-SIT) were administered to nondemented Greek participants ranging in age from 49 to 88 years together with tests of verbal memory from ...
Alexandra Economou (Arch Gerontol Geriatr, 200309-10)
olfactory-identification-elderly-greek-people-relation-memory.asp

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Dietary manganese intake and type of lipid do not affect clinical or neuropsychological measures in healthy young women.

Because manganese (Mn) is potentially toxic, and because dietary fat type may affect Mn absorption, the objectives of the current study were to determine whether diets containing very low or very high amounts of Mn and enriched in either saturated or ...
John W Finley, James G Penland, Ross E Pettit, Cindy D Davis (J Nutr, 200309)
dietary-manganese-intake-type-lipid-not-affect-clinical-or.asp

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Caspase activation in the limbic cortex of subjects with early Alzheimers disease.

We investigated the cleavage of caspase-3, a marker of apoptosis, in the medial temporal lobe of older subjects with minimal cognitive deficits and low CERAD/intermediate Braak scores, that is, clinicopathological descriptors of early Alzheimers disease ...
Myriam C Gastard, Juan C Troncoso, Vassilis E Koliatsos (Ann Neurol, 200309)
caspase-activation-limbic-cortex-subjects-early-alzheimer-s-disease.asp

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Association between A2a receptor gene polymorphisms and caffeine-induced anxiety.

The adenosine receptor system, which mediates the psychoactive effects of caffeine, is also thought to be involved in the regulation of anxiety. In this study, we examined the association between variations in anxiogenic responses to caffeine and ...
Karen Alsene, Jürgen Deckert, Philipp Sand, Harriet de Wit (Neuropsychopharmacology, 200309)
association-a-receptor-gene-polymorphisms-caffeine-induced-anxiety.asp