Neuropsychological Tests

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Spatiotemporal brain activity related to intelligence: a low resolution brain electromagnetic tomography study.

Differences in current density between high intelligent (IQ=124), and average intelligent individuals (IQ=110), while solving two complex cognitive tasks (analytical-figural, and identification of emotions) were analyzed with low resolution brain ...
Norbert Jausovec, Ksenija Jausovec (Brain Res Cogn Brain Res, 200304)
spatiotemporal-brain-activity-related-intelligence-low-resolution.asp

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Graspable objects grab attention when the potential for action is recognized.

Visually guided grasping movements require a rapid transformation of visual representations into object-specific motor programs. Here we report that graspable objects may facilitate these visuomotor transformations by automatically grabbing visual ...
Todd C Handy, Scott T Grafton, Neha M Shroff, Sarah Ketay, Michael S Gazzaniga (Nat Neurosci, 200304)
graspable-objects-grab-attention-potential-action-recognized.asp

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Wanted: fully operational definitions of dissociations in single-case studies.

In contrast to the careful consideration given to the issue of what we can infer from dissociations in single-case studies, the more basic question of how we decide whether a dissociation is present has been relatively neglected. Proposals are made for ...
John R Crawford, Paul H Garthwaite, Colin D Gray (Cortex, 200304)
wanted-fully-operational-definitions-dissociations-single-case-studies.asp

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A brief (one-hour) quantitative neuropsychological assessment with three performance-based tests: strong concordance with proficiency scores for a more extensive test battery.

Raw scores for each of several dozens of traditional and more recently developed neuropsychological tests were correlated with an impairment index composed of all of these scores from the records of 162 patients who had been assessed following impacts of ...
M A Persinger (Percept Mot Skills, 200304)
brief-one-hour-quantitative-neuropsychological-assessment-three.asp

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NOTCH4 and the frontal lobe in schizophrenia.

NOTCH4 is a developmentally expressed gene recently reported to be in linkage disequilibrium (LD) with schizophrenia. We investigated this finding in our sample of subjects, focusing on an exonic (CTG)(n) polymorphism, examining not only the association ...
Thomas H Wassink, Peggy Nopoulos, Jennifer Pietila, Raymond R Crowe, Nancy C Andreasen (Am J Med Genet, 200304)
notch-frontal-lobe-schizophrenia.asp

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Brain glucose metabolic changes associated with neuropsychological improvements after 4 months of treatment in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder.

OBJECTIVE: The study was designed to elucidate regional brain metabolic changes according to a treatment and their relationship with neuropsychological performance changes in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). METHOD: Cerebral glucose metabolic rates ...
D-H Kang, J S Kwon, J-J Kim, T Youn, H-J Park, M S Kim, D S Lee, M C Lee (Acta Psychiatr Scand, 200304)
brain-glucose-metabolic-changes-associated-neuropsychological.asp

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Pramipexole in comparison to l-dopa: a neuropsychological study.

Twenty right-handed patients affected by early/mild Parkinsons disease were evaluated in a randomised study using neuropsychological and clinical assessements during three treatment modalities: when in the off treatment condition, when on pramipexole, ...
L Brusa, A Bassi, A Stefani, M Pierantozzi, A Peppe, M D Caramia, L Boffa, S Ruggieri, P Stanzione (J Neural Transm, 200304)
pramipexole-comparison-l-dopa-neuropsychological-study.asp

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Early gamma response in human neuroelectric activity is correlated with neuropsychological test scores.

The goal of this study was to investigate whether early, time-locked sensory gamma band response is correlated with a set of scores derived from neuropsychological tests. Neuroelectric responses were obtained under active auditory oddball paradigm. Of 67 ...
Sirel Karakas, Belma Bekçi, Omer Utku Erzengin (Neurosci Lett, 200304)
early-gamma-response-human-neuroelectric-activity-correlated.asp

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Clinical and neurobiological effects of tianeptine and paroxetine in major depression.

Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) are widely used as effective pharmacological agents to treat depressive disorders. In contrast to the SSRIs, which block the presynaptic serotonin (5-HT) transporter and by this route increase the ...
Thomas Nickel, Annette Sonntag, Julia Schill, Astrid W Zobel, Nibal Ackl, Alexander Brunnauer, Harald Murck, Marcus Ising, Alexander Yassouridis, Axel Steiger, Josef Zihl, Florian Holsboer (J Clin Psychopharmacol, 200304)
clinical-neurobiological-effects-tianeptine-paroxetine-major.asp

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Neuropsychological impairment in patients with major depressive disorder: the effects of feedback on task performance.

BACKGROUND: Recent evidence suggests that an abnormal response to performance feedback may contribute to the wide-ranging neuropsychological deficits typically associated with depressive illness. The present research sought to determine whether the ...
F C Murphy, A Michael, T W Robbins, B J Sahakian (Psychol Med, 200304)
neuropsychological-impairment-patients-major-depressive-disorder.asp