Neuropsychological Tests

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A cognitive and physical performance assessment of retirees entering a continuing care retirement community: the Moorings Assessment Protocol.

Moorings Park Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC) screened 267 applicants (115 males; 152 females; mean age 80.22 years) using the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), the 7-Minute Screen, the Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS), and the Physical ...
Edward T Wimberley, Angel Herrera, Brian Kidrowski, Diane Brown, Lily LEsperance (Am J Alzheimers Dis Other Demen, 200303-04)
cognitive-physical-performance-assessment-retirees-entering.asp

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Sedative-hypnotic use of diphenhydramine in a rural, older adult, community-based cohort: effects on cognition.

OBJECTIVE: The authors sought to identify patterns and associations of prescription and over-the-counter sedative-hypnotic use in an older, rural, blue-collar, community-based cohort in southwestern Pennsylvania over 10 years. METHODS: A group of 1,627 ...
Ranita Basu, Hiroko Dodge, Gary P Stoehr, Mary Ganguli (Am J Geriatr Psychiatry, 200303-04)
sedative-hypnotic-diphenhydramine-rural-older-adult-community-based.asp

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Donepezil HCl (E2020) maintains functional brain activity in patients with Alzheimer disease: results of a 24-week, double-blind, placebo-controlled study.

OBJECTIVE: The authors evaluated the effects of donepezil (10 mg/day) versus placebo on brain glucose metabolism. METHODS: This was a randomized, double-blind, parallel-group, 24-week pilot study in 28 patients with mild-to-moderate Alzheimer disease ...
Larry Tune, Paul J Tiseo, John Ieni, Carlos Perdomo, Raymond D Pratt, John R Votaw, R D Jewart, John M Hoffman (Am J Geriatr Psychiatry, 200303-04)
donepezil-hcl-e--maintains-functional-brain-activity-patients.asp

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Reduced Kamin blocking in non paranoid schizophrenia: associations with schizotypy.

Kamin blocking (KB) is an attentional phenomenon whereby prior learning about a stimulus (A) retards learning about a new stimulus (B) when later presented in compound (AB) with the original stimulus A. KB has been shown to be reduced in patients with ...
P M Moran, M M Al-Uzri, J Watson, M A Reveley (J Psychiatr Res, 200303-04)
reduced-kamin-blocking-non-paranoid-schizophrenia-associations.asp

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Persistence of cognitive impairment in geriatric patients following antidepressant treatment: a randomized, double-blind clinical trial with nortriptyline and paroxetine.

Cognitive dysfunction is common in older persons suffering from a major depression. However, the degree to which this dysfunction is reversible with successful treatment of the depression remains uncertain. The present study examined the effects that ...
Robert D Nebes, Bruce G Pollock, Patricia R Houck, Meryl A Butters, Benoit H Mulsant, Michelle D Zmuda, Charles F Reynolds (J Psychiatr Res, 200303-04)
persistence-cognitive-impairment-geriatric-patients-following.asp

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Self-regulatory behaviors in children with Down syndrome and typically developing children measured using the Goodman Lock Box.

Self-regulation has been identified as an area of difficulty for those with mental retardation. The Goodman Lock Box provides measures of two critical aspects of self-regulation-planfulness and maintenance of goal-directed behavior. In this study, the ...
Linda Gilmore, Monica Cuskelly, Alan Hayes (Res Dev Disabil, 200303-04)
self-regulatory-behaviors-children-down-syndrome-typically-developing.asp

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Signs of REM sleep dependent enhancement of implicit face memory: a repetition priming study.

Faces are processed and stored in distinct neuroanatomical systems. Based on evidence of a critical role of sleep in memory processes, we investigated the impact of nocturnal sleep on implicit memories for faces in healthy men. Face repetition effects in ...
Ullrich Wagner, Manfred Hallschmid, Rolf Verleger, Jan Born (Biol Psychol, 200303)
signs-rem-sleep-dependent-enhancement-implicit-face-memory-repetition.asp

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Executive function in young Colombian adults.

The aim of this article was to observe the correlation between executive function (EF) variables, and to determine the factor structure of the EF in young university students, as mathematical models for supporting its multidimensional structure. ...
David A Pineda, Vilma Merchan (Int J Neurosci, 200303)
executive-function-young-colombian-adults.asp

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Pulse pressure and risk of Alzheimer disease in persons aged 75 years and older: a community-based, longitudinal study.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Elevated blood pressure has been found to increase the risk of dementia, including Alzheimer disease. We sought to investigate whether pulse pressure was predictive of Alzheimer disease and dementia. METHODS: A community-based, ...
Chengxuan Qiu, Bengt Winblad, Matti Viitanen, Laura Fratiglioni (Stroke, 200303)
pulse-pressure-risk-alzheimer-disease-persons-aged-years-older.asp

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Impairments in perceptual competency and maintenance on a visual delayed match-to-sample test in first-episode schizophrenia.

BACKGROUND: Deficits in working memory (WM) have been reported in patients with schizophrenia, but WM is a complex construct dependent on several subprocesses, including input representation (perceptual competency) and holding stimuli on-line ...
Todd Lencz, Robert M Bilder, Elihu Turkel, Robert S Goldman, Delbert Robinson, John M Kane, Jeffrey A Lieberman (Arch Gen Psychiatry, 200303)
impairments-perceptual-competency-maintenance-visual-delayed-match.asp