Neuropsychological Tests

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Auditory and visual naming tests: normative and patient data for accuracy, response time, and tip-of-the-tongue.

Naming is typically assessed with visual naming tasks, yet, some patients with genuine word-finding difficulty (evident in auditorily based discourse) show minimal difficulty on such measures. Evidence from cortical mapping, brain imaging and ...
Marla J Hamberger, William T Seidel (J Int Neuropsychol Soc, 200303)
auditory-visual-naming-tests-normative-patient-data-accuracy-response.asp

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Capsulotomy for refractory anxiety disorders: long-term follow-up of 26 patients.

OBJECTIVE: The objective of the present study was to evaluate the long-term efficacy and safety of capsulotomy in patients with anxiety disorders. METHOD: Twenty-six patients who had undergone bilateral thermocapsulotomy were followed up 1 year after the ...
Christian Rück, Sergej Andréewitch, Karin Flyckt, Gunnar Edman, Håkan Nyman, Björn A Meyerson, Bodo E Lippitz, Tomas Hindmarsh, Pär Svanborg, Per Mindus, Marie Asberg (Am J Psychiatry, 200303)
capsulotomy-refractory-anxiety-disorders-long-term-follow-up-patients.asp

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Cognitive function in schizophrenia. Deficits, functional consequences, and future treatment.

This article has discussed the relationship between cognitive deficits and functional outcome in schizophrenia. This relationship was noted first by Kraepelin and Bleuler at the beginning of the twentieth century. With the introduction of conventional ...
Tonmoy Sharma, Lena Antonova (Psychiatr Clin North Am, 200303)
cognitive-function-schizophrenia-deficits-functional-consequences.asp

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Low-level lead exposure, executive functioning, and learning in early childhood.

The current paper presents evidence relating low-level lead exposure to impaired executive functioning in young children. Using the Shape School task, we assessed focused attention, attention switching, working memory, and the ability to inhibit ...
Richard L Canfield, Donna A Kreher, Craig Cornwell, Charles R Henderson (Neuropsychol Dev Cogn Sect C Child Neuropsychol, 200303)
low-level-lead-exposure-executive-functioning-learning-early-childhood.asp

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The Madrid card sorting test (MCST): a task switching paradigm to study executive attention with event-related potentials.

Event-related potentials (ERPs) provide valuable information about the fast brain dynamics subserving cognitive functions such as attention and working memory. Most ERP studies employ cognitive paradigms with a fixed task-set (i.e., press a button to ...
Francisco Barceló (Brain Res Brain Res Protoc, 200303)
madrid-card-sorting-test-mcst-task-switching-paradigm-study.asp

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The neuropsychology of depression: a literature review and preliminary model.

Neuropsychological research provides a useful framework to study emotional problems, such as depression, and their correlates. This paper reviews several prominent neuropsychological theories. Functional neuroanatomical systems of emotion and depression ...
Brian V Shenal, David W Harrison, Heath A Demaree (Neuropsychol Rev, 200303)
neuropsychology-depression-literature-review-preliminary-model.asp

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A meta-analysis of structural and functional brain imaging in dementia of the Alzheimers type: a neuroimaging profile.

We conducted a quantitative review of the imaging literature using meta-analytic methodology to characterize further the magnitude of hippocampal deficit in probable Alzheimers disease (AD) and to determine whether other neuroanatomic structures in AD ...
Konstantine K Zakzanis, Simon J Graham, Zachariah Campbell (Neuropsychol Rev, 200303)
meta-analysis-structural-functional-brain-imaging-dementia-alzheimer.asp

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Cognition in pregnancy and the first year post-partum.

A longitudinal study measured the performance of a group of 15 pregnant women on tests of verbal memory, divided attention, and focused attention on four occasions (second trimester, third trimester, 6 weeks post-partum, and 1 year post-partum) while at ...
R A Crawley, K Dennison, C Carter (Psychol Psychother, 200303)
cognition-pregnancy-first-year-post-partum.asp

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A placebo-controlled study of lofexidine in the treatment of children with tic disorders and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

This study evaluated the efficacy and safety of Lofexidine in treating children with tic disorders and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Subjects from a specialty tic disorders clinic were randomly assigned to receive 8 weeks of treatment ...
Helmut Niederhofer, Wolfgang Staffen, Alois Mair (J Psychopharmacol, 200303)
placebo-controlled-study-lofexidine-treatment-children-tic-disorders.asp

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Association of life activities with cerebral blood flow in Alzheimer disease: implications for the cognitive reserve hypothesis.

BACKGROUND: Regional cerebral blood flow (CBF), a good indirect index of cerebral pathologic changes in Alzheimer disease (AD), is more severely reduced in patients with higher educational attainment and IQ when controlling for clinical severity. This ...
Nikolaos Scarmeas, Eric Zarahn, Karen E Anderson, Christian G Habeck, John Hilton, Joseph Flynn, Karen S Marder, Karen L Bell, Harold A Sackeim, Ronald L Van Heertum, James R Moeller, Yaakov Stern (Arch Neurol, 200303)
association-life-activities-cerebral-blood-flow-alzheimer-disease.asp