Neuropsychological Tests

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Detection of childrens malingering on Ravens Standard Progressive Matrices.

A formula for detecting faked Ravens SPM profiles was cross-validated on 44 children and adolescents (ages 7-17). It yielded a false negative rate of 64%. However, a rule using three very easy items (i.e., any of A3, A4 or B1 missed) yielded a hit rate ...
R Kim McKinzey, Jörg Prieler, John Raven (Br J Clin Psychol, 200303)
detection-children-s-malingering-raven-s-standard-progressive-matrices.asp

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Neuropsychological screening for cognitive impairment using computer-assisted tasks.

The aim of this study was to validate a computer-assisted screening battery for classifying patients into two groups, those with and without cognitive impairment. Participants were all patients referred to the neuropsychology clinics at four VA medical ...
Roberta F White, Kenneth E James, Jennifer J Vasterling, Richard Letz, Karen Marans, Richard Delaney, Maxine Krengel, Fredric Rose, Helena C Kraemer (Assessment, 200303)
neuropsychological-screening-cognitive-impairment-computer-assisted.asp

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Psychometric properties of the Hooper Visual Organization Test.

The psychometric properties of the Hooper Vsual Organization Test (VOT) have not been well investigated Here the authors present internal consistency and interrater reliability coefficients, and an item analysis, using data from a sample (N = 281) of ...
Michael N Lopez, Michael D Lazar, Sindy Oh (Assessment, 200303)
psychometric-properties-hooper-visual-organization-test.asp

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Commission error rates on a continuous performance test are related to deficits measured by the Benton Visual Retention Test.

This study is one in a series investigating the relationship between impulsive behavior on a Continuous Performance Test (i.e., the Immediate and Delayed Memory Task) and other cognitive deficits measured by clinical instruments. Forty-two adolescents ...
Donald M Dougherty, Charles W Mathias, Dawn M Marsh, Kevin W Greve, James M Bjork, F Gerard Moeller (Assessment, 200303)
commission-error-rates-continuous-performance-test-related-deficits.asp

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The effects of practice on the cognitive test performance of neurologically normal individuals assessed at brief test-retest intervals.

Performance on many cognitive and neuropsychological tests may be improved by prior exposure to testing stimuli and procedures. These beneficial practice effects can have a significant impact on test performance when conventional neuropsychological tests ...
Alexander Collie, Paul Maruff, David G Darby, Michael McStephen (J Int Neuropsychol Soc, 200303)
effects-practice-cognitive-test-performance-neurologically-normal.asp

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Neuropsychological assessment and telemedicine: a preliminary study examining the reliability of neuropsychology services performed via telecommunication.

Within the last decade, various applications of two-way audio-visual telecommunication have been implemented in the Norwegian health care system to facilitate the delivery of medical services to patients located in rural areas away from the hospitals. ...
Svenn E Jacobsen, Terje Sprenger, Stein Andersson, Jan-Magne Krogstad (J Int Neuropsychol Soc, 200303)
neuropsychological-assessment-telemedicine-preliminary-study.asp

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Language recovery following subthalamic nucleus stimulation in Parkinsons disease.

Neuropsychological consequences of stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus for treatment of drug-resistant Parkinsons disease (PD) have been studied previously. However, no detailed investigations of linguistic function modifications have been carried ...
Sergio Zanini, Alessandro Melatini, Livio Capus, Manuela Gioulis, Antonio Vassallo, Antonio Bava (Neuroreport, 200303)
language-recovery-following-subthalamic-nucleus-stimulation-parkinson.asp

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Category fluency in first-episode schizophrenia.

Animal word list generation (ANWLG) was administered to 47 first-episode schizophrenia (FES) participants and 31 controls. Fifty-nine left temporal lobe epilepsy (LTLE) participants were included as a comparison group with known temporal lobe damage and ...
Tania Giovannetti, Rita Z Goldstein, Matthew Schullery, William B Barr, Robert M Bilder (J Int Neuropsychol Soc, 200303)
category-fluency-first-episode-schizophrenia.asp

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Verbal learning in Alzheimers dementia.

Many recent findings in Western countries suggest that episodic recall is the most sensitive discriminator between patients with mild Alzheimer disease (AD) and the normal elderly, while semantic memory tends best to differentiate between moderate and ...
Alma Au, Agnes S Chan, Helen Chiu (J Int Neuropsychol Soc, 200303)
verbal-learning-alzheimer-s-dementia.asp

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Extratemporal quantitative MR volumetrics and neuropsychological status in temporal lobe epilepsy.

Neuropsychological studies of temporal lobe epilepsy have focused heavily on the nature and extent of memory dysfunction and its relationship to the neuropathological status of the hippocampus and related mesial temporal lobe structures. In this study, ...
Bruce Hermann, Michael Seidenberg, Brian Bell, Paul Rutecki, Raj D Sheth, Gary Wendt, Daniel OLeary, Vince Magnotta (J Int Neuropsychol Soc, 200303)
extratemporal-quantitative-mr-volumetrics-neuropsychological-status.asp