Neuropsychological Tests

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Computer-assisted cognitive rehabilitation reduces negative symptoms in the severely mentally ill.

Thirty-four-day treatment program clients diagnosed with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder were randomly assigned to a computer-assisted cognitive rehabilitation (CACR) group or a wait-list Control group. CACR clients received 16 CACR sessions ...
Dona M Bellucci, Kathryn Glaberman, Nick Haslam (Schizophr Res, 200302)
computer-assisted-cognitive-rehabilitation-reduces-negative-symptoms.asp

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Comparison of two alternative measures of the boundary construct.

Mental boundaries is a traditional concept in psychology, although attempts to conceptualize and measure such boundaries empirically have only recently been pursued. Two major efforts in this respect are Hartmanns Boundary Questionnaire and the Revised ...
James Houran, Michael A Thalbourne, Ernest Hartman (Percept Mot Skills, 200302)
comparison-two-alternative-measures-boundary-construct.asp

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Mild cognitive impairment in the oldest old.

BACKGROUND: No data exist on whether the syndrome of amnestic mild cognitive impairment occurs in the oldest old, or if the relationships for functional status and neuropsychometric performance based on clinical diagnosis hold true in this age group. ...
B Boeve, J McCormick, G Smith, T Ferman, T Rummans, T Carpenter, R Ivnik, E Kokmen, E Tangalos, S Edland, D Knopman, R Petersen (Neurology, 200302)
mild-cognitive-impairment-oldest-old.asp

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Cholinergic plasticity in hippocampus of individuals with mild cognitive impairment: correlation with Alzheimers neuropathology.

Several recent studies indicate that activity of cholinergic enzymes in the cortex of people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and early Alzheimers disease (AD) are preserved. We correlated levels of hippocampal choline acetyltransferase (ChAT) ...
Milos D Ikonomovic, Elliott J Mufson, Joanne Wuu, Elizabeth J Cochran, David A Bennett, Steven T DeKosky (J Alzheimers Dis, 200302)
cholinergic-plasticity-hippocampus-individuals-mild-cognitive.asp

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Serum anticholinergic activity in a community-based sample of older adults: relationship with cognitive performance.

BACKGROUND: Serum anticholinergic activity (SAA), as measured by a radioreceptor assay, quantifies a persons overall anticholinergic burden caused by all drugs and their metabolites. In several small geriatric patient groups, SAA has been associated with ...
Benoit H Mulsant, Bruce G Pollock, Margaret Kirshner, Changyu Shen, Hiroko Dodge, Mary Ganguli (Arch Gen Psychiatry, 200302)
serum-anticholinergic-activity-community-based-sample-older-adults.asp

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Alzheimers disease and total plasma aminothiols.

BACKGROUND: Plasma homocysteine is elevated in Alzheimers disease, but little is known regarding levels of related aminothiols in the disease. We therefore determined total plasma homocysteine, cysteine, and glutathione levels in patients and control ...
Andrew McCaddon, Peter Hudson, Diane Hill, Joan Barber, Alwyn Lloyd, Gareth Davies, Björn Regland (Biol Psychiatry, 200302)
alzheimer-s-disease-total-plasma-aminothiols.asp

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Interhemispheric integration of letter stimuli presented foveally or extra-foveally.

Two experiments are reported in which participants decided whether a single target letter presented below and to the left or right of fixation matched either of two probe letters presented above the fixation cross to the left and right. The level of ...
Michal Lavidor, Andrew W Ellis (Cortex, 200302)
interhemispheric-integration-letter-stimuli-presented-foveally-or.asp

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Evidence from functional neuroimaging of a compensatory prefrontal network in Alzheimers disease.

Previous experiments have found that individuals with Alzheimers disease (AD) show increased activity in prefrontal regions compared with healthy age-matched controls during cognitive tasks. This has been interpreted as compensatory reallocation of ...
Cheryl L Grady, Anthony R McIntosh, Sania Beig, Michelle L Keightley, Hana Burian, Sandra E Black (J Neurosci, 200302)
evidence-functional-neuroimaging-compensatory-prefrontal-network.asp

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Are our norms "normal"? A 4-year follow-up study of a biracial sample of rural elders with low education.

Conventional norms that test presumably normal elderly individuals at one point in time may include preclinical cases of dementia and therefore may be less sensitive to the presence of dementia (Sliwinski, Lipton, Buschke, & Stewart, 1996). A sample of ...
Bernice Marcopulos, Carol McLain (Clin Neuropsychol, 200302)
norms-normal--year-follow-up-study-biracial-sample-rural-elders-low.asp

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Hormone replacement therapy in postmenopausal women with Alzheimers disease: a randomized, prospective study.

OBJECTIVE: To compare the therapeutic efficacy of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and tacrine in Alzheimers disease. DESIGN: Six-month, randomized, open-label study. SETTING: University hospital. PATIENT(S): Fifty-five women with mild to moderate ...
Byung-Koo Yoon, Doh Kwan Kim, Yeonwook Kang, Jong-Won Kim, Myung-Hee Shin, Duk L Na (Fertil Steril, 200302)
hormone-replacement-therapy-postmenopausal-women-alzheimer-s-disease.asp