Neuropsychological Tests

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Neurodevelopmental vulnerability of the corpus callosum to childhood onset localization-related epilepsy.

Recent research has suggested that childhood onset of localization-related (focal) temporal lobe epilepsy is associated with a generalized adverse effect on cognition and brain structure, especially cerebral white matter volume. This study examined the ...
Bruce Hermann, Russ Hansen, Michael Seidenberg, Vince Magnotta, Dan OLeary (Neuroimage, 200302)
neurodevelopmental-vulnerability-corpus-callosum-childhood-onset.asp

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Pattern of cognitive dysfunction in depressive patients during maintenance electroconvulsive therapy.

BACKGROUND: Objective data regarding adverse cognitive deficits associated with maintenance electroconvulsive therapy (M-ECT) are lacking. This study examined the cognitive state of depressive patients during M-ECT. METHOD: A cross-sectional study was ...
L Rami-González, M Salamero, T Boget, R Catalan, J Ferrer, M Bernardo (Psychol Med, 200302)
pattern-cognitive-dysfunction-depressive-patients-maintenance.asp

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Impairment in basal limbic function in schizophrenia during affect recognition.

Patients with schizophrenia routinely fail to perform affect recognition tasks as accurately as healthy controls. The investigation of performance-related changes in cerebral activation in healthy subjects may facilitate the understanding of adaptation ...
Albrecht Hempel, Eckhard Hempel, Peter Schönknecht, Christoph Stippich, Johannes Schröder (Psychiatry Res, 200302)
impairment-basal-limbic-function-schizophrenia-affect-recognition.asp

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Identifying dementia in high-risk community samples: the memory and medical care study.

The Memory and Medical Care Study (MMCS) is a community-based, longitudinal study of elders at risk for dementia. This paper describes the study methods for identifying subjects with dementia or mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and the validation of these ...
Betty Smith Black, Judith Kasper, Jason Brandt, Andrew D Shore, Pearl German, Lynda Burton, Joseph J Gallo, Constantine Lyketsos, Peter V Rabins (Alzheimer Dis Assoc Disord, 200301-03)
identifying-dementia-high-risk-community-samples-memory-medical-care.asp

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Brain correlates of performance in a free/cued recall task with semantic encoding in Alzheimer disease.

The goal of this study was to explore in patients with Alzheimers disease (AD) the brain correlates of free and cued recall performance using an adaptation of the procedure developed by Grober and Buschke (1987). This procedure, which ensures semantic ...
Françoise Lekeu, Martial Van der Linden, Christian Chicherio, Fabienne Collette, Christian Degueldre, Georges Franck, Gustave Moonen, Eric Salmon (Alzheimer Dis Assoc Disord, 200301-03)
brain-correlates-performance-free-cued-recall-task-semantic-encoding.asp

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Age differences and divided attention: is there a general deficit?

It was the goal of this study to determine whether there were age differences specifically associated with the ability to simultaneously execute two tasks, and whether cognitive costs correlated across different situations. Eighty-one young and 86 older ...
Anik de Ribaupierre, Catherine Ludwig (Exp Aging Res, 200301-03)
age-differences-divided-attention-general-deficit.asp

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Implicit and explicit measures of memory for perceptual information in young adults, healthy older adults, and patients with Alzheimers disease.

In this study, we examined how implicit and explicit memory for perceptual information (modality and voice) and lexical information varied across three subject groups: healthy young adults, healthy older adults, and age-matched older adults with dementia ...
Maura Pilotti, Michelle L Meade, David A Gallo (Exp Aging Res, 200301-03)
implicit-explicit-measures-memory-perceptual-information-young-adults.asp

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Changes in Mini-Mental State Exam in community-dwelling older persons over 6 years: relationship to health and neuropsychological measures.

Although cognitive screening test scores change with advanced age, the significance of these changes (particularly decline in score) needs to be defined in terms of general health and neuropsychological functioning. Such analysis was undertaken in a ...
Paul J Eslinger, Gary E Swan, Dorit Carmelli (Neuroepidemiology, 200301-02)
changes-mini-mental-state-exam-community-dwelling-older-persons-over-.asp

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Cognitive inhibition and thought disorder in schizophrenia.

In schizophrenia, inhibitory control is reported to be disturbed and has been associated with formal thought disorder (TD). The negative priming task (NP) is used as a measure for inhibition; however, controversial results are found in the literature. ...
Daniela Roesch-Ely, Manfred Spitzer, Matthias Weisbrod (Psychopathology, 200301-02)
cognitive-inhibition-thought-disorder-schizophrenia.asp

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Mental state examination: the elicitation of symptoms.

The general rules for elicitation of symptoms during the Mental State Examination (MSE) are not usually emphasized during the training of mental health professionals. This paper discusses principles which can be used to elicit and establish symptoms. The ...
K S Jacob (Psychopathology, 200301-02)
mental-state-examination-elicitation-symptoms.asp