Neuropsychological Tests

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Information for dementia patients and their caregivers: what information does a memory clinic pass on, and to whom?

This study assessed the information provided in a memory clinic and the patient and caregiver factors that influenced the provision of information. The study was part of a larger cross-sectional study of the diagnosis of dementia and satisfaction with ...
M J F J Vernooij-Dassen, H P J Van Hout, K L M Hund, W H L Hoefnagels, R P T M Grol (Aging Ment Health, 200301)
information-dementia-patients-caregivers-information-memory-clinic.asp

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Efficacy of cholinesterase inhibitors in the treatment of neuropsychiatric symptoms and functional impairment in Alzheimer disease: a meta-analysis.

CONTEXT: Cholinesterase inhibitors are the primary treatment for the cognitive symptoms of Alzheimer disease (AD). Cholinergic dysfunction is also associated with neuropsychiatric and functional deficits, but results from randomized controlled trials of ...
Nhi-Ha Trinh, Jennifer Hoblyn, Subhanjoy Mohanty, Kristine Yaffe (JAMA, 200301)
efficacy-cholinesterase-inhibitors-treatment-neuropsychiatric.asp

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Defining "early dementia" and monitoring intervention: what measures are useful in family caregiving?

Measures of cognition are often used to define and measure the progress of dementia and outcomes of intervention. This paper examines whether measures of psychosocial disability used with those of cognition are more useful than measures of cognition ...
K Richards, E Moniz-Cook, P Duggan, I Carr, M Wang (Aging Ment Health, 200301)
defining-early-dementia-monitoring-intervention-measures-useful.asp

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Untreated initial psychosis: relation to cognitive deficits and brain morphology in first-episode schizophrenia.

OBJECTIVE: Studies of patients experiencing their first episode of psychosis have demonstrated that they typically remain undiagnosed and untreated for 1-2 years. It has been postulated that prolonged untreated psychosis may have serious effects: poor ...
Beng-Choon Ho, Daniel Alicata, Julianna Ward, David J Moser, Daniel S OLeary, Stephan Arndt, Nancy C Andreasen (Am J Psychiatry, 200301)
untreated-initial-psychosis-relation-cognitive-deficits-brain.asp

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Mirtazapine induces REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD) in parkinsonism.

Shortly after initiation of mirtazapine (a noradrenergic and serotonergic antidepressant) treatment in four patients with parkinsonism, the authors observed the appearance of REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD). In the two patients with severe motor ...
M Onofrj, A L Luciano, A Thomas, D Iacono, G DAndreamatteo (Neurology, 200301)
mirtazapine-induces-rem-sleep-behavior-disorder-rbd-parkinsonism.asp

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Source monitoring and memory confidence in schizophrenia.

BACKGROUND: The present study attempted to extend previous research on source monitoring deficits in schizophrenia. We hypothesized that patients would show a bias to attribute self-generated words to an external source. Furthermore, it was expected that ...
S Moritz, T S Woodward, C C Ruff (Psychol Med, 200301)
source-monitoring-memory-confidence-schizophrenia.asp

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Response of cortical metabolic deficits to serotonergic challenge in familial mood disorders.

OBJECTIVE: In subjects with mood disorders, positron emission tomography (PET) with [(18)F]fluorodeoxyglucose has shown prefrontal cortical metabolism deficits, including in a subgenual region in subjects with familial illness. The authors applied a ...
Lawrence S Kegeles, Kevin M Malone, Mark Slifstein, Steven P Ellis, Eric Xanthopoulos, John G Keilp, Carl Campbell, Maria Oquendo, Ronald L Van Heertum, J John Mann (Am J Psychiatry, 200301)
response-cortical-metabolic-deficits-serotonergic-challenge-familial.asp

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Changing cortical excitability with low-frequency transcranial magnetic stimulation can induce sustained disruption of tactile perception.

Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is promising as a therapeutic tool, and TMS of the motor system has served as a model for regionally specific modulations of cortical excitability. It is unclear, however, to what extent response characteristics of ...
Stefan Knecht, Tanja Ellger, Caterina Breitenstein, Erich Bernd Ringelstein, Henning Henningsen (Biol Psychiatry, 200301)
changing-cortical-excitability-low-frequency-transcranial-magnetic.asp

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Regional brain chemical alterations in young children with autism spectrum disorder.

OBJECTIVE: The authors evaluated regional brain chemistry for evidence of increased neuronal packing density in autism. METHODS: Forty-five 3- to 4-year-old children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), 13 children with typical development (TD), and 15 ...
S D Friedman, D W Shaw, A A Artru, T L Richards, J Gardner, G Dawson, S Posse, S R Dager (Neurology, 200301)
regional-brain-chemical-alterations-young-children-autism-spectrum.asp

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Discourse analysis of logical memory recall in normal aging and in dementia of the Alzheimer type.

This study examined the nature of errors in prose recall made in dementia compared with normal aging. Responses by 48 young adults, 47 nondemented older adults, and 70 people with very mild or mild Alzheimers disease to the Logical Memory subtest of the ...
David K Johnson, Martha Storandt, David A Balota (Neuropsychology, 200301)
discourse-analysis-logical-memory-recall-normal-aging-dementia.asp