Neuropsychological Tests

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An evaluation of two commonly used tests of unfamiliar face recognition.

The Warrington Recognition Memory for Faces (RMF) and the Benton Facial Recognition Test (BFRT) are commercially available tests that are commonly used by clinicians and cognitive neuropsychologists to evaluate unfamiliar face recognition. Yet, it is not ...
Bradley C Duchaine, Andrea Weidenfeld (Neuropsychologia, 2003)
evaluation-two-commonly-tests-unfamiliar-face-recognition.asp

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Regional analysis of hippocampal activation during memory encoding and retrieval: fMRI study.

Investigators have recently begun to examine the differential role of subregions of the hippocampus in episodic memory. Two distinct models have gained prominence in the field. One model, outlined by Moser and Moser (Hippocampus 1998;8:608-619), based ...
Michael D Greicius, Ben Krasnow, Jesse M Boyett-Anderson, Stephan Eliez, Alan F Schatzberg, Allan L Reiss, Vinod Menon (Hippocampus, 2003)
regional-analysis-hippocampal-activation-memory-encoding-retrieval.asp

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Memory function in normal aging.

Basic findings obtained on memory functions in normal aging are presented and discussed with respect to five separate but interacting memory systems. These systems are: episodic memory, semantic memory, short-term memory, perceptual representation system ...
Lars-Göran Nilsson (Acta Neurol Scand Suppl, 2003)
memory-function-normal-aging.asp

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Neuropsychological features of mild cognitive impairment and preclinical Alzheimers disease.

Recent research has identified a transitional state between the cognitive changes of normal aging and Alzheimers disease (AD), known as mild cognitive impairment (MCI). MCI patients experience memory loss to a greater extent than one would expect for ...
Eva Arnáiz, Ove Almkvist (Acta Neurol Scand Suppl, 2003)
neuropsychological-features-mild-cognitive-impairment-preclinical.asp

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Pharmacoeconomics of mild cognitive impairment.

There is little written about the pharmacoeconomics of mild cognitive impairment (MCI), particularly with regard to intervention. The aim of the paper is to highlight methodological issues and to present some results that are of importance when drug ...
Anders Wimo, Bengt Winblad (Acta Neurol Scand Suppl, 2003)
pharmacoeconomics-mild-cognitive-impairment.asp

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Attenuated left prefrontal activation during a verbal fluency task in patients with depression.

Functional neuroimaging studies on patients with depression have found abnormal activity in the left prefrontal and anterior cingulate cortex compared with healthy controls. Other studies have shown that these regions become active in healthy subjects ...
G Okada, Y Okamoto, S Morinobu, S Yamawaki, N Yokota (Neuropsychobiology, 2003)
attenuated-left-prefrontal-activation-verbal-fluency-task-patients.asp

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Are MRI white matter lesions clinically significant in the old-old? Evidence from the Sydney Older Persons Study.

BACKGROUND: The number of individuals aged over 80 years is the fastest increasing group in developed countries. White matter lesions (WML) observed on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) have uncertain clinical significance, particularly in the old. ...
Olivier Piguet, Lloyd Ridley, David A Grayson, Hayley P Bennett, Helen Creasey, Tanya C Lye, G Anthony Broe (Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord, 2003)
mri-white-matter-lesions-clinically-significant-old-old-evidence.asp

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Dissociable effects of dopaminergic therapy on spatial versus non-spatial working memory in Parkinsons disease.

There is now evidence for definite and early cognitive deficits in Parkinsons disease (PD), involving, in particular, executive functions and working memory. However, the distinction between visuo-spatial and non-spatial working memory deficits and the ...
H Mollion, J Ventre-Dominey, P F Dominey, E Broussolle (Neuropsychologia, 2003)
dissociable-effects-dopaminergic-therapy-spatial-versus-non-spatial.asp

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Quantitative EEG abnormalities and cognitive dysfunctions in frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimers disease.

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the relationship between quantitative EEG (qEEG) measurements in frontotemporal dementia (FTD), Alzheimers disease (AD) and healthy controls and to study to what extent qEEG in FTD and AD or neuropsychological test results of ...
M Lindau, V Jelic, S-E Johansson, C Andersen, L-O Wahlund, O Almkvist (Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord, 2003)
quantitative-eeg-abnormalities-cognitive-dysfunctions-frontotemporal.asp

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Screening for Alzheimers disease with the short cognitive evaluation battery.

Because Alzheimers disease (AD) tends to be underdiagnosed, there is an increasing need for accurate neuropsychological screening tools that are easy to administer by general practitioners or specialists. The aim of the present study was to validate, in ...
Philippe H Robert, Stéphane Schuck, Bruno Dubois, Jean Pierre Olié, Jean Pierre Lépine, Thierry Gallarda, Sylvia Goni, Sylvie Troy, (Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord, 2003)
screening-alzheimer-s-disease-short-cognitive-evaluation-battery.asp