Neuropsychological Tests

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Heterosexual male perpetrators of childhood sexual abuse: a preliminary neuropsychiatric model.

This paper presents data from a series of preliminary neuropsychiatric studies, including neuropsychological, personality, sexual history, plethysmographic and neuroimaging investigations, on a sample of 22 male, heterosexual, nonexclusive pedophiles and ...
Lisa J Cohen, Konstantin Nikiforov, Sniezyna Gans, Olga Poznansky, Pamela McGeoch, Carrie Weaver, Enid Gertmanian King, Ken Cullen, Igor Galynker (Psychiatr Q, 2002WINTER)
heterosexual-male-perpetrators-childhood-sexual-abuse-preliminary.asp

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Effects of depression and Parkinsons disease on cognitive functioning.

This study compared the performance of Parkinsons disease (PD) patients with and without depression, patients with depression alone, and normal control subjects on a cognitive screening instrument, the Mattis Dementia Rating Scale (DRS) to evaluate the ...
Suzanne Norman, Alexander I Tröster, Julie A Fields, Rebecca Brooks (J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci, 2002WINTER)
effects-depression-parkinson-s-disease-cognitive-functioning.asp

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Learning and recall in subjects at genetic risk for Alzheimers disease.

Deficits in delayed recall of learned information may be an early marker of Alzheimers disease (AD). The apolipoprotein E E4 allele and a positive family history (FH) are both genetic risk factors for AD. The authors cross-sectionally compared ...
J Gene Chen, Christopher L Edwards, Suman Vidyarthi, Suresh Pitchumoni, Sara Tabrizi, Dan Barboriak, H Cecil Charles, P Murali Doraiswamy (J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci, 2002WINTER)
learning-recall-subjects-genetic-risk-alzheimer-s-disease.asp

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Impaired recognition of facial expressions of emotion in Alzheimers disease.

Recognizing facial emotions is an important aspect of interpersonal communication that may be impaired in Alzheimers disease (AD). The authors examined facial emotion matching, facial emotion labeling, and same--different emotion differentiation in AD ...
Rita Hargrave, Richard J Maddock, Valerie Stone (J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci, 2002WINTER)
impaired-recognition-facial-expressions-emotion-alzheimer-s-disease.asp

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Investigating emergent symptomatology as an outcome measure in a behavioral study of Alzheimers disease.

These retrospective analyses represent a pilot study of a potential new outcome, expected emergence. The Behavior Rating Scale for Dementia (BRSD) was administered at the baseline and 12-month visits of a multicenter study. The authors computed the rates ...
Rochelle E Tractenberg, Anthony Gamst, Ronald G Thomas, Marian Patterson, Lon S Schneider, Leon J Thal (J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci, 2002SUMMER)
investigating-emergent-symptomatology-outcome-measure-behavioral.asp

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Insufficient processing resources in Parkinsons disease: evaluation using multimodal event-related potentials paradigm.

The purpose of our study was to demonstrate impaired allocation of processing resources in non-demented patients with early-stage mild Parkinsons disease (PD) using a multimodal event-related potential (ERP) paradigm. The multimodal ERP paradigm was ...
Xiao-Hui Zeng, Koichi Hirata, Hideaki Tanaka, Akinori Hozumi, Kaoru Yamazaki (Brain Topogr, 2002SUMMER)
insufficient-processing-resources-parkinson-s-disease-evaluation.asp

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A randomized, double-blind, crossover study of methylphenidate and lithium in adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: preliminary findings.

The authors examined the efficacy of methylphenidate (MPH) and lithium to treat attention-deficit/ hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in adults, using a randomized, double-blind, crossover design. Patients received 8 weeks of MPH treatment (up to 40 mg/day) ...
María Flavia Dorrego, Lilia Canevaro, Gabriela Kuzis, Liliana Sabe, Sergio E Starkstein (J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci, 2002SUMMER)
randomized-double-blind-crossover-study-methylphenidate-lithium.asp

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Representation of memory for order of mental operations in cognitive tasks.

Recent research shows that people learning a cognitive task acquire a memory for the order of operations applied, independent of the data to which those operations were applied. We designed two experiments to show how this sequence memory is represented. ...
Michael K Gardner, Dan J Woltz, Brian G Bell (Am J Psychol, 2002SUMMER)
representation-memory-order-mental-operations-cognitive-tasks.asp

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Determining levels of unawareness in dementia research.

Clinical methods used to determine unawareness in dementia exist; however, their applicability to empirical research is limited. The authors present a statistically derived approach to determining unawareness that addresses these limitations. Dementia ...
Melissa Lamar, Michael R Lasarev, David J Libon (J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci, 2002FALL)
determining-levels-unawareness-dementia-research.asp

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Association of obsessions and compulsions in schizophrenia with neurocognition and negative symptoms.

It is unclear whether obsessions and compulsions in schizophrenia spectrum disorders are associated with a unique pattern of symptoms and deficits. Accordingly, the present study compared symptom levels and neurocognitive function of participants with ...
Paul H Lysaker, Gary J Bryson, Kriscinda A Marks, Tamasine C Greig, Morris D Bell (J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci, 2002FALL)
association-obsessions-compulsions-schizophrenia-neurocognition.asp