Neuropsychological Tests

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Differences in trace and delay visuomotor associative learning in cerebellar patients.

Recent studies revealed an impairment of patients with cerebellar lesions in cognitive associative learning paradigms, which could not be explained by motor deficits or increased attentional demands during performance of the motor part of the particular ...
Matthias Maschke, Johannes Drepper, Katja Bürgerhoff, Sandra Calabrese, Florian P Kolb, Irene Daum, Hans-Christoph Diener, Dagmar Timmann (Exp Brain Res, 200212)
differences-trace-delay-visuomotor-associative-learning-cerebellar.asp

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Longitudinal, 15-year follow-up of children born at less than 29 weeks gestation after introduction of surfactant therapy into a region: neurologic, cognitive, and educational outcomes.

OBJECTIVE: To measure the primary and secondary school-age neurologic, cognitive, and educational outcomes in a cohort of extremely premature infants born after the introduction of exogenous surfactant therapy in a circumscribed region. METHODS: Two ...
Carl T DAngio, Robert A Sinkin, Timothy P Stevens, Nancy K Landfish, Joan L Merzbach, Rita M Ryan, Dale L Phelps, Donna R Palumbo, Gary J Myers (Pediatrics, 200212)
longitudinal--year-follow-up-children-born-less-weeks-gestation.asp

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Development and initial validation of an inventory to assess grief in caregivers of persons with Alzheimers disease.

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to develop an empirically based, psychometrically sound instrument for the assessment of grief in caregivers of persons with Alzheimers disease. DESIGN AND METHODS: A total of 184 statements addressing personal ...
Samuel J Marwit, Thomas M Meuser (Gerontologist, 200212)
development-initial-validation-inventory-assess-grief-caregivers.asp

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A multivariate classification study of attentional orienting in patients with right hemisphere lesions.

OBJECTIVE: To characterize patterns of orienting dysfunction that were typical to patients with lesions in the right hemisphere (RH). BACKGROUND: Brain lesions in the right hemisphere are commonly associated with dysfunction of visual orienting (e.g., ...
Astri J Lundervold, Arvid Lundervold, Kenneth Hugdahl (Neuropsychiatry Neuropsychol Behav Neurol, 200212)
multivariate-classification-study-attentional-orienting-patients.asp

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View from the top: hierarchies and reverse hierarchies in the visual system.

We propose that explicit vision advances in reverse hierarchical direction, as shown for perceptual learning. Processing along the feedforward hierarchy of areas, leading to increasingly complex representations, is automatic and implicit, while conscious ...
Shaul Hochstein, Merav Ahissar (Neuron, 200212)
view-top-hierarchies-reverse-hierarchies-visual-system.asp

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Hypnotic suggestion and the modulation of Stroop interference.

BACKGROUND: Hypnosis has been used clinically for hundreds of years and is primarily a phenomenon involving attentive receptive concentration. Cognitive science has not fully exploited hypnosis and hypnotic suggestion as experimental tools. This study ...
Amir Raz, Theodore Shapiro, Jin Fan, Michael I Posner (Arch Gen Psychiatry, 200212)
hypnotic-suggestion-modulation-stroop-interference.asp

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Generalized cognitive impairments, ability to perform everyday tasks, and level of independence in community living situations of older patients with psychosis.

OBJECTIVE: This study examined the relationship between performance of instrumental activities of daily living, as measured with the University of California, San Diego, Performance-Based Skills Assessment (UPSA), and measures of cognitive functioning ...
Elizabeth W Twamley, Rishi R Doshi, Gauri V Nayak, Barton W Palmer, Shahrokh Golshan, Robert K Heaton, Thomas L Patterson, Dilip V Jeste (Am J Psychiatry, 200212)
generalized-cognitive-impairments-ability-perform-everyday-tasks.asp

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Changes in cognitive functioning following comprehensive treatment for first episode patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders.

The course of cognitive functioning over a 1-year period was examined among a community cohort of individuals presenting with first episode schizophrenia spectrum psychosis. Data were obtained for 83 outpatients at entry to an early intervention program ...
Laurel A Townsend, Ross M G Norman, Ashok K Malla, Anita D Rychlo, Rashid R Ahmed (Psychiatry Res, 200212)
changes-cognitive-functioning-following-comprehensive-treatment-first.asp

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Levetiracetam may be more effective for late-onset partial epilepsy.

BACKGROUND: Many agents are available for treating epilepsy; however, population studies have failed to show overall differences in efficacy for a given seizure type. Clinical experience suggests that certain individuals will respond to a given agent ...
Carl W Bazil, Andrew Rose, Stanley Resor, Bülent Yapicular, Lawrence J Hirsch (Arch Neurol, 200212)
levetiracetam-more-effective-late-onset-partial-epilepsy.asp

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Effects of the NMDA antagonist memantine on human methamphetamine discrimination.

RATIONALE: The discriminative stimulus effects of N-methyl- D-aspartate (NMDA) antagonists have been assessed in laboratory animals. To date, no published study has assessed their ability to alter methamphetamine-related discriminative stimulus effects ...
Carl L Hart, Margaret Haney, Richard W Foltin, Marian W Fischman (Psychopharmacology (Berl), 200212)
effects-nmda-antagonist-memantine-human-methamphetamine-discrimination.asp