Neuropsychological Tests

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Lowering of serotonin by rapid tryptophan depletion increases impulsiveness in normal individuals.

RATIONALE: Reduced serotonergic activity has been associated with impulsive behavior; however, intervention studies have been scarce. OBJECTIVES: To examine whether induced lowering of serotonin (5-HT) levels would increase behavioral measures of ...
Espen Walderhaug, Hilde Lunde, Jan E Nordvik, Nils Inge Landrø, Helge Refsum, Andres Magnusson (Psychopharmacology (Berl), 200212)
lowering-serotonin-rapid-tryptophan-depletion-increases-impulsiveness.asp

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Far bias on the radial line bisection task: measuring perceptual-attentional and motor-intentional bias in normal subjects.

Normal subjects usually err distally when bisecting radial lines below eye level in midsagittal space (far bias). To learn if a radial line bisection bias may be characterized as primarily perceptual-attentional or primarily motor-intentional, we had ...
Anna M Barrett, J Brent Crosson, Gregory P Crucian, Kenneth M Heilman (Cortex, 200212)
far-bias-radial-line-bisection-task-measuring-perceptual-attentional.asp

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Bender Gestalt Recall as a measure of short-term visual memory in children and adolescents with psychotic and other severe disorders.

To investigate the short-term visual memory ability of children and adolescents with severe psychiatric disorders, 82 child and adolescent inpatients and day hospital patients in a state psychiatric hospital were administered the Bender Gestalt Test as ...
James McCarthy, Dena Rabinowitz, Mandy Habib, Heather Goldman, Diana Miley, Hanna Yim Stefanyshyn, Shuamis Freeman, Tracey Murray, Renee Clauselle (Percept Mot Skills, 200212)
bender-gestalt-recall-measure-short-term-visual-memory-children.asp

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Selective, sustained, and shift in attention in patients with diagnoses of schizophrenia.

Attentional deficits are a prominent aspect of cognitive dysfunction in schizophrenia. The present study was designed to investigate attention deficit in a group of patients with diagnosis of schizophrenia. According to the segmental set theory suggested ...
H Hagh-Shenas, S Toobai, A Makaremi (Percept Mot Skills, 200212)
selective-sustained-shift-attention-patients-diagnoses-schizophrenia.asp

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A prospective 2-year follow-up study of neurocognitive functioning in patients with first-episode schizophrenia.

To investigate the temporal stability, or progressivity, of neuropsychological (NP) impairment in schizophrenia, 50 patients with first episode (FE) schizophrenia and 50 healthy controls were given a battery of tests at the outset of the study and after ...
Margot Albus, Werner Hubmann, Josef Scherer, Bettina Dreikorn, Susanne Hecht, Norbert Sobizack, Fritz Mohr (Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci, 200212)
prospective-year-follow-up-study-neurocognitive-functioning-patients.asp

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Frontal Systems Behavior Scale in schizophrenia: relationships with psychiatric symptomatology, cognition and adaptive function.

Schizophrenia patients often exhibit impairments in executive functioning on formal testing and exhibit behaviors consistent with executive/frontal impairment in daily life. The Frontal Systems Behavior Scale (FrSBe) assesses behaviors associated with ...
Dawn I Velligan, Janice L Ritch, Dawen Sui, Margaret DiCocco, Cindy D Huntzinger (Psychiatry Res, 200212)
frontal-systems-behavior-scale-schizophrenia-relationships.asp

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The effects of stimulant therapy, EEG biofeedback, and parenting style on the primary symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.

One hundred children, ages 6-19, who were diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), either inattentive or combined types, participated in a study examining the effects of Ritalin, EEG biofeedback, and parenting style on the primary ...
Vincent J Monastra, Donna M Monastra, Susan George (Appl Psychophysiol Biofeedback, 200212)
effects-stimulant-therapy-eeg-biofeedback-parenting-style-primary.asp

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A randomized comparison of high-charge right unilateral electroconvulsive therapy and bilateral electroconvulsive therapy in older depressed patients who failed to respond to 5 to 8 moderate-charge right unilateral treatments.

BACKGROUND: Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is the treatment of choice in some older patients with severe depression. When compared with younger depressed patients, older patients have been shown to be as likely to respond to ECT but more likely to ...
James D Tew, Benoit H Mulsant, Roger F Haskett, Diane Dolata, Lois Hixson, John J Mann (J Clin Psychiatry, 200212)
randomized-comparison-high-charge-right-unilateral-electroconvulsive.asp

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Timing and force control in boys with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: subtype differences and the effect of comorbid developmental coordination disorder.

This study examined the motor and performance outcomes of boys with subtypes of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) (DSM-IV, [American Psychiatric Association, Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, 4th ed., Washington, DC, ...
Thelma M Pitcher, Jan P Piek, Nicholas C Barrett (Hum Mov Sci, 200212)
timing-force-control-boys-attention-deficit-hyperactivity-disorder.asp

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Effect of background motion on line bisection performance in normal subjects.

Previous studies have demonstrated that optokinetic stimulation (OKS) influences line bisection (LB) performance in normal subjects and patients with hemispatial neglect. Since subjects were required to attend to stationary targets on a moving ...
Duk L Na, Youngchul Son, Chi Hun Kim, Byung Hwa Lee, Young-Min Shon, Kwang Joo Lee, Kyung Min Lee, John C Adair, Robert T Watson, Kenneth M Heilman (Cortex, 200212)
effect-background-motion-line-bisection-performance-normal-subjects.asp