Neuropsychological Tests

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Frontal white matter microstructure and treatment response of late-life depression: a preliminary study.

OBJECTIVE: This study tested the hypothesis that microstructural abnormalities in white matter areas of the brain containing frontostriatal tracts are associated with a low rate of remission of geriatric depression. METHOD: Thirteen older patients with ...
George S Alexopoulos, Dimitris N Kiosses, Steven J Choi, Christopher F Murphy, Kelvin O Lim (Am J Psychiatry, 200211)
frontal-white-matter-microstructure-treatment-response-late-life.asp

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Cigarette smoking and alcohol consumption in relation to cognitive performance in middle age.

In the elderly, cigarette smoking has been related to reduced cognitive performance and moderate alcohol consumption to increased cognitive performance. It is not clear whether these associations also exist in middle age. The authors examined these ...
Sandra Kalmijn, Martin P J van Boxtel, Monique W M Verschuren, Jelle Jolles, Lenore J Launer (Am J Epidemiol, 200211)
cigarette-smoking-alcohol-consumption-relation-cognitive-performance.asp

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Toward clinical application of neuropsychological activation probes with SPECT: a spatial working memory task.

The concept of working memory is central to theories of human cognition, because it is essential to human skills such as decision making and deductive reasoning. Although PET and functional MRI have provided robust data on the recruitment of specific ...
Ingeborg Goethals, Kurt Audenaert, Filip Jacobs, Christophe Van De Wiele, Griet Vermeir, André Vandierendonck, Cees Van Heeringen, Rudi Dierckx (J Nucl Med, 200211)
toward-clinical-application-neuropsychological-activation-probes.asp

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Aging gracefully: compensatory brain activity in high-performing older adults.

Whereas some older adults show significant cognitive deficits, others perform as well as young adults. We investigated the neural basis of these different aging patterns using positron emission tomography (PET). In PET and functional MRI (fMRI) studies, ...
Roberto Cabeza, Nicole D Anderson, Jill K Locantore, Anthony R McIntosh (Neuroimage, 200211)
aging-gracefully-compensatory-brain-activity-high-performing-older.asp

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The neural basis of intrusions in free recall and cued recall: a PET study in Alzheimers disease.

This study was designed to map in Alzheimers disease patients the correlations between resting-state brain glucose utilization measured by PET and the number of intrusions obtained by means of a specially designed episodic memory test separately in free ...
Béatrice Desgranges, Jean-Claude Baron, Bénédicte Giffard, Gaël Chételat, Catherine Lalevée, Fausto Viader, Vincent de la Sayette, Francis Eustache (Neuroimage, 200211)
neural-basis-intrusions-free-recall-cued-recall-pet-study-alzheimer-s.asp

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Skin potential response in letter recognition task as an alternative communication channel for individuals with severe motor disability.

OBJECTIVES: Skin potential responses (SPRs) to target and non-target stimuli in letter recognition tasks were studied to evaluate their potential as communication channels for individuals with severe motor disability. METHODS: SPRs were recorded from the ...
Reiko Tsukahara, Hisashi Aoki (Clin Neurophysiol, 200211)
skin-potential-response-letter-recognition-task-alternative.asp

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Dementia, asymmetry of temporal lobe structures, and apolipoprotein E genotype: relationships to cerebral atrophy and neuropsychological impairment.

We examined asymmetry of hippocampal volume as well as other temporal lobe structures (temporal lobe, temporal horn of the lateral ventricular system, parahippocampal and fusiform gyri) in 194 subjects from the Cache County, Utah study, with varying ...
Erin D Bigler, David F Tate, Michael J Miller, Sara A Rice, Cory D Hessel, Heath D Earl, Joann T Tschanz, Brenda Plassman, Kathleen A Welsh-Bohmer (J Int Neuropsychol Soc, 200211)
dementia-asymmetry-temporal-lobe-structures-apolipoprotein-e-genotype.asp

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Threat processing in women with bulimia.

Cognitive-behavioral treatments are the most commonly used approaches for bulimia nervosa. However, these treatments tend to produce only moderate remission rates. Therefore, it is useful to consider how experimental cognitive approaches can help to ...
Chris Ainsworth, Glenn Waller, Fiona Kennedy (Clin Psychol Rev, 200211)
threat-processing-women-bulimia.asp

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Semantic memory.

Our concepts about objects, states, and events are stored in a cognitive structure termed semantic memory. There are several types of neurologic disorders that may cause impairments of semantic memory. Clinical evaluations of these impairments are ...
Daniel Saumier, Howard Chertkow (Curr Neurol Neurosci Rep, 200211)
semantic-memory.asp

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Very late-onset schizophrenia-like psychosis: clinical and imaging characteristics in comparison with elderly patients with schizophrenia.

Studies of late-onset schizophrenia began in the early 1940s with work by M. Bleuler. Despite this fact, the emphasis on age of onset in young adulthood distracted researchers of schizophrenia from accumulating data on the subgroup of patients whose ...
Yoram Barak, Dov Aizenberg, Ilona Mirecki, Doron Mazeh, Anat Achiron (J Nerv Ment Dis, 200211)
late-onset-schizophrenia-like-psychosis-clinical-imaging.asp