Neuropsychological Tests

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Increase in prefrontal cortex serotonin 2A receptors following estrogen treatment in postmenopausal women.

OBJECTIVE: This study investigated the effect of estrogen on brain serotonin 2A (5-HT(2A)) receptors in postmenopausal women and whether there was any correlation of receptor changes with cognition and mood. METHOD: Ten postmenopausal subjects underwent ...
Akira Kugaya, C Neill Epperson, Sami Zoghbi, Christopher H van Dyck, Yankun Hou, Masahiro Fujita, Julie K Staley, Pradeep K Garg, John P Seibyl, Robert B Innis (Am J Psychiatry, 200308)
increase-prefrontal-cortex-serotonin-receptors-following-estrogen.asp

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Neuropsychological effects of ethylene dichloride exposure.

Production of 1,2-dichloroethane (EDC) has increased and exposure to it has been reported to produce adverse effects in animals and CNS effects in humans. A group of 221 EDC exposed hazardous clean-up workers incurred chronic exposure to EDC without ...
Rosemarie M Bowler, Sabine Gysens, Christopher Hartney (Neurotoxicology, 200308)
neuropsychological-effects-ethylene-dichloride-exposure.asp

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Characteristics of trees drawn by patients with paranoid schizophrenia.

The objective of the present study was to investigate the relationship between schizophrenia subtype and morphological characteristics of trees drawn in the Baum test. Subjects comprised the following three groups: 20 patients diagnosed with paranoid ...
Hiroyuki Inadomi, Goro Tanaka, Yasuyuki Ohta (Psychiatry Clin Neurosci, 200308)
characteristics-trees-drawn-patients-paranoid-schizophrenia.asp

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Prevalence of executive impairment in patients seen by a psychiatry consultation service.

The prevalence of impairment of executive function among 50 medical inpatients referred for psychiatric consultation was assessed by using the Executive Interview (EXIT25) and an executive clock-drawing task (CLOX). The Mini-Mental Status Examination ...
Jason E Schillerstrom, Melissa S Deuter, Rob Wyatt, Stephen L Stern, Donald R Royall (Psychosomatics, 200307-08)
prevalence-executive-impairment-patients-psychiatry-consultation.asp

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Differential effects on cognitive functioning in 13- to 16-year-olds prenatally exposed to cigarettes and marihuana.

Cognitive performance was examined in 145 thirteen- to sixteen-year-old adolescents for whom prenatal exposure to marihuana and cigarettes had been ascertained. The subjects were from a low-risk, predominantly middle-class sample participating in an ...
Peter A Fried, Barbara Watkinson, Robert Gray (Neurotoxicol Teratol, 200307-08)
differential-effects-cognitive-functioning--year-olds-prenatally.asp

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Comparison of Pueraria lobata with hormone replacement therapy in treating the adverse health consequences of menopause.

OBJECTIVE: Pueraria lobata (PL) is used as a traditional Chinese herbal remedy for menopausal symptoms, as well as an ingredient in preparations for conditions affecting menopausal women, such as osteoporosis, coronary heart disease, and some ...
Jean Woo, Edith Lau, Suzanne C Ho, Francis Cheng, Cynthia Chan, Agnes S Y Chan, Christopher J Haines, Thomas Y K Chan, Martin Li, Aprille Sham (Menopause, 200307-08)
comparison-pueraria-lobata-hormone-replacement-therapy-treating.asp

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MR spectroscopy in Alzheimers disease: gender differences in probabilistic learning capacity.

Degenerative alterations of cortical and subcortical regions in Alzheimer disease (AD) can be estimated by the extent of brain metabolite changes as measured by magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging (MRSI). A neuropsychological assessment may ...
Michael Colla, Gabriele Ende, Markus Bohrer, Michael Deuschle, Golo Kronenberg, Fritz Henn, Isabella Heuser (Neurobiol Aging, 200307-08)
mr-spectroscopy-alzheimer-s-disease-gender-differences-probabilistic.asp

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Cerebrospinal fluid sulfatide is decreased in subjects with incipient dementia.

We recently noted a profound decline in brain sulfatides (ST) in subjects who died with incipient dementia due to Alzheimers disease. Herein, we measured ST levels in cerebrospinal fluid in cognitively normal elderly and in subjects with mild cognitive ...
Xianlin Han, Anne M Fagan, Hua Cheng, John C Morris, Chengjie Xiong, David M Holtzman (Ann Neurol, 200307)
cerebrospinal-fluid-sulfatide-decreased-subjects-incipient-dementia.asp

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Performance and normative values of a concise neuropsychological test (CAMCOG) in an elderly population sample.

BACKGROUND: CAMCOG is a widely used brief neuropsychological test. To date no normative values are available for English speaking individuals representative of the general population. OBJECTIVES: The aims of the study were to describe the population ...
Joanna G Williams, Felicia A Huppert, Fiona E Matthews, Judith Nickson, (Int J Geriatr Psychiatry, 200307)
performance-normative-values-concise-neuropsychological-test-camcog.asp

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Cognitive support at encoding attenuates age differences in recollective experience among adults of lower frontal lobe function.

Free recall and recollective experience were investigated in relation to low and high cognitive support at encoding and to neuropsychological measures of frontal lobe function (FLF) in 105 healthy adults divided into 3 age groups (young, young-old, old). ...
David Bunce (Neuropsychology, 200307)
cognitive-support-encoding-attenuates-age-differences-recollective.asp