Neuropsychological Tests

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Adapting mini-mental state examination for dementia screening among illiterate or minimally educated elderly Chinese.

BACKGROUND: Illiteracy is prevalent among current elderly Chinese. There are few brief cognitive tests in Chinese designed to screen those possibly demented for more detailed evaluation in a clinical setting. OBJECTIVES: The present study adapted the ...
Gelin Xu, John Stirling Meyer, Yuangui Huang, Fang Du, Munir Chowdhury, Minh Quach (Int J Geriatr Psychiatry, 200307)
adapting-mini-mental-state-examination-dementia-screening-illiterate.asp

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Frontostriatal abnormalities in adolescents with bipolar disorder: preliminary observations from functional MRI.

OBJECTIVE: This study investigated whether the functional abnormalities in prefrontal systems observed in adult bipolar disorder are manifested in adolescents with this illness. METHOD: Ten adolescents with bipolar disorder and 10 healthy comparison ...
Hilary P Blumberg, Andrés Martin, Joan Kaufman, Hoi-Chung Leung, Pawel Skudlarski, Cheryl Lacadie, Robert K Fulbright, John C Gore, Dennis S Charney, John H Krystal, Bradley S Peterson (Am J Psychiatry, 200307)
frontostriatal-abnormalities-adolescents-bipolar-disorder-preliminary.asp

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Reduced hippocampal activation during encoding and recognition of words in schizophrenia patients.

OBJECTIVE: In patients with schizophrenia, impaired hippocampal activation either during encoding or recognition tasks has been observed in a few functional imaging experiments. In this fMRI study, the authors report results of word encoding and ...
Frank Jessen, Lukas Scheef, Lars Germeshausen, Youlha Tawo, Martin Kockler, Kai-Uwe Kuhn, Wolfgang Maier, Hans H Schild, Reinhard Heun (Am J Psychiatry, 200307)
reduced-hippocampal-activation-encoding-recognition-words.asp

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Classifying lower limb dynamics in Parkinsons disease.

To classify lower limb dynamics in patients with Parkinsons disease (PD), we conducted a clinical study by using pedaling exercise.Twenty-seven patients with idiopathic PD were included in this study. We measured rotational velocities of pedals during ...
Kazuo Abe, Yoshiyuki Asai, Yoshimi Matsuo, Taishin Nomura, Shunsuke Sato, Satoru Inoue, Isao Mizukura, Sabro Sakoda (Brain Res Bull, 200307)
classifying-lower-limb-dynamics-parkinson-s-disease.asp

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The prevalence of dementia in a metropolitan city of South Korea.

BACKGROUND: There are few studies on the prevalence of dementia in South Korea. This study was designed to estimate the prevalence rate of dementia in a metropolitan city of South Korea, Busan. METHODS: This was a cross-sectional epidemiological study of ...
Jungsoon Kim, Ihnsook Jeong, Jin-Ho Chun, Suill Lee (Int J Geriatr Psychiatry, 200307)
prevalence-dementia-metropolitan-city-south-korea.asp

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Brain aging in normal Egyptians: cognition, education, personality, genetic and immunological study.

Studying the cognitive and immunological changes that occur in old age as well as genetic function have been considered an important subject to differentiate between normal brain aging and early dementia especially Alzheimers disease. The aim of this ...
Osamah Elwan, Obsis Madkour, Fadia Elwan, Mervat Mostafa, Azza Abbas Helmy, Maged Abdel-Naseer, Sanaa Abdel Shafy, Nervana El Faiuomy (J Neurol Sci, 200307)
brain-aging-normal-egyptians-cognition-education-personality-genetic.asp

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Absence epilepsy with onset before age three years: a heterogeneous and often severe condition.

PURPOSE: The classification of epilepsies and epileptic syndromes recognizes three syndromes with typical absences [TA, i.e., childhood and juvenile absence epilepsies (CAE and JAE), and epilepsy with myoclonic absences (EMA), none of which is ...
Yves Chaix, Géraldine Daquin, Franklin Monteiro, Nathalie Villeneuve, Virginie Laguitton, Pierre Genton (Epilepsia, 200307)
absence-epilepsy-onset-age-three-years-heterogeneous-severe-condition.asp

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Electrophysiological investigation of the effectiveness of methylphenidate in children with and without ADHD.

The Continuous Performance Test (CPT) is an appropriate instrument for assessment of correlates at the brain electrical activity level of attention and response to stimulant medication. The aim of the study was to confirm at the electrophysiological ...
J Seifert, P Scheuerpflug, K-E Zillessen, A Fallgatter, A Warnke (J Neural Transm, 200307)
electrophysiological-investigation-effectiveness-methylphenidate.asp

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Early and persistent alterations in prefrontal cortex MAO A and B in Alzheimers disease.

Both monoamine oxidase (MAO) A and MAO B in the brain have been implicated in the etiology of Alzheimers disease. MAO B is elevated in plaque-associated glia in Alzheimer brain. Elevations in MAO A in Alzheimer neurons have been linked to increases in ...
B P Kennedy, M G Ziegler, M Alford, L A Hansen, L J Thal, E Masliah (J Neural Transm, 200307)
early-persistent-alterations-prefrontal-cortex-mao-b-alzheimer-s.asp

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[3H]GR113808 binding to serotonin 5-HT(4) receptors in the postmortem neocortex of Alzheimer disease: a clinicopathological study.

Abnormalities in neural transmission of serotonin (5-HT) may play a role in both cognitive and neuropsychiatric features of Alzheimer disease (AD). We measured 5-HT(4) receptors in the postmortem frontal and temporal cortex of 34 AD subjects and 15 ...
M K Lai, S W Tsang, P T Francis, M M Esiri, T Hope, O F Lai, I Spence, C P Chen (J Neural Transm, 200307)
h-gr--binding-serotonin-ht-receptors-postmortem-neocortex.asp