Neuropsychological Tests

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Aging affects the engagement of the hippocampus during autobiographical memory retrieval.

Surprisingly little is known about the neural correlates of remembering real life events in the context of normal aging. We therefore asked young and older adults to retrieve real life autobiographical event memories accrued over decades, while their ...
Eleanor A Maguire, Christopher D Frith (Brain, 200307)
aging-affects-engagement-hippocampus-autobiographical-memory-retrieval.asp

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Diagnostic specificity and neuroanatomical validity of neurological abnormalities in first-episode psychoses.

OBJECTIVE: Neurological abnormalities are frequently seen in patients with first-episode psychotic disorders but are generally considered to be diagnostically nonspecific, neurologically nonlocalizing, and, hence, "soft." This study examined the ...
Matcheri S Keshavan, Richard D Sanders, John A Sweeney, Vaibhav A Diwadkar, Gerald Goldstein, Jay W Pettegrew, Nina R Schooler (Am J Psychiatry, 200307)
diagnostic-specificity-neuroanatomical-validity-neurological.asp

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Cognitive function in community-dwelling elderly women. Attentional demands and capacity to direct attention.

As individuals get older, their capacity to direct attention (CDA) appears to decline. The decline in CDA may be caused by age-related changes in the brain and demands on attentional mechanisms. These demands require older adults to expend significant ...
Debra A Jansen, Mary L Keller (J Gerontol Nurs, 200307)
cognitive-function-community-dwelling-elderly-women-attentional.asp

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Voxel- and VOI-based analysis of SPECT CBF in relation to clinical and psychological heterogeneity of mild cognitive impairment.

This study aimed to explore the heterogeneity of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and detect differences in regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) and cognitive function between progressive mild cognitive impairment (PMCI) and stable mild cognitive ...
Chaorui Huang, Lars-Olof Wahlund, Ove Almkvist, Dagmawi Elehu, Leif Svensson, Tomas Jonsson, Bengt Winblad, Per Julin (Neuroimage, 200307)
voxel-voi-based-analysis-spect-cbf-relation-clinical-psychological.asp

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Residual cognitive impairment in late-life depression after a 12-month period follow-up.

OBJECTIVES: This study investigated cognitive impairment in late-life depression in a follow-up design. The main objective was to assess the most important cognitive domains implicated in late-life depression, in patients who underwent pharmacological ...
M J Portella, T Marcos, L Rami, V Navarro, C Gastó, M Salamero (Int J Geriatr Psychiatry, 200307)
residual-cognitive-impairment-late-life-depression-after-month.asp

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Narrative and procedural discourse in temporal lobe epilepsy.

It is well established that some individuals with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) demonstrate language deficits at the single word level. However, discourse production rarely has been examined quantitatively within this group. This study compared adult TLE ...
Brian Bell, Christian Dow, E Ryann Watson, Austin Woodard, Bruce Hermann, Michael Seidenberg (J Int Neuropsychol Soc, 200307)
narrative-procedural-discourse-temporal-lobe-epilepsy.asp

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The neuropsychological profiles of mild Alzheimers disease and questionable dementia as compared to age-related cognitive decline.

Test scores from a comprehensive neuropsychological battery administered to 1602 subjects consisting of 1347 subjects with probable Alzheimers disease (AD), 100 subjects with questionable dementia (QD) and 155 non-demented elderly control subjects were ...
Elise Caccappolo-Van Vliet, Jennifer Manly, Ming-Xin Tang, Karen Marder, Karen Bell, Yaakov Stern (J Int Neuropsychol Soc, 200307)
neuropsychological-profiles-mild-alzheimer-s-disease-questionable.asp

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Endogenous context for visual processing of human faces and other objects.

The human ability to quickly recognise faces and objects is an important skill. This skill may be facilitated by the prior existence of context-setting functional brain states. MEG was used to test the hypothesis that such states may be defined ...
Sven Braeutigam, Stephen J Swithenby (Neuroreport, 200307)
endogenous-context-visual-processing-human-faces-other-objects.asp

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The effect of the duration of exposure to the electromagnetic field emitted by mobile phones on human attention.

Previous findings suggested the facilitating effect of the electromagnetic field emitted by mobile phones on human attention. This study aimed to examine the relationship between the facilitating effect and the duration of exposure to the electromagnetic ...
Tatia M C Lee, Pik-Kwan Lam, Lydia T S Yee, Chetwyn C H Chan (Neuroreport, 200307)
effect-duration-exposure-electromagnetic-field-emitted-mobile-phones.asp

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Cognitive asymmetries associated with apolipoprotein E genotype in patients with Alzheimers disease.

The relationship between apolipoprotein E (apoE) genotype and cognitive performance was examined in 200 patients with probable Alzheimers disease (AD). Differences between composite measures of verbal and nonverbal functioning were used to define ...
Michael J Finton, John A Lucas, Julie D Rippeth, Daryl L Bohac, Glenn E Smith, Robert J Ivnik, Ronald C Petersen, Neill R Graff-Radford (J Int Neuropsychol Soc, 200307)
cognitive-asymmetries-associated-apolipoprotein-e-genotype-patients.asp