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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"WCST"”.
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Executive Dysfunction following Traumatic Brain Injury and Factors Related to Impairment
… as measured by the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST), while accounting for effort given during testing, as measured by the Portland Digit Recognition Test. Results suggested a dose-response relationship between TBI severity and subsequent WCST deficits. Mild TBI patients who provided good effort …
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Utilization of the Wisconsin card sorting test in the diagnostic discrimination of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and learning disorders in children
… sensitivity of the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST; Heaton, Chelune, Talley, Kay, & Curtiss, 1993) in differentially identifying children who experience ADHD and RD-LD symptoms. The diagnostic battery used to identify ADHD, RD-LD, and Normal subjects included intellectual, academic achievement, …
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Prenatal PolyI:C induced schizophrenia-like cognitive inflexibilities in the male, but not female, rat adult offspring
… measured by the Wisconsin Card Sorting Task (WCST). Set-shifting is an essential cognitive process, in that it allows the individual to suppress non-reinforcing strategies and engage in new rewarding strategies. To date, little is known about the etiology of executive dysfunction in …
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Executive Function Differences In Medicated Depressed, Non-Medicated Depressed, And Non-Medicated Non-Depressed Individuals
… including the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST) Trials Administered, WCST Failure to Maintain Set, Trail Making Test (TMT) B, Stroop Word, Stroop Color, Stroop Color-Word, and Stroop Interference. The non-medicated non-depressed group performed better overall than those in the non-medicated …
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Norming of the Executive Control Battery in Children
… were compared to other measures of EF (Stroop, WCST) as well as non-EF measures (WISC-III, WRAT-R) via multiple regression analysis. Results indicate that the ECB demonstrates adequate variance when administered to a sample of children. The ECB was found to be a reliable measure, as internal …
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Effects of pesticides on the cognitive and behavioral functioning of Hispanic children in agricultural areas
… Memory Scale (CMS), Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST), Trial Making Test A (TMTA), and Trial Making Test B (TMTB). Parents and teachers completed behavioral measures: Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) and Teacher Report Form (TRF) respectively. All children provided an urine sample the day of …
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Executive Functioning and Memory Performance in ADHD and Asperger's Syndrome
… Test (CPT), Wisconsin Card Sorting Task (WCST), Tower of London Task (TOL), Trail Making Test, Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure (ROCF), Grooved Pegboard Test, and the Controlled Oral Word Association Test (COWAT). Memory was assessed using a subtest from the Wide Range Assessment of Memory …
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Envelhecimento normal e tomada de decisão: uma avaliação estrutural da circuitaria envolvida
… Stroop e Wisconsin de Classificação de Cartas (WCST)). Ainda destacam-se o accumbens, com alteração apenas de volume e correlação com o teste Stroop, e o putâmem com alteração volumétrica, prolongamento do tempo de relaxação T2 e correlação com os escores do WCST. Conclusão: Foram observadas …
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The role of interference in metacognitive monitoring
… Variables from the Wisconsin Card Sort Test (WCST) and the Stroop Color and Word Test (SCWT) measured susceptibility to interference. A monitoring task applied to a math aptitude test was used to measure monitoring ability. Pearson-product correlations showed no relationship among the …
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Behaviour disorders dopamine-related
… significant differences have emerged the WCST and NPI. However, it should be pointed out as ICD patients, compared to Parkinsoniani without compulsive disorder, P3a monsters lower latency than the P3b, as evident in healthy subjects.
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A wait-list controlled evaluation of the Qhubeka bicycle on an adolescent's physiology, executive function, and school performance
… across all three tests (N-Back, Arrow Flanker, WCST: p< 0.001). The results from this study are significant, as they are the first to assess anthropometric, physiological and executive function in South African adolescents from low-socioeconomic regions. It is evident that there are potential …
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Social dysfunction in chronic schizophrenia: nature, treatment and generalization
… dysfunction) on the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST).In the second phase, a longitudinal study compared the differential efficacy of behavioural versus cognitive-behavioural social skills training (SST), and monitored the effects on maintenance and generalization, focusing on social anxiety. …
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Momente des Übergangs
… bzw. beim Wisconsin Card Sorting Test[WCST]) bei verschiedenen gleichzeitig gültigen Antwortalternativen zu untersuchen. Dafür gibt es methodische und empirische Gründe. Zum einen wurde kritisiert, dass ein Teil der Wechselkosten durch die Verarbeitung des Hinweisreizes entsteht. Zum …
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Characterization and Differences Between Possible and Probable Mild Cognitive Impairment in an Alzheimer’s Disease Center
… group on the MMSE, TMT-A, TMT-B, Block Design, WCST, FAS, Animal Fluency, and BNT (p<.05). On the CVLT, normal controls demonstrated fewer intrusion errors, higher total learning scores, and better long delay free recall than both the possible and probable MCI groups, and similarly, the possible …
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The Neuropsychological Application of the WAIS-IV over the WAIS-III
… measures, with the exception of the WCST. The subtest appears to assess a wide range of abilities outside of the spatial reasoning skills purported by the test publishers. Specifically, the subtest was correlated with measures of processing speed, executive skills, and motor …
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Exploring the Dynamic Assessment Paradigm and its usefulness at Assessing Learning Potential of Schizophrenia Patients
This thesis examines the Dynamic Assessment (DA) paradigm (which involves pre-test, intervention, and post-test phases) as a tool in the assessment of Learning Potential ? a construct central to the DA paradigm that has been shown to provide indication of schizophrenia patients' rehabilitation …