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Showing 1 to 20 of 673 for “"neuropsychological"”.
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The Detection of Neuropsychological Malingering
… control group. The following six neuropsychological measures were utilized: Rey 15-Item Memory Test, Controlled Oral Word Association Test, Finger Oscillation Test, WAIS-R Neuropsychological Instrument (Vocabulary, Information, and Similarities subtests), Booklet Category Test, and …
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Neuropsychological Assessment of Battered Women
… examined the effect of physical battering on the neuropsychological functioning of women. Twenty-five battered women and twenty-five non-battered women were administered a neuropsychological screening battery (11 separate tests, yielding 16 variables) to assess for possible deficits in the areas …
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Neuropsychological Impairment in Women Alcoholics
… to investigate patterns of intact and impaired neuropsychological test performance in alcoholic women. On the basis of past research with alcoholic males, it was expected that abilities associated with right hemisphere functioning (nonverbal, abstract) would be affected by alcoholism while those …
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Neuropsychological Correlates of Borderline Personality Disorder
… personality disorder (BPD) displayed deficits in neuropsychological functioning when compared with healthy controls. Participants with BPD performed worse on all measures of cognitive functioning: attention, verbal memory, processing speed and a measure of general neuropsychological functioning. …
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Neuropsychological Correlates of Borderline Personality Disorder
… personality disorder (BPD) displayed deficits in neuropsychological functioning when compared with healthy controls. Participants with BPD performed worse on all measures of cognitive functioning: attention, verbal memory, processing speed and a measure of general neuropsychological functioning. …
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Neuropsychological Symptoms Associated with Multiple Shunts
… previous research has failed to address the neuropsychological ramifications of shunt infections and shunt replacements. Given the high prevalence of hydrocephalus in patients with spina bifida, this patient population was chosen for this study. Results from this study indicate a significant …
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Computational Psychiatry - Neuropsychological Bayesian reinforcement learning
… learning under uncertainty. We conducted a neuropsychological experiment on over 100 human subjects to measure a suite of executive functions. The primary experimental task (Card Sorting) gauges one's ability to learn, via inference, the structure of some latent pattern that drives the …
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Assessment of deaf children with neuropsychological measures
… modified tests of the original Halstead Reitan Neuropsychological Battery for Older Children (HRNB-C). Specifically, performance of 42 deaf children (mean age = 13.3 years, SD = 0.7 yrs.) and a matched sample of 42 hearing peers was examined on the HRNB-C Category, Tactual Performance, and Trail …
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Neuropsychological Predictors of Incompetency to Stand Trial
… referred for competency restoration on neuropsychological measures. Specifically, competent defendants and incompetent defendants were compared on several measures assessing functioning in seven cognitive domains. Competent defendants performed significantly better than incompetent …
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Cognitive, Academic, and Neuropsychological Effects of Treatment
… time off therapy on cognitive, achievement, and neuropsychological functioning of post treatment children with Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia (ALL). Participants consisted of sixteen sibling pairs between the ages of eight and fourteen who were grouped into the high or low group for number of …
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Psychological and neuropsychological correlates of Postconcussional Disorder
Chronic symptoms of Postconcussional Disorder (PCD) occur in a significant minority of mild brain injury patients. The latest research suggests an interactionistic perspective as the most logical and empirically supported pathogenesis for the development and maintenance of PCD. The interactionistic …
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Predictors of Neuropsychological Status in Cardiac Patients
… were assessed using a chart review, standardized neuropsychological measures, and standard questionnaires, with a final sample size of 52 (11 controls, 41 rehabilitation subjects). For Aim 1, health (hypertension, CHF, surgery history), and cognitive reserve (education, premorbid IQ) variables …
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From objects to action: a neuropsychological analysis
This thesis is concerned with the factors that determine the performance of everyday action. Six empirical chapters are subsequently presented. First, I sought to investigate the effects of the presence of distractors and of task load on the performance of everyday life tasks, comparing a patient …
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Neuropsychological and Psychosocial Predictors of Children's Depression
… A second goal was to examine models integrating neuropsychological and psychosocial predictors of depressive symptoms. Low Right Hemisphere Bias (RHB) predicted depressive symptoms in boys (extending the Heller model of emotion; see Heller & Nitschke, 1998), but not in girls. High RHB did not …
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Neuropsychological impairment in children following head injury
… to (a) establish the nature of intellectual and neuropsychological deficits that occur after head injuries of differing severity in children aged 6 to 14 years, (b) establish the nature of recovery curves in the first year after injury, and (c) determine which medical and psychosocial factors are …
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Behavioral, physiological, and neuropsychological correlates of hostility
This experiment tested three hypotheses linking the right cerebral regulation of hostility and physiological arousal. First, replication of previous research supporting heightened physiological (systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, and heart rate) reactivity among high hostile …
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A Neuropsychological Investigation of Cerebral Dominance and Dyslexia
Numerous investigators have sought a connection between dyslexia, or difficulty in learning to read, and some identifiable abnormality of central nervous system structure or function. Building on evidence accumulated in previous studies, one experimenter, Wltelson (1974, 1976, 1977), developed an …
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Neuropsychological subgroups of dementia of the Alzheimer's type
The present study considered the notion that Neuropsychological subgroups exist within the diagnosis of Dementia of the Alzheimer's Type (DAT). Specifically, the scores on the Cognitive Examination (CAMCOG) of the Cambridge Index of Mental Disorders in the Elderly for 51 DAT patients and 79 normal …
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Neuropsychological profiles of children and adolescents with craniosynostosis
… empirical literature addressing the long-term neuropsychological consequences of these disorders. Of that available, cognitive fuctions beyond global intelligence have seldom been examined, and no prior studies have comprehensively evaluated the wide array of cognitive skills that are important …
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Neuropsychological Functioning in Aging National Football League Retirees
… However, research is generally limited on the neuropsychological functioning among NFL retirees, and no studies to date have investigated the cognitive performance of NFL retirees over time. Study One was a critical review of research on neuropsychological functioning among NFL retirees. …
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