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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"neuropsychological deficits"”.
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Social perception and neuropsychological deficits in mild cognitive impairment
… the relationship between social perception and neuropsychological functioning. Ninety-six healthy participants (females = 69, M age = 62.74, SD = 8.1) above the age of 50 years were recruited from the community, and 21 participants (females =10, M age = 72.24, SD = 10.4) with a diagnosis of MCI …
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Subjective cognitive complaints in HIV infection: Utility in predicting neuropsychological deficits.
… subjective cognitive complaints and actual neuropsychological skills in HIV-infected individuals. The sample consisted of 156 HIV-positive adults (148 men; 8 women), of whom 18 were asymptomatic (CDC-A), 61 were mildly symptomatic (CDC-B), and 76 had AIDS-defining illnesses or CD4 counts …
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Neuropsychological Deficits in Adolescents with Psychopathic Characteristics: Callous and Unemotional Symptoms
… base, additional research is needed to clarify neuropsychological profile of psychopathy in connection to specific characteristics in order to develop successful interventions to improve the prognosis and outcome of psychopathy.
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Neurocognitive and Psychosocial Profiles of Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis and Transverse Myelitis
… with multiple sclerosis (MS) are at risk for neuropsychological deficits due to cerebral involvement, but establishing a clear profile remains difficult due to disease complexity. Emerging evidence also shows neuropsychological deficits and the possibility of brain-based involvement in youth …
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A cognitive profile of South African children with traumatic brain injury
… experienced in childhood can lead to persistent neuropsychological deficits months, even years post-injury. However, there still exists a dearth of research on pediatric TBI (pTBI), more so in developing countries like South Africa as most pediatric studies have been conducted on Western …
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Neuropsychological and Neuroimaging Outcomes Following Moderate to Severe Paediatric Traumatic Brain Injury in South Africa
… Despite this, few studies have investigated the neuropsychological and/or neuroimaging outcomes of pTBI in South Africa. The study was designed as a capacity-building exercise to demonstrate the successful collection of data from different sites involved in a developing international …
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Working Memory, Processing Speed, and Academic Achievement in Adults with ADHD
… disorder (ADHD), he proposes that working memory deficits resulting from ADHD may cause impairments in reading comprehension. ADHD has been associated with poorer processing speed and working memory as well as academic underachievement in some studies. However, more research is needed examining …
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A norm- and control-referenced comparative study of the neuropsychological profiles of shift workers and patients with obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA)
… cycle disruption in shift work may underlie neuropsychological deficits, which in turn meditate these functional impairments. The current study uses a control-referenced and norm-referenced design to explore in detail the subcomponents of attention/executive functions and motor coordination …
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Neuropsychological function as a result of chronic exposure to methadone and other opioids
… exposure to opioids has been associated with neuropsychological impairment during both active use and following a period of abstinence. The overall objective of this thesis was to review the relevant prior literature in a systematic manner and subsequently to describe the effects of chronic …
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MRS and Neuropsychological Outcome in Children with Non-accidental TBI
… empirical studies have specifically examined the neuropsychological consequences in this population of children. The current study examined the relationship between clinical variables, Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (1H-MRS), and neuropsychological outcome in this high-risk population of …
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Polymorphisms in the COMT and MAOA genes and their consequences for clinical, neuropsychological and neuroimaging dimensions in a population at high risk of schizophrenia
… In addition to clinical symptoms, sufferers show neuropsychological deficits. Neuroimaging changes including deficits in frontal and temporal lobe structures can be seen in subjects with the condition. Of the many aetiological perspectives of Schizophrenia the heritability of the illness and the …
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Neuropsychological Profiles in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy With and Without a History of Traumatic Brain Injury
Neuropsychological deficits have long been observed in those with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). Language and verbal memory are often impaired in individuals with left TLE and visuospatial and visual memory can be impaired in patients with right TLE. Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is the most common …
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Neuropsychological Comparisons Of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Subtype And Body Dysmorphic Disorder Symptomatology
… found to be associated with executive function deficits and other neuropsychological correlates, few studies have compared the two disorders directly in this regard. Further, some research has indicated that OCD symptom dimensions are associated with varying patterns of neuropsychological …
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Cognitive Functioning of Male Adult Children of Alcoholics and Control Subjects While Under the Influence of Acute Alcohol Intoxication
… associated with proposed evoked potential and neuropsychological deficits among subjects with a positive history for alcoholism. The results failed to demonstrate predicted baseline deficits among ACA subjects in any of the dependent measures or placebo expectancy effects from either group. …
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Investigating the effects of acute intracranial pressure and brain oxygenation on neuropsychological outcomes 12 months after severe pediatric traumatic brain injury
… aimed to investigate the nature and severity of neuropsychological deficits in pTBI patients one year after injury and to investigate the association between acute stage physiological changes in intracranial pressure (ICP) and brain tissue oxygenation (PbtO2) and neuropsychological outcomes one …
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Exploring obesity, ADHD severity, and disordered eating behavior among college students
… increase risk for binge eating work is unclear. Neuropsychological deficits are common to all disorders and may help to explain the relations observed. The aim of this study was to explore whether neuropsychological dysfunction, especially inhibitory control weaknesses, moderate the association …
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Pharmacy Internet Navigation Skills in Older Adults with HIV Disease: Influence of Health Literacy and Association with Medication Management
… be affected by a multitude of factors, including neuropsychological deficits and low health literacy. The current study aimed to: 1) examine whether health literacy modulates the effects of HIV on pharmacy INS speed and accuracy; and 2) evaluate whether pharmacy INS are related to medication …
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Moral competence and the psychopath.
… (such as children, and those with particular neuropsychological deficits), whom we would normally grant as having a minimal capacity to form moral judgments. I also argue that this incorrectly excludes moral judgments and relevant moral knowledge that can be expressed independently of rational …
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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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Social dysfunction in chronic schizophrenia: nature, treatment and generalization
… normal controls. The non-paranoid group had neuropsychological deficits (executive 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 …
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