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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"neuropsychological test performance"”.
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The Impact of Incentives on Neuropsychological Test Performance: An Analog Study
… yet to explore the impact of other incentives on test performance. The present study sought to examine the rate of effort test failure, symptom report, and neuropsychological test performance in college students assigned to one of three conditions: Fake Good, Fake Bad, and No Incentive conditions. …
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The effect of observational method and task complexity on neuropsychological test performance
… despite research clearly demonstrating altered performance on neuropsychological tests under such conditions. Past research into the social facilitation effect suggests attentional conflict (Baron, 1986; Manstead & Semin, 1980) and increased anxiety (Guerin & Innes, 1982; Guerin, 1983) when …
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Neuropsychological Test Performance and Other Predictors of Adult Outcome in a Prospective Follow-Up Study of Children with ADHD
… follow-up study which investigates the neuropsychological test performance of children with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and examines whether test performance and severity of childhood disruptive behaviors predict adult psychiatric status and functioning in major …
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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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A preliminary investigation into the relationship between age, gender, education, occupation and "race" and performance on selected neuropsychological tests in a non-clinical adult sample
… level, Occupational Status and "Race" on neuropsychological test performance in a large, convenient, non-clinical sample. The Controlled Oral Word Association Test, Wechsler Paired-Associate Learning Test and Digit Supraspan was administered to 329 adults in the age range 18 - 80. The …
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Diagnosis Threat in a Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Population
… study examined the effect of diagnosis threat on neuropsychological test performance. Forty-nine participants with a history of mTBI were randomly assigned to either a Diagnosis Threat group or a Control group. The Diagnosis Threat group was told that they were selected to participate based on …
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Diagnosis Threat in a Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Population
… study examined the effect of diagnosis threat on neuropsychological test performance. Forty-nine participants with a history of mTBI were randomly assigned to either a Diagnosis Threat group or a Control group. The Diagnosis Threat group was told that they were selected to participate based on …
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The Relationship Between Neuropsychological Performance and Daily Functioning in Individuals with Alzheimer's Disease
The results of neuropsychological tests are often used by clinicians to make important decisions regarding a demented patient's ability to competently and/or independently perform activities of daily living. However, the ecological validity of most neuropsychological instruments has yet to be …
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Hypertension and Neurocognitive impairment as measured by the Zambia Neurobehavioural test battery--A pilot study
… the clinics with the help of clinic staff. The neuropsychological domains measured in the present study were executive functioning, fluency, verbal episodic memory, visual episodic memory, motor dexterity, working memory, and speed of information processing. The measures used included: Blood …
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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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Diagnosis Threat in Adults with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
… including a lack of an objective diagnostic test for ADHD (Stefanatos & Baron, 2007). One construct that has not been well studied in ADHD populations is the effect of negative expectations on neuropsychological test performance, which researchers have called "diagnosis threat" (Suhr & …
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Diagnosis Threat in Adults with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
… including a lack of an objective diagnostic test for ADHD (Stefanatos & Baron, 2007). One construct that has not been well studied in ADHD populations is the effect of negative expectations on neuropsychological test performance, which researchers have called "diagnosis threat" (Suhr & …
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Neuropsychological Aspects of Fetal Transplant Surgery for the Treatment of Parkinson's Disease: A Longitudinal Study
… diminishes. This study utilized medical, neuropsychological and quality of life data that were collected as part of a double-blind placebo surgery trial in which 40 patients were randomly assigned to receive bilateral transplantation of embryonic mesencephalic dopamine cells into the …
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Awareness of deficits and on-road driving performance among persons with acquired brain injury
<p>This study examined the relationship of neuropsychological and on-road driving evaluations among adults with acquired brain injury (ABI), and the extent to which that relationship is moderated by awareness of deficit. Awareness of deficit may partly explain mixed findings regarding the …
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The effects of acculturation, age and years in the United States on RBANS performance in Russian bilinguals
… number of years lived in the United States, and performance on the Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status Normative Update (RBANS) in a sample of Russian bilingual adults. There is a dearth of research conducted on neuropsychological assessment measures normed in …
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Neurocognitive disorders in young adults commencing highly active antiretroviral treatment in the Western Cape
… 170 participants completed baseline clinical and neuropsychological assessments. Laboratory investigations included apolipoprotein E (APOE) genotyping. The performance of the International HIV Dementia Scale (IHDS) as a brief screening tool was analysed using a receiver operating characteristic …
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Assessment of cognitive ageing: Applying generalisability theory, Rasch and network analyses to establish reliability and validity of measures
… domains of TICS-M and MMSE in relation to neuropsychological test performance, advancing the understanding of global network mechanisms involved in assessments of cognitive ageing and relations between cognitive functions. Overall, this thesis involved analyses of three longitudinal …
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Exploratory Factor Analysis of the Nova Multilingual Neuropsychological Battery (NMNB)
… factor structure of the Nova Multilingual Neuropsychological Battery (NMNB) and evaluated the influence of demographic variables such as language fluency and acculturation on test performance. The NMNB is a comprehensive test designed to measure cognitive abilities in Spanish/English …
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An exploration of sociodemographic and psychosocial determinants of cognitive performance in a peri-urban clinic population of people with HIV in Cape Town, South Africa
… standard to confirm cognitive impairment is a neuropsychological assessment. However, accurate interpretation of neuropsychological test performance requires consideration of, for instance, how impairment is determined and how accurately the contribution of non-HIV factors to poor cognitive …
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Visuell-räumliche Navigationsleistungen und parietales Cortexvolumen bei schizophrenen Patienten im Paradigma der "Virtuellen Realität"
… Park" zwei unterschiedliche dreidimensionale Testumgebungen. Um diese neuropsychologischen Variablen mit neuronanatomischen Variablen - dem Parietallappen - assoziieren zu können, wurden zudem die Cortices der Probanden mit Hilfe eines Magnetresonanztomographen erfasst. Explorativ wurde zum …