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Neuropsychological tests in Alzheimer’s disease
Aging Clinical and Experimental Research, 2001The recent development of symptomatic pharmacological treatment for Alzheimer's disease (AD) and the probable introduction of new therapies in a near future make the assessment of dementia at its different stages an even greater scientific and public health challenge.
François Boller, G. Dalla Barba
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Neuropsychological and Computerized Testing
2020Neuropsychological testing (NPT) needs to be reserved for patients requiring particularly detailed testing when the symptoms are covert and subtle or where deficits need more precise cognitive appraisal. This applies especially to those with subjective complaints (so- called “worried well”), where close monitoring of cognitive deficits over time is ...
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A Guide to Clinical Neuropsychological Testing
Archives of Neurology, 1994Quantitative measures of cognition, which are administered using a uniform procedure and interpreted in relation to the normal range of scores, are informative for clinical and investigative purposes. The distributions of test scores obtained from samples of neurologically intact persons of various ages and educational levels provide a reference for ...
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Chapter 6 Neuropsychological testing: bedside approaches
2008Publisher Summary This chapter introduces an anatomical schema of cognitive failures and then proposes ways to test mental functions. The testing of mental functions through concise clinical tests or extensive neuropsychological batteries has long been an important instrument for localizing brain lesions.
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Race-Norming of Neuropsychological Tests
Neuropsychology Review, 2009Recent studies in the United States indicate that some neurologically intact minority groupings perform well below White Americans on neuropsychological tests. This has sparked the production of race-norms, especially for African Americans, that seek to reduce false positive rates (i.e., neurologically intact individuals misdiagnosed with cognitive ...
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Preliminary neuropsychological test results
European Journal of Pediatrics, 1990A series of information processing tasks was administered to 22 PKU children aged 8.5 years who had been under dietary treatment since birth as well as to 20 controls of the same age. This contribution presents the results of two tasks from this series: a continuous performance task and a calculation task.
U. Batzler +3 more
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Factor Analysis of Neuropsychological Tests
Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1969The Halstead-Reitan Battery, 2 Benton tests and the WISC were administered to a sample of normal children, ages 5 to 8. The results of a principal-component factor analysis indicated that at least nine different areas were being measured. The areas of neuropsychological functioning were: Analytic-Synthetic Visual-motor Ability, Undirected Motor Speed,
James Bjerring +2 more
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Neuropsychological testing and assessment for dementia
Alzheimer's & Dementia, 2007This evidence‐based review examines the utility of brief cognitive tests and neuropsychological testing (NPT) in the detection and diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and dementia. All patients presenting with cognitive complaints are recommended to have a brief screening test administered to document the presence and severity of memory ...
John D. Fisk +4 more
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NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING RESULTS
Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 2000Earlier clinical hypotheses regarding borderline personality disorder, based on projective psychological testing and intelligence tests, are examined. Recent findings of comparative deficits in this population in the domains of verbal and visual memory as well as visual perception are reviewed, together with clinical relevance.
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Neuropsychological Testing in the Diagnosis of Dementia
Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology, 2006Neuropsychological testing can play a major role in the diagnosis of dementia by documenting cognitive deficits, the key criteria for the diagnosis. Because the most common dementia diagnosis, Alzheimer’s disease, focuses on memory impairment, tests to assess this domain and to detect and characterize memory deficit are well established with ...
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