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The SKT Neuropsychological Test Battery
Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology, 1992The SKT is a brief neuropsychological test battery that includes nine performance subtests that define two independent factors of memory and attention deficit. It requires no more than 15 minutes to administer and has five parallel forms. Developed in Germany, it has been used successfully to document improved performance of patients in trials of ...
J E, Overall, R, Schaltenbrand
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Executive Dysfunction and Neuropsychological Testing
2008Publisher Summary A dysexecutive syndrome is expected in brain disorders that affect any of the different parts of the frontostriatal system. Executive functions should thus be systematically assessed in patients with cognitive, behavioral, or motor disturbances.
Bruno, Dubois +2 more
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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.
L M, de Sonneville +3 more
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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 recognized
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Neuropsychological Testing and Concussions
Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine, 2012R and clinicians have raised awareness about the serious consequences of sport-related concussion, which occur 1.6 to 3.8 million times per year in the United States alone. Although the concept of the second-impact syndrome (a second head trauma causing brain swelling and death) remains controversial, the published cases do raise concerns.
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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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Psychometric concerns in neuropsychological testing
NeuroRehabilitation, 2001This article describes measurement and norming problems with commonly used neuropsychological tests. Test standards regarding differential diagnoses, validity and reliability, the need for manuals, standardized administration, screening, and research versions are discussed.
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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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