Return to work represents a significant marker of functional outcome for persons who have suffered a brain injury. Neuropsychological assessment forms an integral part of treatment planning following brain injury and aims to document cognitive strengths and weaknesses, including general intellectual abilities. Neuropsychological ...

... and independent effects of chemical ... Development of automated neuropsychological assessment software ... and other human performance ...

... Issues and Challenges with Rapid Neuropsychological Assessment', convened by the University of Toronto Concussion Program, University of ...

... Neuropsychological Assessment Metrics (ANAM4) Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Battery to establish individual neurocognitive performance baselines ...

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... politics, and other areas researched by Joint Forces Staff College from 1985 to ... Title : Internet Enabled Aviation Neuropsychological Assessment. ...

Estimates of premorbid intellect are often used in neuropsychological assessment to make inferences about cognitive decline. To optimize the method of controlling for premorbid intellect in assessments of prodromal neurodegenerative disease, we examined performance on the American National Adult Reading Test (ANART; administered during ...

Estimates of premorbid intellect are often used in neuropsychological assessment to make inferences about cognitive decline. To optimize the method of controlling for premorbid intellect in assessments of prodromal neurodegenerative disease, we examined performance on the American National Adult Reading Test (ANART; administered during ...

Two recent publications in Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology (ACN) have been used by defense attorneys as the centerpiece for an argument that only a 'fixed' battery approach, exemplified by the Halstead-Reitan battery (HRB), satisfies the Daubert criteria for admissibility; and therefore, the HRB represents the only method of forensic ...

Alternative methods of producing abbreviations of single words for use in automated military systems were empirically evaluated. Each of 50 enlisted men performed three tasks designed to assess five different abbreviation methods including two versions of...

The abbreviated Barcelona Test (a-BT) is an instrument widely used in Spain and Latin American countries for general neuropsychological assessment. The purpose of the present study was to provide new norms for the a-BT as part of the Neuronorma project. The sample consisted of 346 healthy controls. Overlapping cell procedure and ...

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The document contains glossaries of terms and abbreviations compiled from selected reports issued between 1987 and 1992 by the Health Program and the Biological and Behavioral Sciences Program.

U.S. military troops deploying to war zones are currently administered the Automated Neuropsychological Assessment Metrics (ANAM4) Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Battery to establish individual neurocognitive performance baselines. In part, the utility of t...

Deficit schizophrenia is a relatively homogeneous subtype of patients which is considered helpful to explore the pathogenesis of schizophrenia. The aim of the present study was to reexamine the clinical characteristics of deficit (n=30) and nondeficit schizophrenia (n=93) in a Chinese sample and investigate the differences of neurocognitive function among the two subtypes of schizophrenia and the ...

The nature of neuropsychological assessment and its application in the school environment are discussed. Neuropsychology is the study of how the brain and nervous system affect thinking and behavior. A complete neuropsychological assessment requires gathering and analyzing information on a ...

This paper reviews the pros and cons of the traditional paper and pencil and the newer computerised neuropsychological tests in the management of sports concussion. The differences between diagnosing concussion on the field and neuropsychological assessment at follow up and decision making with regard to return to play are described. ...

... Data collection method: Neuropsychological testing was conducted to assess attention, executive function, verbal memory, visual memory, intelligence, ...

... specialist, expert witness testimony, combat psychology, Confidentiality, desertion, fitness, MMPI assessment, hypnosis, clinical neuropsychology ...

... abilities, Gamache, Levinson, Reeves, Bidyuk, & Brantley (2005) conducted a 4-year longitudinal study in and near Chernobyl, Ukraine. ...

... The sports concussion studies to assess neuropsychological function after concussion continues and participants have been successfully recruited. ...

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... Automated Neuropsychological Assessment Metrics (ANAM) was implemented in brain concussion studies of the 82nd Airborne at Ft. ...

Assessment of concussion can be challenging for medical practitioners given the different factors associated with each individual injury. The use of neuropsychological testing provides an objective method in the evaluation and management of concussion. Over the last 20 years it has become increasingly useful in the realm of sports concussion and has been ...

Relationships between substance use, severity of psychosis, and neuropsychological functioning were examined, together with their associations with treatment response and retention status. Participants included 477 people with psychosis (354 volunteers registered on a research database, and 123 enrolled in a treatment trial for substance misuse). Variables of primary interest ...

To examine neuropsychological outcomes associated with OIF deployment. Secondary objectives include identification of risk and resiliency factors for adverse neuropsychological outcomes. Prospective cohort design in which deploying Army soldiers are asses...

Neuropsychological aspects are of relevance to a variety of psychological concerns, especially in assessments. But is this trend represented in journals which do not explicitly refer to neuropsychologists? To investigate this question, publications in 2008 and 2009 editions of representative German journals on child psychology and psychiatry were ...

The ideographic, syndrome analysis and the nomothetic, standardized test battery approaches to neuropsychological assessment are compared and contrasted within the context of advances in noninvasive technology readily available for use within the examiner's office. By demonstrating the relative strengths and benefits of syndrome analysis, it is suggested ...

Neuropsychological impairments (NPI) can lead to difficulties in daily functioning and ultimately contribute to poor health outcomes. However, evidence for the feasibility of NPI assessment in resource-limited settings using tests developed in high literacy/high education cultures is sparse. The main objectives were to: (1) determine the feasibility and ...

This study examined the relationship between the developmental trajectories of neuropsychological functioning and ADHD symptomatology in a longitudinal sample of children ages 9 to 14. Participants and measures were derived from the Multimodal Treatment Study for ADHD including 534MTA participants and 254 normal controls. Despite improvement over time, MTA participants ...

This report is primarily concerned with reporting on the normative results obtained on a large sample of serious adult offenders. An expanded Halstead-Reitan Neuropsychological Test Battery was administered to 584 adult offenders (OF), 132 normal controls (NC), and 494 acute psychiatric patients (PP). Subjects were between 18 and 44 years of age. Descriptive statistics for all ...

The area of adult learning disabilities is reviewed from a neurobiological and neuropsychological perspective. The paper covers possible pathophysiologic bases in dyslexia, neurobehavioral disorders that may coexist with learning disorders, neuropsychological assessment methods, treatment in the context of brain plasticity and recovery ...

The processing of abbreviations in reading was examined with an eye movement experiment. Abbreviations were of 2 distinct types: acronyms (abbreviations that can be read with the normal grapheme-phoneme correspondence [GPC] rules, such as NASA) and initialisms (abbreviations in which the GPCs are letter names, such ...

The processing of abbreviations in reading was examined with an eye movement experiment. Abbreviations were of 2 distinct types: acronyms (abbreviations that can be read with the normal grapheme-phoneme correspondence [GPC] rules, such as NASA) and initialisms (abbreviations in which the GPCs are letter names, such ...

Apolipoprotein E4 (apoE4) and female sex are risk factors for developing Alzheimer's disease. It is unclear whether apoE4 contributes to behavioral function at younger ages. Standard neuropsychological assessments (IQ, attention, executive function) and a test developed in this laboratory (Memory Island test of spatial learning and memory) were used to ...

Neuropsychology is poised for transformations of its concepts and methods, leveraging advances in neuroimaging, the human genome project, psychometric theory, and information technologies. It is argued that a paradigm shift towards evidence-based science and practice can be enabled by innovations, including: (1) formal definition of neuropsychological ...

in these arteries do not result from their own vascular activity but, instead, from changes in the blood demanded of cerebral blood flow velocity and oxygenation levels were collected during an abbreviated 12-min vigilance that changes in cerebral blood flow occur during the performance of sustained attention or vigilance tasks

Despite interest in early neuropsychological status as a possible contributor to children's behavioral development, prospective longitudinal investigations of neuropsychological measures in relation to later behavioral outcomes in childhood are few. A 2-year longitudinal study in a nonselected childhood sample is reported. The study tested the influence of ...

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A discussion is provided of issues related to neuropsychological assessment of mentally retarded individuals. The first matters considered are test selection in relation to mental age and diagnostic issues. Various methods of evaluation are then considered, including assessment of orientation to sound and visual stimuli, language ...

As part of a comprehensive league-wide study of concussion, the National Football League's Committee on Mild Traumatic Brain Injury sponsored a neuropsychological testing program from 1996 through 2001. Nearly 1,000 athletes participated voluntarily in the study. Traditional paper-and-pencil neuropsychological tests were used for baseline ...

In order to study neuropsychological characteristics of subcortical-frontal brain regions function and assessment of their relation with vulnerability to schizophrenia 59 patients and 23 controls were investigated using Luria's neuropsychological methods. The analysis established bilateral abnormalities of the function of prefrontal ...

, ranging from closed head injuries to Alzheimer's disease, as well as to document cognitive changes of the cost of assessment, if policy provisions such as pre-authorization are met. For more information

Hypobaric decompression sickness (DCS) research presents the medical monitor with the difficult task

... with set-shifting in this sample of PD subjects (see Table 3, Trails B data), the majority of neuropsychological tests assessing psychomotor speed in ...

... contexts, including those in- volving sports-related concussion and exposure to ... computerized, self-guided test platform with multiple alternate forms ...

Neuropsychological and behavioral measures are used to assess attention, but little convergence has been found between these two assessment methods. However, many prior studies have not considered attention as a multicomponent system, which may contribute to this lack of agreement between neuropsychological and ...

The role of school psychologists with training in neuropsychology is examined within the context of multitiered models of service delivery and educational reform policies. An expanded role is suggested that builds on expertise in the assessment of neurodevelopmental disorders and extends to broader tiers through consultation practice. Changes in federal ...

The Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status (RBANS; Randolph, 1998) is a popular neuropsychological assessment instrument with research supporting its clinical utility. However, the index structure of the RBANS was derived theoretically and was not based on factor analysis. The purpose of ...

Abstract Few studies have examined the use of a short cognitive screening of ALS patients in order to establish which patients should undergo a more comprehensive neuropsychological assessment. We tested 20 patients with early ALS with four cognitive screening instruments and subsequently with an extensive neuropsychological ...

Background:Little data exist on the neuropsychological effects of crack�cocaine dependence or crack-cocaine and alcohol dependence. This study examined cognitive function in abstinent crack dependent and crack and alcohol dependent individuals at 6 weeks and 6 months abstinence.Methods:a comprehensive neuropsychological battery, including the MicroCog ...

This article integrates the fundamental components of both "Response to Intervention" (RTI) and cognitive neuropsychology when identifying reading disorders in children. Both proponents of RTI and cognitive neuropsychology agree the "discrepancy model" is not a reliable or valid method to identify learning disorders in school. In addition, both proponents ...

Comparable cognitive disturbances associated with brain pathology have similar manifestations across members of the human species. However, cognitive abilities measured by neuropsychological tests represent, at least in their contents, culturally learned abilities. Performance is under the influence of a vast array of moderating variables, including: culture, ecological ...

This study examined the degree to which demographic variables, psychiatric diagnosis, depression rating, and neuropsychological test performance predict adaptive kitchen behavior in geriatric psychiatry patients and normal elderly volunteers. Amixed group of 27 participants including 8 normal volunteers and 19 geriatric psychiatry inpatients underwent psychiatric evaluation, ...

OBJECTIVES: A prospective assessment of neuropsychological impairment in the early postoperative stage after coronary bypass surgery. METHODS: Seventy patients undergoing elective coronary bypass surgery (CABG) were investigated preoperatively, two to three and five to nine days postoperatively with a comprehensive neuropsychological ...

Assessment of preschool-aged children constitutes a dilemma for many neuropsychologists because of a limited set of standardized measures with normative data as well as inadequate understanding of typical developmental trajectories for neuropsychological functions during the first years of life. However, numerous neurological disorders, medical disorders ...

Neuropsychological deficits are common in various cerebrovascular, neurodegenerative and traumatic pathologies. Neuropsychological rehabilitation refers to a set of interventions that aim to improve a person's ability to perform cognitive tasks by retraining previously learned skills and teaching compensatory strategies. However, today there are some ...

... Title : NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS IN ATHEROSCLEROSIS: PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS AND PERSPECTIVES. ...

The present study is an exploration of the personality assessment practices of clinical neuropsychologists. Professional members of the National Academy of Neuropsychology and the International Neuropsychological Society (N = 404) were surveyed to examine use of several forms of personality, behavior, and emotional function measures. ...

This paper presents the first phase of a wider research programme examining neuropsychological assessment as it applies to individuals with physical and sensory disabilities to such a degree as to make them "hard-to-assess" (HTA). The aim of this paper was to investigate the extent to which physical and sensory disabilities interfered ...

Cognitive deficits, substance abuse, and mental illness are common among prisoners. Thus, for many prisoners, neuropsychological evaluations may be indicated to assess the degree of impairment and how these impairments may affect their behavior in the prison environment. However, many neuropsychological tests were not designed for or ...

Social risk factors, executive neuropsychological functioning, and emotional numbing were examined as potential risk factors for violent sexual assaults by an adolescent male. The subject had been exposed to at least four previously identified social risk factors, including neglect, early separation from both parents, sexual abuse, and low socioeconomic status. At the time of ...

The aim of this study was to assess the effects of chronic iron deficiency on neuropsychological traits in infants. We established the nutritional iron status and assessed the neuropsychological characteristics of 58 Mexican 14- to 18-month-old infants. The Bayley Scales of Infant Development, preschool language ...

As part of the clinical trials investigating new treatments or natural history studies exploring the effects of diseases, such as cancer and neurofibromatosis type 1, we conduct comprehensive assessments of children, adolescents, and adults to identify strengths and weaknesses in neuropsychological functioning and to monitor changes in these areas over ...

Objectives To describe levels of traumatic childhood events in a sample of homeless individuals and to assess the contribution of traumatic events to neurobehavioural traits (measured with the Frontal Systems Behaviour Scale, FrSBe) and general cognitive function (IQ). Design A sample of 55 homeless adults was recruited from homeless services in the city of Sheffield, UK. All ...

INTRODUCTION: A new instrument of neuropsychological assessment, the Luria Neuropsychological Diagnostic Battery, has recently become available in Spain. This battery is based on a revision of the Luria Neuropsychological Diagnostic (Christensen, 1975) and has been standardized by Manga and Ramos (1991) to be used ...

Few studies have assessed whether the patterns of neuropsychological impairment in patients with different frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) subtypes remain distinct over the duration of their illness or devolve into a common, undifferentiated neuropsychological state. A longitudinal neuropsychological ...

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Psychological and neuropsychological assessment remains an important aspect of clinical evaluation in adolescents with psychiatric and neurologic disorders. The primary care practitioner can refer for psychological and neuropsychological assessment when cognitive, behavioral, or psychiatric problems appear to be ...

We studied 14 chronic toluene abusers with a comprehensive neuropsychological evaluation and cerebral magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). There were 10 men and 4 women, and the mean age was 29 years. Using a blinded global assessment of neuropsychological functioning, we found 3 patients to be normal, 3 in a borderline range, and 8 ...

The results of investigations on the cognitive outcomes of adolescents exposed prenatally to radiation from Chernobyl are inconsistent. In 2005 through 2006, we assessed individuals exposed prenatally (N = 84) and controls (N = 94) using a broad neuropsychological test battery. Neuropsychological performance was significantly weaker in ...

Cognitive Behavioral Social Skills Training (CBSST) is a 24-session weekly group therapy intervention to improve functioning in people with schizophrenia. In our prior randomized clinical trial comparing treatment as usual (TAU) with TAU plus group CBSST (Granholm et al. 2005), participants with schizophrenia in CBSST showed significantly better functional outcome than participants in TAU. The ...

Minimal acceptable global intelligence is often a determinant for entry into studies utilizing children's self-reported health-related quality of life (HRQL) or symptoms' appraisal. However, most measures of cognitive functioning are lengthy and require a trained psychologist for administration. We used the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (third edition; PPVT-III) to assess ...

This study examined the relationship between the developmental trajectories of neuropsychological functioning and ADHD symptomatology in a longitudinal sample of children ages 9 to 14. Participants and measures were derived from the Multimodal Treatment Study for ADHD including 534MTA participants and 254 normal controls. Despite improvement over time, MTA participants ...

In order to develop normative data of a battery of neuropsychological tests in the mainland Chinese population, we examined the performance of 15 neuropsychological tests in 465 healthy subjects (231 males and 234 females) in a population-based cohort study. The years of education were ranged between 1 and 23 years, and ages were ranged between 16 and 75 ...

In order to develop normative data of a battery of neuropsychological tests in the mainland Chinese population, we examined the performance of 15 neuropsychological tests in 465 healthy subjects (231 males and 234 females) in a population-based cohort study. The years of education were ranged between 1 and 23 years, and ages were ranged between 16 and 75 ...

This study examined the relationship between actual and self-reported neuropsychological deficits, depression, and HIV-1 serostatus. The subjects, who consisted of 479 individuals, 256 who were HIV seronegative (SN) and 233 who were HIV-1 seropositive though still asymptomatic (ASP), were administered a standardized neuropsychological screening battery ...

We compared verbally matched attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), Williams syndrome (WS), and typically developing individuals (N = 19 each group) on behavioral symptoms (Conners ADHD rating scale) and neuropsychological functioning. Neuropsychological tasks included those that assessed short-term memory and executive ...

Most of the time, the effect of neuropsychological and clinical-psychological interventions for older people with cognitive deficits compared with the medical treatment is underestimated. Most times the effect of neuropsychological and clinical-psychological interventions in old aged people with cognitive deficits is seen lower than those of medical ...

Westwood and Goodale (this issue) review the evidence for distinct visual streams for action and perception. They argue that, on balance, both the neuropsychological and psychophysical data support this distinction. They claim that critical results were either statistically inconclusive (because they consisted of negative evidence) or based on a suspect "calibration" ...

Conducted this study to cross-validate the Verbal Concept Attainment Test as a measure of potential value in neuropsychological assessment and to validate a booklet form of this test. Two samples of 75 patients referred for neuropsychological examination were studied. In both samples the pattern of relationship between the VCAT and a ...

Nowhere is it more important to maintain peek mental functioning than in a combat zone. Conditions ranging from pain to head injury to post-traumatic stress disorder can cause impairments in neuropsychological function and place service members at risk. Medications can sometimes help alleviate these problems, but also have the risk of further slowing cognitive function or ...

The present study is part of a larger project that seeks to identify factors that predict children�s behavioral, social, and cognitive adaptation to epilepsy. Children with seizures are more likely to have internalizing and externalizing behavior problems than either healthy children or children with other chronic illnesses. The present research examines risk factors for behavior problems. Early ...

The goal of this study was to characterize the changes in cognition associated with the earliest, or preclinical, stages of dementia in Parkinson's disease (PD). We administered a comprehensive neuropsychological test battery to a group of initially nondemented PD patients participating in a longitudinal community-based epidemiologic study. We used Cox proportional hazards ...

Background/AimsHallucinations have been linked to a constellation of cognitive deficits in Parkinson's disease (PD), but it is not known whether multi-modal hallucinations are associated with greater neuropsychological dysfunction.Methods152 idiopathic PD patients were categorized based on the presence or absence of hallucinations and then were further subdivided into ...

This study examined the predictive validity of widely utilized neuropsychological tests, the Cognitive Behavioral Driving Inventory (CBDI) and the Useful Field of View (UFOV), to predict driving abilities in a community-dwelling older adult population. Thirty-nine older adults were given the test battery and an on-the-road driving test. Results indicated that while performance ...

Word reading and math computation scores were predicted from Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence Full Scale IQ, 10 neuropsychological tests, and parent attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) ratings in 214 general population elementary school children. IQ was the best single predictor of achievement. In addition, Digit Span contributed ...

educational and medical history. 4. Describes the comprehensive assessments (neuropsychological) An aptitude assessment using a complete, valid, and comprehensive battery, b) A complete achievement battery out. � For ADD/ADHD, must include a) Evidence of early impairment, b) Evidence of current impairment

In an effort to assess the effects of exposure to ionizing radiation on neuropsychological and physical abilities, a longitudinal study in and near Chernobyl, Ukraine was conducted. In this report are findings from 1995 to 1998. Participants were voluntee...

Hypobaric decompression sickness (DCS) research presents the medical monitor with the difficult task of assessing the onset and progression of DCS largely on the basis of subjective symptoms. Even with the introduction of precordial Doppler ultrasound tec...

This paper introduces the major research and clinical neuropsychological practice associated with the assessment of intellectual functioning following missile wounds to the brain. The incidence of such injuries, the major research studies over the past 50...

The Luria Nebraska Neuropsychological Battery identifies cognitive deficits and localizes specific brain impairment in individuals age 15 or older. The instrument uses visual stimulus cards and an audiotape to assess performance in such areas as tactile functions, speech, arithmetic, and memory. This paper examines test administration, summation of data, ...

The natural history of both cognitive functioning and T2- hyperintensities is being examined in a longitudinal study of a cohort of 32 patients with NF1 and 11 controls. Follow-up neuropsychological assessments and cranial MRIs were performed after an 8-y...

The Mental Health and Behavioral Sciences Service Conference was held to present recent advances in clinical neuropsychology. Brain injury and the subsequent treatment and rehabilitation stages are assessed. Reports include a discussion of acute brain inj...

A study of 62 children (ages 7 to 12) with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and 62 controls found that behavioral variables established robust, statistically significant differences between groups. Children with ADHD also scored worse on 31 out of 61 neuropsychological variables, but obtained better scores on WISC-R Comprehension and Picture completion. ...

This report reviews critical issues facing investigators interested in neuropsychologic sequelae after cardiac operations: (1) experimental design; (2) selective attrition; (3) selection of instruments; (4) moderating factors; (5) definitions of cognitive decline; (6) statistical analysis; and (7) clinical significance. Implications for further research in the area are ...

We previously reported better psychomotor development at 30 months of age in infants whose mothers received a docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) supplement for the first 4 months of lactation. We now assess neuropsychological and visual function of the same children at 5 years of age. Breastfeeding women w...

Loss of mental abilities represents a recognized threat to the quality of life of postmenopausal women with advancing age. Most recently, several reports have used a sensitive method (neuropsychological testing) to evaluate younger women with breast cance...

Loss of mental abilities represents a recognized threat to the quality of life of postmenopausal women with advancing age. Most recently, several reports have used a sensitive method (neuropsychological testing) to evaluate younger women with breast cance...

Traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) have the potential to significantly disrupt a student's cognitive, academic, social, emotional, behavioral, and physical functioning. It is important for educators to appreciate the array of difficulties students with TBI may experience in order to appropriately assess needs and create an educational plan that targets the needs. The purpose of ...