Genetic Risk Score Predicts Late-Life Cognitive Impairment by Mariegold E. Wollam, Andrea M. Weinstein, Judith A. Saxton, Lisa Morrow, Beth Snitz, Nicole R. Fowler, Barbara L. Suever Erickson, Kathryn A. Roecklein, Kirk I. Erickson

“…In a sample of 95 older adults (Mean age = 75.1, 64.2% female), we constructed a genetic risk score based on the accumulation of risk alleles in BDNF, COMT, and APOE. A neuropsychological evaluation and consensus determined cognitive status (44 nonimpaired, 51 impaired). …”
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Impaired GABA Neural Circuits Are Critical for Fragile X Syndrome by Fei Gao, Lijun Qi, Zhongzhen Yang, Tao Yang, Yan Zhang, Hui Xu, Huan Zhao

“…Fragile X syndrome (FXS) is an inheritable neuropsychological disease caused by silence of the fmr1 gene and the deficiency of Fragile X mental retardation protein (FMRP). …”
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Alexithymia and Apathy in Parkinson’s Disease: Neurocognitive Correlates by Yelena Bogdanova, Alice Cronin-Golomb

“…Twenty-two non-demented PD patients and 22 matched normal control adults (NC) were administered rating scales assessing neuropsychiatric status, including alexithymia, apathy, and depression, and a series of neuropsychological tests. As expected, PD patients showed more alexithymia than NC, and there was a significant association between alexithymia and disease stage. …”
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The Prevalence of Fatigue Following Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery in Parkinson's Disease and Association with Quality of Life by Benzi M. Kluger, Veronica Parra, Charles Jacobson, Cynthia W. Garvan, Ramon L. Rodriguez, Hubert H. Fernandez, Amanda Fogel, Barry M. Skoblar, Dawn Bowers, Michael S. Okun

“…At least one year following DBS placement, we administered the Fatigue Severity Scale (FSS), the Parkinson’s Disease Questionnaire (PDQ-39), the Beck Depression Inventory, the Beck Anxiety Inventory, the UPDRS, and a neuropsychological battery. Fifty-eight percent of subjects had moderate to severe fatigue. …”
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Effect of home environment on neuropsychiatric development in preterm infants discharged from NICU at 18 months corrected age by Yuan Tian, Chuncao Zhang, Li Shen, Haifeng Jiang, Feng Liu, Jinjin Chen, Xia Hong

“…The aspects and extent to which the home environment affects the early (18 months corrected age) neuropsychological development of preterm infants are still unclear.Aims This study aimed to analyse the effect of the home environment on the neuropsychiatric development of preterm infants at 18 months corrected age after discharge from the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). …”
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Degenerative Jargon Aphasia: Unusual Progression of Logopenic/Phonological Progressive Aphasia? by Paolo Caffarra, Simona Gardini, Stefano Cappa, Francesca Dieci, Letizia Concari, Federica Barocco, Caterina Ghetti, Livia Ruffini, Guido Dalla Rosa Prati

“…At recent follow-up the patient developed an unintelligible jargon with both semantic and neologistic errors, as well as with severe deficit of comprehension which precluded any further neuropsychological assessment. Compared to healthy controls, FDG-PET showed a hypometabolism in the left angular and middle temporal gyri, precuneus, caudate, posterior cingulate, middle frontal gyrus, and bilaterally in the superior temporal and inferior frontal gyri. …”
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Left-Deviating Prism Adaptation in Left Neglect Patient: Reflexions on a Negative Result by Jacques Luauté, Sophie Jacquin-Courtois, Jacinta O'Shea, Laure Christophe, Gilles Rode, Dominique Boisson, Yves Rossetti

“…In order to test the lateral specificity of prism adaptation on left neglect, the present study evaluated the effect of left-deviating prism on straight-ahead pointing movements and on several classical neuropsychological tests in a group of five right brain-damaged patients with left spatial neglect. …”
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Cognitive Impairment Involving Social Cognition in SPG4 Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia by Ludivine Chamard, Sabrina Ferreira, Alexa Pijoff, Manon Silvestre, Eric Berger, Eloi Magnin

“…We reported a series of nine patients with SPG4 mutation with an extensive neuropsychological examination including social cognition assessment. …”
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Late Recovery from Severe Streptococcus pneumoniae Comatose Meningitis with Concomitant Diffuse Subcortical Cytotoxic Edema and Cortical Hypometabolism by Philippe Hantson, Thierry Duprez

“…The patient unexpectedly experienced a complete neuropsychological recovery the next few weeks. The suggested hypothesis to explain this unusual disease course could be a transient alteration of CBF autoregulation due to some degree of diffuse subcortical microangiopathy. …”
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Cognition and Vascular Risk Factors: An Epidemiological Study by Augusto Vicario, Mildren Del Sueldo, Ruth A. Fernández, Julio Enders, Judith Zilberman, Gustavo H. Cerezo

“…Thus, we demonstrated that the use of a Minimum Cognitive Examination (MCE), a brief, simple, and easy managed neuropsychological evaluation, detected a greater number of people with cognitive decline surpassing to the Minimal Mental Statement Examination alone (14.5% of the participants showed MMSE ≤24, 34,6% showed dys-executive function, and 45,8% memory impairment. …”
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Clinical Correlates of Awareness for Balance, Function, and Memory: Evidence for the Modality Specificity of Awareness by Megan E. O'Connell, Vanina Dal Bello-Haas, Margaret Crossley, Debra Morgan

“…Clinical correlates of awareness of memory depended on diagnostic group: associations held with neuropsychological variables for non-AD dementia, but for patients with AD dementia, depression and instrumental activities of daily living were clinical correlates of memory awareness. …”
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Toward an Executive Origin for Acquired Phonological Dyslexia: A Case of Specific Deficit of Context-Sensitive Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion Rules by Noémie Auclair-Ouellet, Marion Fossard, Marie-Catherine St-Pierre, Joël Macoir

“…FG also underwent an extensive neuropsychological assessment battery in which he showed impaired performance in tests exploring verbal working memory and executive functions. …”
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Lateralized Cerebellar Contributions to Word Generation: A Phonemic and Semantic Fluency Study by Tom A. Schweizer, Michael P. Alexander, B. A. Susan Gillingham, Michael Cusimano, Donald T. Stuss

“…Impairment on verbal fluency tasks has been one of the more consistently reported neuropsychological findings after cerebellar lesions, but it has not been uniformly observed and the possible underlying cognitive basis has not been investigated. …”
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Psychological interventions to create child-friendly school in senior high schools levels in Indonesia by Suratno Suratno, Wantini Wantini, Suyatno Suyatno

“…Besides there are four models of intervention approaches, namely psychoeducational model intervention; b) intervention with a behavioral model; c) intervention with a neuropsychological model; and d) intervention with the cognitive model.…”
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Qualitative Evaluation of Divergent Thinking in Patients with Schizophrenia by Takahiro Nemoto, Masafumi Mizuno, Haruo Kashima

“…Verbal fluency tests are neuropsychological tests that assess frontal lobe function or executive function but also assess divergent thinking. …”
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Western Medical Rehabilitation through Time: A Historical and Epistemological Review by Andrea A. Conti

“…When modern rehabilitation emerges, around the middle of the twentieth century, it derives from a combination of management approaches focusing on the orthopaedic and biomechanical understanding of patterns of movement, on the mastering of neuropsychological mechanisms, and on the awareness of the social-occupational dimension of everyday reality.…”
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Cognitive Impairment in Opium Use Disorder by Hossein Sanjari Moghaddam, Behrang Shadloo, Helen Shahkhah, Abbas Tafakhori, Maryam Haghshomar, Shakila Meshkat, Vajiheh Aghamollaii

“…Thirty outpatients with OUD and 20 healthy controls (HCs) were assessed using a neuropsychological battery consisted of Auditory Verbal Learning Test-Revised (AVLT-R), Brief Visuospatial Memory Test-Revised (BVMT-R), Digit Forward and Backward Tests (DFT and DBT), and WAIS-R Digit Symbol Substitution Test (DSST). …”
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Cognitive Function in Parkinson’s Disease Patients with and without Anxiety by K. A. Ehgoetz Martens, J. Y. Y. Szeto, A. J. Muller, J. M. Hall, M. Gilat, C. C. Walton, S. J. G. Lewis

“…This study compared cognitive performance across 50 PD participants with and without anxiety (17 PDA+; 33 PDA−), who underwent neurological and neuropsychological assessment. Group performance was compared across the following cognitive domains: simple attention/visuomotor processing speed, executive function (e.g., set-shifting), working memory, language, and memory/new verbal learning. …”
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Multidisciplinary Assessment and Diagnosis of Conversion Disorder in a Patient with Foreign Accent Syndrome by Harrison N. Jones, Tyler J. Story, Timothy A. Collins, Daniel DeJoy, Christopher L. Edwards

“…We will present the clinical history, neurological examination, neuropsychological assessment, cognitive-behavioral and biofeedback assessments, and motor speech examination of a patient with FAS without a known vascular, traumatic, or infectious precipitant. …”
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Preclinical Polymodal Hallucinations for 13 Years before Dementia with Lewy Bodies by Carlo Abbate, Pietro Davide Trimarchi, Silvia Inglese, Niccolò Viti, Alessandra Cantatore, Lisa De Agostini, Federico Pirri, Lorenza Marino, Renzo Bagarolo, Daniela Mari

“…The phenomenological study showed the presence of hypnagogic and hypnopompic hallucinations that allowed us to make a differential diagnosis between DLB and Charles Bonnet syndrome (CBS). The neuropsychological evaluation showed a multiple domain without amnesia MCI subtype with prefrontal dysexecutive, visuoperceptual, and visuospatial impairments and simultanagnosia, which has not previously been reported in MCI-DLB. …”
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