The complementary utility of cognitive testing and the medication management ability assessment in older adults.
Conclusions: EF uniquely predicted medication management status beyond other cognitive domains. The MMAA provided complementary predictive utility. Concurrent interpretation of executive functioning and MMAA performance is advised when assessing older adults suspected of medication mismanagement. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Neuropsychology)
Source: Neuropsychology - May 19, 2022 Category: Neurology Source Type: research
Challenges and opportunities for harmonization of cross-cultural neuropsychological data.
Conclusion: In the future, it will be important to further solidify principles for aggregating data across diverse cultural and linguistic cohorts, validate whether assumptions are being satisfied regarding the relationship between neuropsychological measures and the brain and/or behavior of individuals from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, as well as methods for evaluating relative successful validation for data harmonization efforts. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Neuropsychology)
Source: Neuropsychology - May 12, 2022 Category: Neurology Source Type: research
How well do online, self-administered measures correspond to in-lab assessments? A preliminary examination of three measures in healthy older adults.
Conclusion: Our results identify several pitfalls when adapting tests for online testing, but the relatively strong correspondence for some measures suggests a promising outlook for the validity of online testing once these are resolved. We make suggestions for how the identified pitfalls might be addressed in future studies attempting to adapt performance measures for online testing. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Neuropsychology)
Source: Neuropsychology - May 5, 2022 Category: Neurology Source Type: research
Facial emotion recognition in Parkinson’s disease: The role of executive and affective domains.
Conclusions: Our findings demonstrate the presence of emotion recognition deficits of morphed facial expressions in patients with PD. Moreover, they suggest that inhibition dysfunctions may act as an important factor negatively influencing FER. The present study highlights the complex nature of emotion processing and its relation with emotional-affective and cognitive aspects to provide a better understanding of FER deficits in PD. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Neuropsychology)
Source: Neuropsychology - May 5, 2022 Category: Neurology Source Type: research
Using the Montreal cognitive assessment to identify individuals with subtle cognitive decline.
Conclusions: We identified three clusters of individuals classified as cognitively unimpaired using cluster analysis. Individuals in the compound deficits cluster performed lower on the MoCA and were older and less often married than individuals in other clusters. Demographic analyses suggest that cluster identity was due to a combination of both cognitive and clinical factors. Identifying individuals at risk for future cognitive decline using the MoCA could help them receive earlier evidence-based interventions to slow further cognitive decline. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Neuropsychology)
Source: Neuropsychology - May 5, 2022 Category: Neurology Source Type: research
A cultural neuropsychological approach to harmonization of cognitive data across culturally and linguistically diverse older adult populations.
Conclusions: Prestatistical harmonization of cognitive data, performed by a multidisciplinary and multilingual team including cultural neuropsychologists, can identify differences in cognitive construct measurement across languages and cultures that may not be identified by statistical procedures alone. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Neuropsychology)
Source: Neuropsychology - April 28, 2022 Category: Neurology Source Type: research
Construct validity of the NIH toolbox cognitive domains: A comparison with conventional neuropsychological assessments.
Conclusion: The NIHTB-CB cognitive domains have poor-to-good construct validity, thus researchers should be aware that some tests representing cognitive constructs may not fully reflect the cognitive domain of interest. Future investigation of the construct validity and reliability of the NIHTB-CB administered using the iPad is recommended. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Neuropsychology)
Source: Neuropsychology - April 28, 2022 Category: Neurology Source Type: research
The relationship between sustained attention and automatic versus procedural arithmetic: The case of populations with typical development and subgroups of developmental dyscalculia.
Conclusion: These findings not only suggest that sustained attention plays a different role in automatic and procedural arithmetic but also support the notion that pure DD might not achieve automaticity in arithmetic and therefore do not rely on the sustained attention system even under simple automatic situations in arithmetic. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Neuropsychology)
Source: Neuropsychology - April 25, 2022 Category: Neurology Source Type: research
Impact of word properties on list learning: An explanatory item analysis.
Conclusions: Results demonstrate that list learning performance depends on factors beyond the repetition of words. Identification of item factors that predict learning could extend to a range of test development problems including translation, form equating, item revision, and item bias. In data harmonization efforts, these methods can also be used to help link tests via shared item features and testing of whether these features are equally explanatory across samples. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Neuropsychology)
Source: Neuropsychology - April 21, 2022 Category: Neurology Source Type: research
Visuospatial working memory in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: Characterizing path length and path crossings as mechanisms of impairment.
Conclusions: Overall, findings appear to suggest that school-aged children engage in dynamic rehearsal of VS information (i.e., mental rehearsal of path sequences), rather than static rehearsal (i.e., rehearsal of a gestalt). Moreover, ADHD-related VS-WM deficits are most likely to yield real-world impairments when information is presented with relatively long path lengths. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Neuropsychology)
Source: Neuropsychology - April 21, 2022 Category: Neurology Source Type: research
Academic skills after brain injury: A lifespan perspective.
This study investigated academic skills outcomes after brain injury and identified the influence of age and injury factors across the lifespan. Method: Our sample included 651 participants with focal brain lesions. Math, reading, and spelling data from the Wide Range Achievement Test (WRAT) were used as the academic skills outcomes. Age of lesion onset ranged from 0 to 85 years old. Linear regressions were conducted to identify the relation between age and injury factors and academic skills outcomes. Lesion-symptom mapping was conducted to identify the brain areas that, when lesioned, were associated with deficits in acade...
Source: Neuropsychology - April 14, 2022 Category: Neurology Source Type: research
Neuropsychological, neuropsychiatric, and clinical correlates of affective and cognitive theory of mind in Parkinson’s disease: A meta-analysis.
Conclusions: These findings clarify the neuropsychological and clinical features that explain ToM deficits in PD. Possibly, our results suggest the need to explore the complex neural networks involving frontostriatal and temporoparietal circuits behind changes in social cognition in PD. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Neuropsychology)
Source: Neuropsychology - April 7, 2022 Category: Neurology Source Type: research
Are working memory models WEIRD? Testing models of working memory in a non-WEIRD sample.
Conclusions: Neuropsychological tests and rehabilitation approaches are based on leading models of working memory, and so their cross-cultural appropriateness is important. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Neuropsychology)
Source: Neuropsychology - April 7, 2022 Category: Neurology Source Type: research
Emotion lateralization in a graduated emotional chimeric face task: An online study.
Conclusions: The results provide further support for the RH hypothesis and suggest that the RH dominance in emotional face perception may be affected by task difficulty and visual perception strategy. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Neuropsychology)
Source: Neuropsychology - April 7, 2022 Category: Neurology Source Type: research
Cogniphobia and neuropsychological functioning in migraine.
The objective of the present study was to demonstrate associations between cogniphobia and key fear–avoidance constructs. Method: In this cross-sectional study, 72 adults with migraine were recruited from a tertiary headache center. Patients completed the Cogniphobia Scale for Headache Disorders (CS-HD) and a series of self-reported surveys and neuropsychological measures that assessed patient demographics, migraine diagnosis and headache characteristics, current pain severity, emotional state (i.e., anxiety, pain-related fear, and depression), cognitive exertion, and functioning (self-reported disability, self-reported ...
Source: Neuropsychology - April 7, 2022 Category: Neurology Source Type: research
