Internet navigation skills for financial management: Associations with age, neurocognitive performance, and functional capacity.
Conclusions: Findings suggest that older adults experience difficultly quickly and accurately navigating online banking platforms, which may be partly related to age-related declines in neurocognitive functions and basic financial capacity. Future studies might examine whether neurocognitive approaches to remediation and compensation can be used to improve online banking capacity in older adults. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Neuropsychology)
Source: Neuropsychology - July 22, 2021 Category: Neurology Source Type: research
Association between decision-making under risk conditions and on-road driving safety among older drivers.
Conclusion: Overall, this study offers the first evidence that decision-making is related to older adults’ on-road driving safety, and makes recommendations for future research exploring the contribution of decision-making to on-road safety. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Neuropsychology)
Source: Neuropsychology - July 22, 2021 Category: Neurology Source Type: research
State regulation in adults scoring high versus low on ADHD symptomatology: A pupillometry study.
Conclusion: The high-ADHD group showed state regulation difficulties despite similar levels of additional effort allocation as reflected by phasic pupil responses. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Neuropsychology)
Source: Neuropsychology - July 22, 2021 Category: Neurology Source Type: research
Adaptation and validation of a computerized neurocognitive battery in the Xhosa of South Africa.
Conclusions: Results support the feasibility of implementing a culturally adapted computerized neurocognitive battery in sub-Saharan African settings and provide evidence supporting the concurrent validity of the translated instrument. Thus, the PennCNB is implementable on a large scale in non-Western contexts, shows expected factor structure, and can detect cognitive deficits associated with neuropsychiatric disorders. Obtaining valid measures of cognition by nonspecialized proctors is especially suitable in resource-limited settings, where traditional testing is prohibitive. Future work should establish normative standar...
Source: Neuropsychology - July 5, 2021 Category: Neurology Source Type: research
Fatigue following pediatric acquired brain injury: Interplay with associated factors in a clinical trial population compared to healthy controls.
Objective: The aims of the present study were to compare fatigue levels in children with pediatric acquired brain injury (pABI) with healthy controls (HCs), and examine the interplay of fatigue with associated factors. Method: We used baseline data from a preregistered randomized controlled trial. Seventy-six children aged 10–17 (median 13 years) with pABI in the chronic phase (88% with confirmatory cerebral imaging findings) and executive function (EF) complaints were included, most with moderate disability according to The Glasgow Outcome Scale Extended (GOSE-E) categorization. HCs consisted of 60 children aged 10–17...
Source: Neuropsychology - July 1, 2021 Category: Neurology Source Type: research
Semantic interference mechanisms on long-term visual memory and their eye-movement signatures in mild cognitive impairment.
Conclusions: Effects of SI on long-term memory were reduced in MCI participants. They used different oculomotor strategies compared to healthy adults to compensate for its detrimental effects. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Neuropsychology)
Source: Neuropsychology - June 24, 2021 Category: Neurology Source Type: research
Measures of attention in Rett syndrome: Internal consistency reliability.
Conclusion: Finding that critical aspects of attention can be reliably assessed in RTT with gaze-based tasks constitutes a major advance in the development of cognitive measures appropriate for clinical and translational work. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Neuropsychology)
Source: Neuropsychology - June 7, 2021 Category: Neurology Source Type: research
Cognitive phenotypes in Parkinson’s disease: A latent profile analysis.
Conclusions: We presented a qualitative description of three distinct cognitive phenotypes emerging from a sample of 65 PD patients. The three clusters seem to be related to daily functioning but are independent from the stage of disease, motor functioning, anxiety, and depression. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Neuropsychology)
Source: Neuropsychology - May 27, 2021 Category: Neurology Source Type: research
Factor analyses of the ADNI neuropsychological battery: An examination of diagnostic and longitudinal invariance.
Conclusions: The ADNI battery assesses the same cognitive abilities in the three diagnostic groups, but test scores do not calibrate to these abilities equally in the respective groups, making certain statistics (e.g., factor scores) noncomparable between groups. Within each group, the latent structure and the numerical relations between individual tests and underlying factors remained invariant over 2 years, suggesting that this battery is a reliable tool for tracking longitudinal changes in specific cognitive abilities within individual diagnostic groups. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Neuropsychology)
Source: Neuropsychology - May 27, 2021 Category: Neurology Source Type: research
Testing measurement equivalence of neurocognitive assessments across language in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos.
Conclusions: We found some evidence of bias at both item and factor levels, contributing to the poorer neurocognitive performance of Spanish test-takers. While these results explain the underperformance of Spanish-speakers to some extent, more work is needed to determine whether such bias is reflective of true cognitive differences or additional variables unaccounted for in this study. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Neuropsychology)
Source: Neuropsychology - May 27, 2021 Category: Neurology Source Type: research
The impact of sociocultural factors on prospective memory performance in HIV+ Latinx adults.
Objective: Prospective memory (PM), a salient component of neurocognitive functioning for people living with HIV (PLH), is necessary for planning and coordinating health-related behaviors and instrumental tasks of daily living. However, little is known regarding the impact of sociocultural factors on PM in diverse populations, particularly Latinx PLH. The aim of this study was to examine ethnic group differences and sociocultural factors related to PM. Method: The sample of 127 PLH (91 Latinx and 36 non-Latinx white) completed measures of quality of education, socioeconomic status (SES), and a validated PM measure, the Mem...
Source: Neuropsychology - May 27, 2021 Category: Neurology Source Type: research
Stronger impulse capture and impaired inhibition of prepotent action in children with ADHD performing a Simon task: An electromyographic study.
Conclusions: Our data suggest that the difficulties in interference control found in children with ADHD are explained by both impaired inhibitory processes and a greater propensity to activate automatic responses. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Neuropsychology)
Source: Neuropsychology - May 27, 2021 Category: Neurology Source Type: research
Examining cognitive speed and accuracy dysfunction in youth and young adults with pediatric-onset multiple sclerosis using a computerized neurocognitive battery.
Objective: We evaluated performance on the Penn Computerized Neurocognitive Battery (PCNB), a tool assessing accuracy and response time across four cognitive domains, alongside the Symbol Digit Modalities Test (SDMT), a measure of processing speed commonly used in MS. We determined whether performance decrements are more likely to be detected on measures of accuracy versus response time in pediatric-onset multiple sclerosis (POMS). Methods: Performance on the SDMT, accuracy on PCNB tests belonging to four domains (executive function, episodic memory, complex cognition, social cognition), and response time on the PCNB were ...
Source: Neuropsychology - May 27, 2021 Category: Neurology Source Type: research
Neurocognitive abilities associated with antisocial behavior with and without callous-unemotional traits in a community sample.
Conclusion: Elevated antisocial behavior and CU traits may be characterized by a distinct neurocognitive profile compared to elevated antisocial behavior in isolation. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Neuropsychology)
Source: Neuropsychology - May 27, 2021 Category: Neurology Source Type: research
The role of education in executive functions, behavioral problems and functional performance in people with schizophrenia.
Conclusions: Higher education may ameliorate executive deficits in patients with chronic schizophrenia and, in turn, diminish the behavioral and functional problems of the illness. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Neuropsychology)
Source: Neuropsychology - May 27, 2021 Category: Neurology Source Type: research
