... of dementia has critical therapeutic and public health implications. "Typically, when neuropsychological tests are used for diagnostic purposes, an individual's level of performance on specific tests ...
... apart accurately, stresses the study in July's Neuropsychology. Valid diagnoses can help doctors treat ... place, Mathias explained.
Although the two tests that worked best would most reliably contribute ...
... prevalence of alexithymia, greater difficulty in emotional stimuli processing and poorer performance on neuropsychological tests exploring the activity of fronto-temporo-limbic circuits.
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... the recollection of words, names, word pairs, paragraphs and stories -- using standard neuropsychological tests.
"When we looked at the relationship between the hot flashes that the women truly had ...
... meal consisted of only water consumption; and the third test meal was the high-fat meal plus ... meal ingestion, participants completed a series of neuropsychological tests lasting 90 minutes that measured ...
... (61 percent female, 39 percent male) ranging in age from 8 to 24 years old, who were given neuropsychological tests that measured attention, memory, processing speed and reaction ...
... rating scales as well as various quantitative measures of behavior and general functioning, neuropsychological testing and scanning of both regional brain blood flow and glucose metabolism using ...
... scored the same on memory tests, however, implying that PET scans may be more sensitive than neuropsychological tests in detecting drugs' effects.
The research suggests that the treatment of early ...
... severity rating scales, it would be advisable to include measures addressing functionality such as neuropsychological tests of attention, memory and executive function, and quality of life.
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M. D. Anderson researchers measured participants' neurocognitive function using a short battery of neuropsychological tests, with the primary endpoint being memory function as tested by the Hopkins ...
... and spent at least 15 days over altitudes of 6,500 metres.
A number of neuropsychological tests were also carried out to assess the climber's cognitive abilities, such as memory and motor functions ...
... disease patients' cognitive performance before and after kidney transplantation. They did so by using neuropsychological tests related to language, learning and memory, attention, and other brain ...
... by Emory University, has developed a rapid screening test to detect mild cognitive impairment (MCI) ... requires 40-60 minutes or more of formal neuropsychological testing to achieve 80 percent accuracy ...
... and 50 were randomly assigned to take either MK-0777 or a placebo for four weeks. They underwent neuropsychological tests at baseline, two weeks and four weeks after starting the drug, as well as an ...
... by therapeutic CPAP for an additional three weeks. Both groups received a complete battery of neuropsychological tests before treatment, at three and at six weeks.
A comparison of the randomized ...