Lace, John W Grant, Alex F Ruppert, Phillip Kaufman, David A S Teague, Carson L Lowell, Kimberly Gfeller, Jeffrey D
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The Clinical neuropsychologist
While the Neuropsychological Assessment Battery, Screening Module (S-NAB) is a commonly used cognitive screening measure, no composite embedded performance validity test (PVT) formula has yet been described within it. This study sought to empirically derive PVT formulas within the S-NAB using an analog simulation paradigm. Seventy-two university st...
Tan, Yi Wen Burgess, Gerald H Green, Robin J
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The Clinical neuropsychologist
Objectives: This systematic literature review collated a series of empirical works on the relationship between acculturation and performances on neuropsychological tests commonly used in clinical settings. Acculturation is theorized to influence test performance, but the integration between these two concepts is weak in the theoretical literature. ...
Mills, Ginger N Garbarino, Julianne T Raskin, Sarah A
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The Clinical neuropsychologist
Prospective memory (PM) is defined as the ability to remember to complete an intention in the future. The first aim of this study was to address the need for clinically useful measures of PM in children, by assessing the psychometric properties of a new measure of PM in children and adolescents, the Memory for Intentions Screening Test for Youth (M...
Graves, Lisa V Drozdick, Lisa Courville, Troy Farrer, Thomas J Gilbert, Paul E Delis, Dean C
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The Clinical neuropsychologist
Although cohort effects on IQ measures have been investigated extensively, studies exploring cohort differences on verbal memory tests, and the extent to which they are influenced by socioenvironmental changes across decades (e.g. educational attainment; ethnic makeup), have been limited. We examined differences in performance between the normative...
Alsemari, Ahmad Malloy, Paul F
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The Clinical neuropsychologist
The Behavioral Dyscontrol Scale (BDS) is a brief measure of frontal systems that is adopted from Luria's syndrome analysis approach. The aim of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic utility of the BDS as an objective measure of self-regulation in behavioral variant of frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) and Alzheimer's disease (AD). Two patient gro...
Matchanova, Anastasia Woods, Steven Paul Cushman, Clint Morgan, Erin E Medina, Luis D Babicz, Michelle A Verduzco, Marizela Loft, Shayne
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The Clinical neuropsychologist
The increased use of online pharmacy services in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic provides an important backdrop against which to examine the role of neurocognitive functions in health-related Internet navigation skills among persons with chronic medical conditions, such as HIV disease. Prospective memory (PM) is reliably impaired in HIV disease ...
Goudsmit, Miriam van Campen, Jos Franzen, Sanne van den Berg, Esther Schilt, Thelma Schmand, Ben
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The Clinical neuropsychologist
Detecting dementia in people who are illiterate or have a low level of education is complicated because many cognitive screening tests are not suitable for these persons. Caregiver or informant-based judgment of cognitive status may aid diagnosis. Our goal was to investigate the diagnostic accuracy of the Informant Questionnaire for Cognitive Decli...
Chovaz, Cathy J Rennison, V Lynn Ashton Chorostecki, Dominica O
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The Clinical neuropsychologist
Administration of performance validity tests (PVT) during neuropsychological assessments is standard practice, with the Test of Memory Malingering (TOMM) being a commonly used measure. The TOMM has been well validated in hearing populations with various medical and psychiatric backgrounds. A major gap in the literature is the use of the TOMM amongs...
Kamalyan, Lily Hussain, Mariam A Diaz, Monica M Umlauf, Anya Franklin, Donald R Cherner, Mariana Rivera Mindt, Monica Artiola I Fortuny, Lidia Grant, Igor Heaton, Robert K
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The Clinical neuropsychologist
Objective Latinos in the US are at increased risk for HIV-associated neurocognitive impairment (NCI). Most studies of US Latinos living with HIV have included primarily English-speakers only. We investigated the rate, pattern, and correlates of HIV-associated NCI in native Spanish-speaking Latinos living in the US near the Mexican border. Methods P...
Scott, Travis M Morlett Paredes, Alejandra Taylor, Michael J Umlauf, Anya Artiola I Fortuny, Lidia Heaton, Robert K Cherner, Mariana Marquine, María J Rivera Mindt, Monica
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The Clinical neuropsychologist
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) Block Design and Arithmetic subtests are frequently used as measures of visuospatial construction and verbal working memory, respectively. As part of a larger test adaptation and norming effort for this population, we generated and investigated demographically-adjusted interpretive norms for WAIS-R Block Des...
