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Differential linguistic features of verbal fluency in behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia and primary progressive aphasia
April 19, 2022 . Go to Source Author: E. van den Berg
Air pollution and dementia in older adults in the Ginkgo Evaluation of Memory Study
April 19, 2022 Abstract Introduction Growing evidence implicates air pollution as a risk factor for dementia, but prior work is limited by challenges in diagnostic accuracy and assessing exposures in the decades prior to disease development. We evaluated the impact of...
It looks like construct validity, but look again: Comment on Clutterbuck et al. (2021) and recommendations for test developers in the broad “empathy” domain.
April 13, 2022 Conceptual flaws can undermine even rigorous test development efforts, especially in the broad empathy and social cognition domains, which are characterized by measure proliferation and inconsistently used construct terms. We discuss these issues,...
Changes in emotion processing in early Parkinson’s disease reflect disease progression.
April 6, 2022 Objective: Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder which can substantially affect nonmotor functions related to emotional processing. We aimed to examine the underlying differences in emotional processing in PD by comparing how...
How our brain chemicals drive our behaviour
February 1, 2022 You’ve heard of adrenaline, oxytocin and cortisol, but what about glutamate and GABA? And how much do you really know about the chemicals coursing through your brain? On All in the Mind this week, we take a whistle stop tour through your brain to...
Caregiver strain and fatigue are independent determinants of anxiety among patients early after stroke
February 1, 2022 . Go to Source Author: Mark Y. van der Velde
Time setting errors in the Clock Drawing Test are associated with both semantic and executive deficits
February 1, 2022 . Go to Source Author: Matan Soffer
Memory Binding Test and Its Associations With Hippocampal Volume Across the Cognitive Continuum Preceding Dementia
February 1, 2022 Assessment, Ahead of Print. Innovative memory paradigms have been introduced to capture subtle memory changes in early Alzheimer’s disease (AD). We aimed to examine the associations between different indexes of the challenging Memory Binding Test...
87| Neuropsych Bite: Clinical Case 6 – With Dr. Beth Slomine
February 1, 2022 In Clinical Case 6, Dr. Beth Slomine presents a neuropsychological evaluation of a 17-year-old boy with a history of traumatic brain injury. Show notes are available at www.NavNeuro.com/87 _________________ If you’d like to support the show, here are...
How asynchronous video interviews are used in practice: A study of an Australian‐based AVI vendor
February 1, 2022 Abstract With an archival data set from an Australian-based asynchronous video interview (AVI) vendor, we examined how employers implemented AVI features as a step toward understanding how AVIs can be more optimally designed. The multilevel data...
