Despite the importance of objective measures of attention to clinical practice, there is a paucity of Brazilian standardized tests. Objective The aim of the present study was the standardization of a normative group for the third version of a computerized test of visual attention (TAVIS-3), developed to evaluate children and adolescents in the 6 to 17 years age range. Methods 631 students f...

Patients' cognitive complaints and subsequent performance on neuropsychological tests often fail to relate. This could, in part, be caused by a Babylonic incongruence between laypeople's and experts' use of cognition words or "jargon." The present study examined the concurrency of experts and laypeople for 18 neuropsychological tests in the cognitive domains "language," "memory," "attention/con...

1 The Wisconsin Card Sort Task (WCST) is a commonly used neuropsychological test of 2 executive or frontal lobe functioning. Traditional behavioral measures from the task 3 (e.g., perseverative errors) distinguish healthy controls from clinical populations, but such 4 measures can be difficult to interpret. In an attempt to supplement traditional measures, 5 we developed and tested a family of ...

OBJECTIVE To critically review the literature from the past 12 years regarding the following key issues in sports-related neuropsychological assessment: (1) the advantages and disadvantages of different neuropsychological assessment modalities; (2) the evidence for and against the current paradigm of baseline/postinjury testing; (3) the role of psychological factors in the evaluation and manage...

Although numerous studies have shown that each neuropsychological test is effective for diagnosing mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or Alzheimer’s disease (AD), studies comparing diagnostic accuracies of various neuropsychological tests are relatively rare and practical cutoff values are not available. The present study aimed to investigate the validity of neuropsychological tests and develop cu...

Objective : There is no exact data reporting prevalence of HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders (HAND) in Japan. In order to clarify the current status of HAND in Japan, we investigated the tests used to establish the diagnosis of HAND. Method : We conducted a questionnaire survey to 12 major hospital registered for HIV treatment in Japan as of November 2013. Results : The survey revealed no...

This study examines the relationships between performance on neuropsychological tests and 4 instrumental activities of daily living (IADL) associated with an increased risk of dementia, in 1,792 nondemented elderly people included in the Personnes Agées Quid (PAQUID) study. There was a decline of neuropsychological performance on each test with increasing IADL dependency, in particular between ...

INTRODUCTION Various neuropsychological studies have been conducted to determine the cognitive functioning of patients with Huntington s disease and their results have shown that the pattern of cognitive decline is thought to be typical of a frontal subcortical dementia. OBJECTIVES To determine if significant differences exist between the cognitive performances of a group diagnosed with Hunti...