Objective To investigate the diagnostic value of subtests of the NEUROPSI battery for differentiating subcortical vascular dementia (SVaD) from Alzheimer's disease (AD). Methods Thirteen patients with mild SVaD, 15 patients with mild probable AD, and 30 healthy controls, matched for age, education and dementia severity (in the case of patients), were submitted to the Mini-Mental State Examina...

BACKGROUND The Middlesex Elderly Assessment of Mental State (MEAMS) was developed as a screening test to detect cognitive impairment in the elderly. It includes 12 subtests, each having a 'pass score'. A series of tasks were undertaken to adapt the measure for use in the adult population in Turkey and to determine the validity of existing cut points for passing subtests, given the wide range of...

BACKGROUND The Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development-third edition (Bayley-III) are frequently used to assess early child development worldwide. However, the original standardization only included US children, and it is still unclear whether or not these norms are adequate for use in other populations. Recently, norms for the Dutch version of the Bayley-III (The Bayley-III-NL) were ma...

BACKGROUND Several diseases and adverse conditions affect the cognitive development of children in Sub-Saharan African. There is need to assess these children to determine which abilities are affected and the severity of the damage so as to plan interventions accordingly. However most psychological tests developed in the West have not been validated in this region making it impossible to know w...

The Woodcock-Johnson (fourth edition; WJ IV; Schrank, McGrew, & Mather, 2014a) was recently redeveloped and retains its linkage to Cattell-Horn-Carroll theory (CHC). Independent reviews (e.g., Canivez, 2017) and investigations (Dombrowski, McGill, & Canivez, 2017) of the structure of the WJ IV full test battery and WJ IV Cognitive have suggested the need for additional factor analytic explorati...

Standardized ability tests that are associated with intelligence often used for student selection. In Germany two different admission procedures to select students medical studies simultaneously; the TMS and HAM-Nat. Due this simultaneous use of both a detailed analysis construct validity is mandatory. Therefore, aim study validation selection by using data 4,528 participants ( M age = 20.42, S...

Abstract Objective Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many services attempted quickly transition a remote format. A need validate delivery of neuropsychological measures arose. TestMyBrain (TMB) from Many Brains Project has been utilizing teleneuropsychology in research since 2017. Method Volunteer participants (N = 147, Mage 29, Medu 15 years, 64.7% white, 54.2% female, 83.2% right-handed, 52.1% ut...

Identification and modification of the risk factors for cognitive decline throughout the adult life span are priority subjects in a progressively aging society; however, much remains to be learned. The aim of this study was to understand whether changes in cognitive function can be affected by hearing impairment (HI) and whether the impact of HI differs depending on the cognitive domain. A tota...