Confabulation has traditionally been attributed to a combination of memory impairment and executive dysfunction, but recent models propose that confabulation can result from executive dysfunction alone. One hundred and ten patients with diverse neurologic and psychiatric diagnoses were subdivided into high-, low-, and non-confabulator groups based upon the ratio of confabulations to total respo...

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a paradigmatic disorder of adult attachment, with high rates of antecedent childhood maltreatment. The neurocognitive correlates of both attachment disturbance and maltreatment are both presently unknown in BPD. This study evaluated whether dimensional adult attachment disturbance in BPD is related to specific neurocognitive deficits, and whether childho...

Executive dysfunction is present in children, adolescents, and adults with a wide range of clinical conditions. A growing body of literature has demonstrated the usefulness of rating scales designed to gauge executive functioning in everyday life. In this article, we discuss evidence supporting the use of such rating scales to assess intervention outcome, how they may inform development of inte...

BACKGROUND Olfactory deficits and executive dysfunction have been reported in Parkinson's disease (PD). However, the association between these deficits has not been thoroughly examined. METHODS We studied 44 PD subjects and 17 age-matched controls. In PD subjects, symptoms were assessed with the Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale and the Hoehn and Yahr scale. Cognition in both groups wa...

OBJECTIVE To identify behavioral manifestations of executive dysfunction that are associated with cerebrovasculopathy, as measured by transcranial Doppler (TCD) ultrasonography, in children with sickle cell disease (HbSS). METHODS Participants were 62 children and adolescents with HbSS disease who had no documented history of cerebrovascular accident. Children were classified according to the...

BACKGROUND Hoarding disorder (HD) is a chronic and debilitating psychiatric condition. Midlife HD patients have been found to have neurocognitive impairment, particularly in areas of executive functioning, but the extent to which this is due to comorbid psychiatric disorders has not been clear. AIMS/METHOD The purpose of the present investigation was to examine executive functioning in geriat...