Trail Making Tests Predict Post-Stroke Mortality - Medscape

Trail Making Tests Predict Post-Stroke Mortality
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Clinicians could easily incorporate these readily available neuropsychological tests of visual attention and speed, the Trail Making Test (TMT) A and B, into their routine practice, said lead author Bernice Wiberg, MD, Department of Public Health and ...

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Ryan Sweeney And The 7-Day DL - Over The Monster

Ryan Sweeney And The 7-Day DL
Over The Monster
That agreement, as Corey Dawkins and I wrote about last year when it occurred, is outlined as follows: Mandatory neuropsychological pre-season testing using the ImPACT system. These computerized tests, developed by doctors Mark Lovell and Joseph Maroon ...

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Season of 'Head Hits' May Dull Athletes' Thinking - MedPage Today

Season of 'Head Hits' May Dull Athletes' Thinking
MedPage Today
Note, however, that students at one school who underwent a battery of neuropsychological tests performed at a lower than expected level for acquisition of new information if they participated in contact vs. noncontact sports. Some college football and ...

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Head Impacts in Sports May Reduce Student-Athletes' Learning Ability - Education Week News (blog)


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Head Impacts in Sports May Reduce Student-Athletes' Learning Ability
Education Week News (blog)
In addition, 55 noncontact-sport athletes and 45 contact-sport athletes completed a neuropsychological test battery along with the pre- and postseason ImPACT tests. Of the 45 contact-sport athletes who completed the neuropsychological test, ...
Head Blows May Hamper Learning in College Athletes U.S. News & World Report
Do Head Injuries Affect the Ability to Learn? dailyRx

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Women, Teens Take Longer to Recover From Concussions - Wired News

Women, Teens Take Longer to Recover From Concussions
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Covassin and her colleagues administered baseline neuropsychological tests to athletes from several states over the course of two years. Three hundred of those athletes eventually suffered concussions and were quizzed using three computerized ...

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ADHD Goes to School - Huffington Post

ADHD Goes to School
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While a common starting point, even the best neuropsychological or educational battery of tests does not fully capture real life. Executive function defines how we live, moment to moment, and is not consistently reflected by testing.

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Many welcome Army decision to review PTSD cases - Fayetteville Observer

Many welcome Army decision to review PTSD cases
Fayetteville Observer
Piercy and other soldiers in the battalion contend that doctors in Womack's Traumatic Brain Injury Clinic are ordering soldiers to take neuropsychological tests and then wrongly slapping them with the malingering label. "For a soldier to be sent into ...

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Life Extension Foundation® study finds Cognitex® with NeuroProtection Complex ... - MarketWatch (press release)

Life Extension Foundation® study finds Cognitex® with NeuroProtection Complex ...
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... from baseline to day 30 and day 60, based on taking the online cognitive assessment tool, computerized neuropsychological test, results from a CGI-I (Clinical Global Impression Improvement) scale and an assessment survey for consumer attitude.

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DSM-5 Field Trials Generate Mixed Results - Medscape

DSM-5 Field Trials Generate Mixed Results
Medscape
"I think to make a reliable diagnosis of mild neurocognitive disorder, we're probably going to need to add some neuropsychological testing to distinguish between mild and normal," said Dr. Regier. Alcohol use disorder had a Kappa score of .40 (95% CI, ...

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The Shifting Paradigm in Behavioral Healthcare: An Interview with Brain ... - Medgadget.com


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The Shifting Paradigm in Behavioral Healthcare: An Interview with Brain ...
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It is a series of standardized neuropsychological tests that we have put on the Web. They take you through a series of exercises where you are measured in terms of response speed, the correctness of choice, the decision of alternatives—things of this ...

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