A Word-List from North Carolina

1944 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-37
Author(s):  
Francis C. Hayes
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Word List

A Word-List from Virginia and North Carolina

1944 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-52
Author(s):  
George P. Wilson
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Word List

Performance of elderly African American and White community residents on the CERAD Neuropsychological Battery

2001 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 502-509 ◽  
Author(s):  
GERDA G. FILLENBAUM ◽  
ALBERT HEYMAN ◽  
MARC S. HUBER ◽  
MARY GANGULI ◽  
FREDERICK W. UNVERZAGT
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
African American ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Racial Differences ◽  
Word List ◽  
Educational Status ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Epidemiological Studies ◽  
Neuropsychological Battery ◽  
Community Residents

The CERAD Neuropsychological Battery, includes 7 measures: Verbal Fluency; Modified Boston Naming; Mini-Mental State; Word List Learning, Recall and Recognition; Constructional Praxis. It was originally developed to evaluate patients with a clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease, but is increasingly used in epidemiological studies of the incidence and prevalence of dementia in the elderly. The current study reports norms for African American and White representative community residents 71 years of age and older in North Carolina, and compares performance with that of African Americans in Indianapolis and with Whites in the Monongahela Valley, Pennsylvania. For all 3 studies, increased education and younger age was related to better performance on each of the 7 measures. Sex differences, when present, tended to favor women. Although on average African Americans performed more poorly than Whites, with demographic characteristics controlled, no significant racial differences were found in the North Carolina sample. Both African American and White participants in North Carolina performed more poorly than their racial counterparts in the other 2 studies, possibly because of selection-induced differences in health and educational status. Nevertheless, the use of an identical evaluation battery, such as the CERAD neuropsychologic instrument, facilitates comparisons not otherwise possible, and should be encouraged. (JINS, 2001, 7, 502–509.)

Between ‘Savage Man’ and ‘Most Faithful Englishman’ Manteo and the Early Anglo-Indian Exchange, 1584–1590

Itinerario ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 146-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Leroy Oberg
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Chesapeake Bay ◽  
One Year ◽  
Anglo Indian

In August of 1587 Manteo, an Indian from Croatoan Island, joined a group of English settlers in an attack on the native village of Dasemunkepeuc, located on the coast of present-day North Carolina. These colonists, amongst whom Manteo lived, had landed on Roanoke Island less than a month before, dumped there by a pilot more interested in hunting Spanish prize ships than in carrying colonists to their intended place of settlement along the Chesapeake Bay. The colonists had hoped to re-establish peaceful relations with area natives, and for that reason they relied upon Manteo to act as an interpreter, broker, and intercultural diplomat. The legacy of Anglo-Indian bitterness remaining from Ralph Lane's military settlement, however, which had hastily abandoned the island one year before, was too great for Manteo to overcome. The settlers found themselves that summer in the midst of hostile Indians.

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