scholarly journals Cognitive Profile of Paranoid Schizophrenia on LNNB

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Susmita Halder ◽  
Akash Kumar Mahato ◽  
Masroor Jahan
Keyword(s):  
Social Relationships ◽  
Cognitive Assessment ◽  
Paranoid Schizophrenia ◽  
Cognitive Profile ◽  
Cognitive Profiles ◽  
Thought Process ◽  
Neuropsychological Battery ◽  
Psychomotor Activity ◽  
Major Psychiatric Disorder ◽  
Functional Areas

Schizophrenia is a major psychiatric disorder characterized by a disruption in affective, cognitive and social domains, which results in compromised ability to adapt to a changing environment and to function adequately in the community. Schizophrenia is often accompanied by gross and progressive impairment in different functional areas of a person. They are mostly seen in the form of – cognitive impairment (executive functions, information processing, attention, learning and memory), psychomotor activity, speech, thought process, perception, and abstraction. These deficits are evident in nearly all individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia, and their impact on the employment, social relationships and living status of patients is devastating. However, there could be differences among cognitive profiles of different schizophrenia subtypes. Luria Nebraska Neuropsychological Battery (LNNB) is a widely used standardized neuropsychological tool for cognitive assessment. In the present study, 30 male paranoid schizophrenia patients were assessed on the LNNB- Form I to see the profile of cognitive functioning on this tool.

Clinical Decision-Making for Stroke and Aphasia in the Older Adult

2009 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacqueline Hinckley
Keyword(s):  
Executive Function ◽  
Cerebrovascular Disease ◽  
Cognitive Abilities ◽  
Clinical Decision Making ◽  
Clinical Decision ◽  
Cognitive Profile ◽  
Focal Lesion ◽  
Cognitive Profiles ◽  
Supportive Communication ◽  
Spaced Retrieval

Abstract A patient with aphasia that is uncomplicated by other cognitive abilities will usually show a primary impairment of language. The frequency of additional cognitive impairments associated with cerebrovascular disease, multiple (silent or diagnosed) infarcts, or dementia increases with age and can complicate a single focal lesion that produces aphasia. The typical cognitive profiles of vascular dementia or dementia due to cerebrovascular disease may differ from the cognitive profile of patients with Alzheimer's dementia. In order to complete effective treatment selection, clinicians must know the cognitive profile of the patient and choose treatments accordingly. When attention, memory, and executive function are relatively preserved, strategy-based and conversation-based interventions provide the best choices to target personally relevant communication abilities. Examples of treatments in this category include PACE and Response Elaboration Training. When patients with aphasia have co-occurring episodic memory or executive function impairments, treatments that rely less on these abilities should be selected. Examples of treatments that fit these selection criteria include spaced retrieval and errorless learning. Finally, training caregivers in the use of supportive communication strategies is helpful to patients with aphasia, with or without additional cognitive complications.

Comparisons among Neo-Lurian Assessment Measures of Brain-Injured Adults

1994 ◽  
Vol 74 (3) ◽  
pp. 975-978
Author(s):  
Christopher A. Sink ◽  
Douglas E. Harrington
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Community College ◽  
Community College Students ◽  
Cognitive Assessment ◽  
Brain Injuries ◽  
Neuropsychological Battery ◽  
Simultaneous Processing ◽  
Brain Injured ◽  
Assessment Measures ◽  
Pearson Correlations

The performances of 49 brain-injured community college students (41% women; M age = 34.0 yr., SD = 13.6) on two neo-Lurian assessment batteries were investigated. Pearson correlations among the 11 clinical subtests of the Luria-Nebraska Neuropsychological Battery, Form I and 10 Planning, Attention, Simultaneous Processing, and Successive Processing (PASS) experimental tasks are reported. While the correlations were largely weak to moderate, a few interpretable trends in these relationships emerged. Over-all, the irregular and diffuse pattern of significant correlations may, in part, reflect the heterogeneity of the Luria-Nebraska battery's subscales. Implications for the cognitive assessment and remediation of patients with brain injuries are briefly discussed.

The cognitive profile of behavioural variant FTD and its similarities with ALS: a systematic review and meta-analysis

2018 ◽  
Vol 89 (9) ◽  
pp. 995-1002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Beeldman ◽  
Joost Raaphorst ◽  
Michelle Klein Twennaar ◽  
Rosanne Govaarts ◽  
Yolande A L Pijnenburg ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Impairment ◽  
Social Cognition ◽  
Executive Functions ◽  
Verbal Memory ◽  
Cognitive Profile ◽  
Effect Sizes ◽  
Healthy Controls ◽  
Cognitive Profiles ◽  
Cognitive Domains ◽  
Visual Comparison

Approximately 30% of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) have cognitive impairment and 8%–14% fulfil the criteria for behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia (bv-FTD). The cognitive profiles of ALS and bv-FTD have been reported to be comparable, but this has never been systematically investigated. We aimed to determine the cognitive profile of bv-FTD and examine its similarities with that of ALS, to provide evidence for the existence of a cognitive disease continuum encompassing bv-FTD and ALS. We therefore systematically reviewed neuropsychological studies on bv-FTD patients and healthy volunteers. Neuropsychological tests were divided in 10 cognitive domains and effect sizes were calculated for all domains and compared with the cognitive profile of ALS by means of a visual comparison and a Pearson’s r correlation coefficient. We included 120 studies, totalling 2425 bv-FTD patients and 2798 healthy controls. All cognitive domains showed substantial effect sizes, indicating cognitive impairment in bv-FTD patients compared to healthy controls. The cognitive domains with the largest effect sizes were social cognition, verbal memory and fluency (1.77–1.53). The cognitive profiles of bv-FTD and ALS (10 cognitive domains, 1287 patients) showed similarities on visual comparison and a moderate correlation 0.58 (p=0.13). When social cognition, verbal memory, fluency, executive functions, language and visuoperception were considered, i.e. the cognitive profile of ALS, Pearson’s r was 0.73 (p=0.09), which raised to 0.92 (p=0.03), when language was excluded in this systematic analysis of patients with a non-language subtype of FTD. The cognitive profile of bv-FTD consists of deficits in social cognition, verbal memory, fluency and executive functions and shows similarities with the cognitive profile of ALS. These findings support a cognitive continuum encompassing ALS and bv-FTD.

An eye-tracking controlled neuropsychological battery for cognitive assessment in neurological diseases

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 595-603 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Poletti ◽  
Laura Carelli ◽  
Federica Solca ◽  
Annalisa Lafronza ◽  
Elisa Pedroli ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Eye Tracking ◽  
Cognitive Assessment ◽  
Neurological Diseases ◽  
Neuropsychological Battery

Recent Case Developments in Health Law

2009 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 380-388
Author(s):  
Brett Hartman
Keyword(s):  
Paranoid Schizophrenia ◽  
Mental Capacity ◽  
Judicial Discretion ◽  
Health Law ◽  
Thought Process ◽  
Hunger Strike ◽  
Political Dissent ◽  
Rational Thought ◽  
Prison Guards ◽  
Court Of Appeal

In January 2009, the California Court of Appeal for the Fifth District held that an individual suffering from paranoid schizophrenia could be forcefed and medicated despite his refusal of consent. The patient was a prison inmate, who engaged in a hunger strike to protest imagined abuses by prison guards. The court, reconciling conflicting provisions of California law, upheld the appointment of a conservator to make treatment decisions because the patient could not participate in those decisions “by means of a rational thought process.” However, in tying mental capacity to the plausibility of a protestor’s claims, the court risks placing political dissent at the mercy of judicial discretion.

The Cognitive Assessment Screening Test (CAST) for Dementia

1996 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 200-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
David A. Drachman ◽  
Joan M. Swearer ◽  
Kevin Kane ◽  
Diane Osgood ◽  
Colleen O'Toole ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Impairment ◽  
Sensitivity And Specificity ◽  
Cognitive Assessment ◽  
Screening Test ◽  
General Medicine ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Cognitive Test ◽  
Neuropsychological Battery ◽  
Part C ◽  
Dementia Screening

The purpose of this study was to assess the usefulness, the sensitivity, and the specificity of the Cognitive Assessment Screening Test (CAST), a paper-and-pencil self-administered cognitive test designed to screen elderly people for possible dementia, for use in general physicians' offices, requiring little expertise or staff time. CAST consists of three parts: part A (relatively easy), part B (more demanding), and part C (self-report of concerns). CAST was administered in two studies to: (1) 19 patients known to be mildly to moderately demented versus 24 age-matched normal controls (to establish cutoff standards); and (2) a “real world” sample of 26 elderly patients not known to be demented, attending a general medicine clinic. The sensitivity and specificity of CAST were compared with the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) and the Blessed Dementia Scale cognitive portion (BDS-cog). In study 1, controls were given a detailed neuropsychological battery; in study 2, all patients were given the neuropsychological battery, which served as the “gold standard” to identify individuals with cognitive impairment. In study 1, the cutoff scores for dementia using CAST (Parts A and B) were established. CAST discriminated demented patients from controls with a sensitivity of 95% and a specificity of 88%; the MMSE had a sensitivity of 74% and a specificity of 100%; and the BDS-cog had a sensitivity of 100% and a specificity of 96%. In study 2, CAST discriminated cognitive impairment with a sensitivity of 88% and a specificity of 100%, the MMSE had a sensitivity of 38% and a specificity of 100%; and the BDS-cog had a sensitivity of 50% and a specificity of 94%. Part C was not used to discriminate demented from normal elderly individuals, but to screen for those concerned about their cognitive functioning. CAST is highly useful as a dementia screening test, with sensitivity and specificity equal to or better than the MMSE and BDS-cog, yet requiring minimal examiner time and little training or experience to administer.

The Metacognitive Component of Academic Self-Concept: The Development of a Triarchic Self-Scale

2010 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel D. Mandelman ◽  
Mei Tan ◽  
Sergey A. Kornilov ◽  
Robert J. Sternberg ◽  
Elena L. Grigorenko
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Cognitive Assessment ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Q Factor ◽  
Cognitive Profiles ◽  
Factor Analyses ◽  
Additional Source ◽  
Successful Intelligence ◽  
Source Of Information

Self-concept—more specifically academic self-concept—and its connection to academic achievement have long been studied. It has been widely accepted that one’s self-concept is formed through interaction with one’s environment and significant others. Here we suggest that an internal metacognitive component of self-concept is also critical to its development. This hypothesis is investigated here by the development of a metacognitive-academic self-concept scale as part of a larger battery based on Sternberg’s triarchic model of successful intelligence. The academic self-concept scale’s psychometric properties, with respect to both children and adults, and its correlations with a group-administered cognitive assessment are presented. Additionally, a series of Q-factor analyses of the results on the scale are provided, revealing multiple distinguishable academic self-concept profiles. Collectively, these data suggest that a self-concept scale regarding one’s abilities can provide an additional source of information for the cognitive profiles of students.

Cognitive profiles in patients with epileptic and nonepileptic seizures evaluated using a brief cognitive assessment tool

2020 ◽  
pp. 107643
Author(s):  
Roxane Dilcher ◽  
Charles B. Malpas ◽  
Mark Walterfang ◽  
Patrick Kwan ◽  
Terence J. O'Brien ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Assessment ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Cognitive Profiles ◽  
Nonepileptic Seizures ◽  
Brief Cognitive Assessment

The Cognitive Assessment Battery (CAB): a rapid test of cognitive domains

2011 ◽  
Vol 23 (7) ◽  
pp. 1144-1151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arto Nordlund ◽  
Lisbeth Påhlsson ◽  
Christina Holmberg ◽  
Karin Lind ◽  
Anders Wallin
Keyword(s):  
Sensitivity And Specificity ◽  
Cognitive Assessment ◽  
Mini Mental State Examination ◽  
Rapid Test ◽  
Cognitive Profile ◽  
Good Sensitivity ◽  
Assessment Battery ◽  
Cognitive Domains ◽  
Visuospatial Functions ◽  
State Examination

ABSTRACTBackground: The study aimed to evaluate the Cognitive Assessment Battery (CAB) in a specialist clinic setting in order to find out if it if it could be a supplement to the Mini-mental State Examination (MMSE) and distinguish between normal aging, mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and dementia, as well as MCI of different severities.Methods: CAB consists of six short tests covering the cognitive domains of speed/attention, episodic memory, visuospatial functions, language and executive functions. It takes about 20 minutes to carry out and provides a quick overview of the patient's cognitive profile. Three groups were compared: healthy controls (N = 41), MCI (N = 83) and mild dementia (N = 28).Results: CAB distinguished very clearly between controls and MCI as well as MCI and dementia. On further analysis CAB also distinguished between MCI of different severities. It also showed to have good sensitivity and specificity for identifying more severe MCI.Conclusions: CAB seems to be a useful supplement to MMSE and a screening instrument for MCI and dementia with good sensitivity and specificity.

scholarly journals Cognitive Performance in Relapsing-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis: At Risk or Impaired?

2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (6) ◽  
pp. 539-543
Author(s):  
Marta Altieri ◽  
Mariangela Fratino ◽  
Ilaria Maestrini ◽  
Claudia Dionisi ◽  
Rosanna Annecca ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Multiple Sclerosis ◽  
At Risk ◽  
Cognitive Assessment ◽  
Screening Test ◽  
Neuropsychological Battery ◽  
Relapsing Remitting ◽  
Patients At Risk ◽  
Risk Patients ◽  
Lower Education ◽  
Relapsing Remitting Multiple Sclerosis

<b><i>Introduction:</i></b> Since cognitive impairment (CI) occurs on average in 45% of multiple sclerosis (MS) patients, the early detection of patients “at risk” of CI is important in order to promptly apply preventive strategies. The aim of the present study was to investigate the prevalence and risk factors for CI in MS patients using the Brief International Cognitive Assessment for Multiple Sclerosis (BICAMS) as a screening test. <b><i>Methods:</i></b> During the 1-year period, CI was evaluated in 82 consecutives mild relapsing-remitting MS (EDSS ≤ 3.5) patients. Patients with 1 altered BICAMS test were defined “at risk.” Both “at risk” and CI patients underwent an extensive neuropsychological battery. <b><i>Results:</i></b> We found that: (i) 23% had CI, (ii), 25% were “at risk” of CI, and (iii) 76% of the “at risk” patients were already impaired at the NP assessment. In particular, the Symbol Digit Modalities Test was the most compromised (70% of “at risk” and 79% of CI patients). Patients with CI had more frequently an EDSS ≥ 2.5 (<i>p</i> = 0.05), lower education (<i>p</i> = 0.05), and relapses in the last 12 months (<i>p</i> = 0.03). <b><i>Conclusions:</i></b> CI is a significant issue in MS and integration of a screening test, such as the SDMT, into routine clinical practice could be of worth to identify “at risk” patients and to promote an early therapeutic intervention.

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