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Introduction to the special issue on cognitive neurosurgery J. Neuropsychol. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Adrià Rofes, Vitória Piai
CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT All authors declare no conflict of interest.
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Measures of executive function may not be indicators of latent constructs J. Neuropsychol. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Jordan Holmén, William Chaplin, Tamara Del Vecchio
Executive function (EF) is represented by a multidimensional set of measures. The central EFs considered are inhibitory control, working memory and cognitive flexibility (task shifting). Unlike other ability constructs, it has proven difficult to identify latent factors that underlie EF. Research has often taken a factor analytic approach for grouping executive functioning tasks. However, this approach
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The German version of the Oxford Cognitive Screen (D-OCS): Normative data and validation in acute stroke and a mixed neurological sample J. Neuropsychol. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Tobias Bormann, Christoph P. Kaller, Caterina Kulyk, Nele Demeyere, Cornelius Weiller
Given the frequency of stroke worldwide, tools for neuropsychological assessment of patients with acute stroke are needed to identify cognitive impairments, guide rehabilitation efforts and allow for a prognosis of outcome. However, requirements for assessment tools for acute cognitive deficits differ substantially from tests for chronic neuropsychological impairments and screening tools for suspected
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An immersive virtual reality tool for assessing left and right unilateral spatial neglect J. Neuropsychol. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Marine Thomasson, Daniel Perez-Marcos, Sonia Crottaz-Herbette, Fanny Brenet, Arnaud Saj, Thérèse Bernati, Andrea Serino, Tej Tadi, Olaf Blanke, Roberta Ronchi
The reported rate of the occurrence of unilateral spatial neglect (USN) is highly variable likely due to the lack of validity and low sensitivity of classical tools used to assess it. Virtual reality (VR) assessments try to overcome these limitations by proposing immersive and complex environments. Nevertheless, existing VR-based tasks are mostly focused only on near space and lack analysis of psychometric
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Disentangling effects of remote mild traumatic brain injury characteristics and posttraumatic stress on processing speed and executive function in veterans J. Neuropsychol. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Ryan C. Thompson, Meredith R. D. Melinder, Heather A. Daly, Stacie L. Warren
Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) and posttraumatic stress are prevalent in military service members and share objective and subjective cognitive symptoms, complicating recovery. We investigated the effects of remote mTBI characteristics and current posttraumatic stress symptoms on neuropsychological performance in 152 veterans with a history of remote mTBI and current cognitive concerns. Participants
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The guaranteed euros: Probabilistic discounting in behavioural-variant frontotemporal dementia J. Neuropsychol. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Claire Boutoleau-Bretonnière, Dimitrios Kapogiannis, Mohamad El Haj
Financial decision-making requires trading off between guaranteed and probabilistic outcomes and between immediate and delayed ones. While research has demonstrated that patients with behavioural-variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) prefer immediate rewards at the expense of future ones (i.e. temporal discounting), little is known about how patients choose between smaller, guaranteed and larger
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Verb generation for presurgical mapping: Gaining specificity J. Neuropsychol. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Elena Salillas, Concetta Luisi, Giorgio Arcara, Elif Nur Varlı, Domenico d'Avella, Carlo Semenza
Verb generation is among the most frequently used tasks in presurgical mapping. Because this task involves many processes, the overall brain effects are not specific. While it is necessary to identify the whole network involving noun comprehension or semantic retrieval and lexical selection to produce the verb, isolation of those components is also crucial. Here, we present data from four patients
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Verbal and nonverbal fluency in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis J. Neuropsychol. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-23 Megan S. Barker, Amelia Ceslis, Rosemary Argall, Pamela McCombe, Robert D. Henderson, Gail A. Robinson
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a multi-system disorder that commonly affects cognition and behaviour. Verbal fluency impairments are consistently reported in ALS patients, and we aimed to investigate whether this deficit extends beyond the verbal domain. We further aimed to determine whether deficits are underpinned by a primary intrinsic response generation impairment (i.e., a global reduction
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Feasibility and relevance of an immersive virtual reality cancellation task assessing far space in unilateral spatial neglect J. Neuropsychol. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 A. Guilbert, T.-G. Bara, T. Bouchara, M. Gaffard, C. Bourlon
Unilateral spatial neglect (USN) is a highly prevalent neuropsychological syndrome. However, its assessment in clinical practice, mainly based on paper-and-pencil tests, encounters limits as only near space, called peripersonal, is assessed. However, USN is a multicomponent syndrome that can also affect far space, called extrapersonal. This space is not assessed in current clinical assessment although
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IDEAL monitoring of musical skills during awake craniotomy: From step 1 to step 2 J. Neuropsychol. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 C. H. Ferrier, C. Ruis, D. Zadelhoff, P. A. J. T. Robe, M. J. E. van Zandvoort
The aim of awake brain surgery is to perform a maximum resection on the one hand, and to preserve cognitive functions, quality of life and personal autonomy on the other hand. Historically, language and sensorimotor functions were most frequently monitored. Over the years other cognitive functions, including music, have entered the operation theatre. Cases about monitoring musical abilities during
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The vanishing of the ACoA syndrome after aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage: New era, different management, fewer problems? J. Neuropsychol. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 A. M. Buunk, J. M. Spikman, M. Wagemakers, J. R. Jeltema, J. de Vries, A. Mazuri, M. Uyttenboogaart, R. J. M. Groen
Historically, a specific set of symptoms has been related to the rupture and repair of anterior communicating artery (ACoA) aneurysms. These consequences were defined as the ‘ACoA syndrome’ and included observations of severe memory loss, confabulation and personality or behavioural changes. These observations correspond to neuropsychological impairments in memory, executive functions and social cognition
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Written language preservation in glioma patients undergoing awake surgery: The value of tailored intra-operative assessment J. Neuropsychol. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-10-16 Fleur Céline van Ierschot, Wencke Veenstra, Antonio Miozzo, Barbara Santini, Hanne-Rinck Jeltema, Giannantonio Spena, Gabriele Miceli
Written language is increasingly important, as contemporary society strongly relies on text-based communication. Nonetheless, in neurosurgical practice, language preservation has classically focused on spoken language. The current study aimed to evaluate the potential role of intra-operative assessments in the preservation of written language skills in glioma patients undergoing awake surgery. It is
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The autobiographical fluency task: Validity and reliability of a tool to assess episodic autobiographical memory and experience-near personal semantics J. Neuropsychol. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Matilde Conti, Alice Teghil, Maddalena Boccia
The assessment of autobiographical memory is challenging in clinical settings. The Autobiographical Fluency Task (AFT) – that is designed to test both Episodic Autobiographical Memory (EAM) and experience-near Personal Semantics (enPS) – may represent a feasible and rapid method to test access to autobiographical memories. Here we tested the reliability and the construct validity of the AFT. A total
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Understanding language and cognition after brain surgery – Tumour grade, fine-grained assessment tools and, most of all, individualized approach J. Neuropsychol. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-10-12 Anna Gasa-Roqué, Adrià Rofes, Marta Simó, Montserrat Juncadella, Imma Rico Pons, Angels Camins, Andreu Gabarrós, Antoni Rodríguez-Fornells, Joanna Sierpowska
Cognitive performance influences the quality of life and survival of people with glioma. Thus, a detailed neuropsychological and language evaluation is essential. In this work, we tested if an analysis of errors in naming can indicate semantic and/or phonological impairments in 87 awake brain surgery patients. Secondly, we explored how language and cognition change after brain tumour resection. Finally
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Evidence for a dissociation between moral reasoning and moral decision-making in Tourette syndrome J. Neuropsychol. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-10-03 Carmelo Mario Vicario, Nicoletta Maugeri, Chiara Lucifora, Adriana Prato, Massimo Mucciardi, Davide Martino, Renata Rizzo
Despite the growing interest on how Tourette syndrome (TS) affects social cognition skills, this field remains to date relatively under-explored. Here, we aim to advance knowledge on the topic by studying moral decision-making and moral reasoning in a group of adolescents with TS and a group of healthy controls. Overall, we found higher endorsement (i.e. a greater ‘yes’ response rate) for utilitarian
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Preserving the ability to discriminate between left and right; A case study J. Neuropsychol. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-09-28 Carla Ruis, Pierre A. Robe, H. Chris Dijkerman
Left-right orientation, a function related to the parietal lobe, is important for many daily activities. Here, we describe a left-handed patient with a right parietal brain tumour. During awake surgery, electric stimulation of the right inferior parietal lobe resulted in mistakes in his left-right orientation. Postoperatively our patient had no problems in discriminating left right. This case report
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Effectiveness of Snoezelen in older adults with neurocognitive and other pathologies: A systematic review of the literature J. Neuropsychol. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-09-21 Sónia C. Carvalho, Fátima S. Martins, Amélia N. Martins, Raquel C. Barbosa, Selene G. Vicente
Snoezelen Multisensory Stimulation (SMSS) is a non-pharmacological intervention that provides controlled multisensorial environments to stimulate the primary senses: sight, hearing, smell, touch, taste, proprioceptive and vestibular. Even though the use and potential of SMSS have been widespread in the literature regarding certain target populations (autism, developmental disabilities) and settings
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Predictive factors of post-operative apathy in patients with diffuse frontal gliomas undergoing awake brain mapping J. Neuropsychol. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-09-20 Kazuya Motomura, Ai Kawamura, Fumiharu Ohka, Kosuke Aoki, Tomohide Nishikawa, Junya Yamaguchi, Yuji Kibe, Hiroki Shimizu, Sachi Maeda, Ryuta Saito
Patients with diffuse frontal gliomas often present with post-operative apathy after tumour removal. However, the association between apathy and tumour removal of gliomas from the frontal lobe remains unknown. This study aimed to investigate the factors influencing post-operative apathy after tumour removal in patients with diffuse frontal gliomas. We compared the demographics and clinical characteristics
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Exploring longitudinal changes in implicit awareness of dementia: An investigation of the emotional Stroop effect in healthy ageing and mild dementia J. Neuropsychol. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Anthony Martyr, Sharon M. Nelis, Robin G. Morris, Ivana S. Marková, Ilona Roth, Robert T. Woods, Linda Clare
The aim of the study was to investigate responses to dementia-relevant words in healthy older people and to investigate changes in response over 20-months in people with early-stage dementia. An emotional Stroop task, using colour-naming dementia-relevant words, was used as an indicator of implicit awareness of dementia. Overall, 24 people with dementia and 24 healthy older people completed an emotional
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Effects of musical mnemonics on working memory performance in cognitively unimpaired older adults and persons with amnestic mild cognitive impairment J. Neuropsychol. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-08-15 Marije W. Derks-Dijkman, Rebecca S. Schaefer, Lisa Baan-Wessels, Ilse A. D. A. van Tilborg, Roy P. C. Kessels
Episodic memory (EM) and working memory (WM) are negatively affected by healthy ageing, and additional memory impairment typically occurs in clinical ageing-related conditions such as amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI). Recent studies on musical mnemonics in Alzheimer's dementia (AD) showed promising results on EM performance. However, the effects of musical mnemonics on WM performance have
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Impaired facial emotion recognition in relation to social behaviours in de novo Parkinson's disease J. Neuropsychol. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-07-24 Anne Carien Slomp, Sygrid van der Zee, Jeffrey M. Boertien, Marleen J. J. Gerritsen, Teus van Laar, Jacoba M. Spikman
Facial emotion recognition (FER) is a crucial component of social cognition and is essential in social-interpersonal behaviour regulation. Although FER impairment is well-established in advanced PD, data about FER at the time of diagnosis and its relationship with social behavioural problems in daily life are lacking. The aim was to examine FER at the time of PD diagnosis compared to a matched healthy
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Spontaneous unilateral spatial neglect recovery after brain tumour resection: A multimodal diffusion and rs-fMRI case report J. Neuropsychol. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-07-10 Luca Zigiotto, Gabriele Amorosino, Francesca Saviola, Jorge Jovicich, Luciano Annicchiarico, Umberto Rozzanigo, Emanuele Olivetti, Paolo Avesani, Silvio Sarubbo
Patients with unilateral spatial neglect (USN) are unable to explore or to report stimuli presented in the left personal and extra-personal space. USN is usually caused by lesion of the right parietal lobe: nowadays, it is also clear the key role of structural connections (the second and the third branch of the right Superior Longitudinal Fasciculus, respectively, SLF II and III) and functional networks
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Neural correlates of distorted body images in adolescent girls with anorexia nervosa: How is it different from major depressive disorder? J. Neuropsychol. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-07-10 Yağmur Karakuş Aydos, Dicle Dövencioğlu, Kader Karlı Oğuz, Pınar Özdemir, Melis Pehlivantürk Kızılkan, Nuray Kanbur, Dilek Ünal, Kevser Nalbant, Füsun Çetin Çuhadaroğlu, Devrim Akdemir
Body image disturbance is closely linked to eating disorders including anorexia nervosa (AN). Distorted body image perception, dissatisfaction and preoccupation with weight and shape are often key factors in the development and maintenance of these disorders. Although the pathophysiological mechanism of body image disorder is not yet fully understood, aberrant biological processes may interfere with
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Cognitive evaluation and rehabilitation in high- and low-income countries J. Neuropsychol. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-07-09 Anna Mazzucchi
Starting from her own personal experience, in the First Part of the article, the author reconstructs how the specialized sectors of cognitive evaluation and rehabilitation evolved in Western countries (Europe, the United States, Canada, and Australia, in particular) during the second half of the last century and the first decades of this century. In the Second Part, she describes her personal experience
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Stability of face recognition abilities after left or right anterior temporal lobectomy J. Neuropsychol. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-06-30 Angélique Volfart, Bruno Rossion, Hélène Brissart, Thomas Busigny, Sophie Colnat-Coulbois, Louis Maillard, Jacques Jonas
Patients with anterior temporal lobe (ATL) resection due to mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (MTLE) have difficulties at identifying familiar faces and explicitly remembering newly learned faces but their ability to individuate unfamiliar faces remains largely unknown. Moreover, the extent to which their difficulties with familiar face identity recognition and learning is truly due to the ATL resection
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Performance on complex memory tests is associated with β-amyloid in individuals at risk of developing Alzheimer's disease J. Neuropsychol. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-06-29 Pernille Louise Kjeldsen, Malene Flensborg Damholdt, Lasse Stensvig Madsen, Peter Henrik Nissen, Joel Fredrik Astrup Aanerud, Peter Parbo, Rola Ismail, Malene Kaasing, Simon Fristed Eskildsen, Leif Østergaard, David James Brooks
The pathophysiological development of Alzheimer's disease (AD) begins in the brain years before the onset of clinical symptoms. The accumulation of beta-amyloid (Aβ) is thought to be the first cortical pathology to occur. Carrying one apolipoprotein E (APOE) ε4 allele increases the risk of developing AD at least 2–3 times and is associated with earlier Aβ accumulation. Although it is difficult to identify
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Identifying subgroups of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder from the psychopathological and neuropsychological profiles J. Neuropsychol. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Shan-hong Zhang, Tian-xiao Yang, Zhao-min Wu, Yu-feng Wang, Simon S. Y. Lui, Bin-rang Yang, Raymond C. K. Chan
The Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) advocates the dimensional approach in characterizing mental disorders. We followed RDoC to characterize children with ADHD using profiling based on the cognitive and psychopathological domains. We aimed to identify and validate ADHD subtypes with different clinical characteristics and functional impairments. We recruited 362 drug-naïve children with ADHD and 103
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The influence of working memory and processing speed on other aspects of cognitive functioning in de novo Parkinson's disease: Initial findings from network modelling and graph theory J. Neuropsychol. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-06-27 Cameron E. Ferguson, Jennifer A. Foley
Deficits in working memory (WM) and processing speed (PS) are thought to undermine other cognitive functions in de novo Parkinson's disease (dnPD). However, these interrelationships are only partially understood. This study investigated whether there are stronger relationships between verbal WM and verbal episodic memory encoding and retrieval, whether verbal WM and PS have a greater influence on other
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Sub-second timing irregularities in a simple motor task in autism spectrum disorder: Preliminary effects of intermittent light stimulation J. Neuropsychol. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-06-24 Joana C. Carmo, Carlos N. Filipe
Several authors have contributed extensively to the neurocognitive understanding of timing. In Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) on the contrary, internal timing and its functioning is not well understood. In this study, we have adapted a simple finger-tapping motor task, with a timing component, as we aim at understanding whether the processing of time is preserved in this population. We have tested
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The impact of deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus on facial emotion recognition in patients with Parkinson's disease J. Neuropsychol. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-06-24 Annelien A. Duits, Eva M. de Ronde, R. Saman Vinke, Sandra H. Vos, Rianne A. J. Esselink, Roy P. C. Kessels
Deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the subthalamic nucleus (STN) is successful in patients with advanced Parkinson's disease (PD) but may worsen cognitive outcome, including facial emotion recognition (FER). Data-analyses on 59 consecutive PD patients with complete pre- and postoperative assessments, using a sensitive FER test, showed no changes in FER 1 year after STN-DBS surgery, both after group and
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Learning capacity in early-stage Alzheimer's disease: The role of feedback during learning on memory performance J. Neuropsychol. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-06-15 Inge Scheper, Inti A. Brazil, Jurgen A. H. R. Claassen, Dirk Bertens, Sofie Geurts, Roy P. C. Kessels
Alzheimer's disease is characterized by a decline in episodic memory and executive functioning, hampering learning ability. Insight into outcome-based learning capacity may be relevant for optimizing the learning potential of these patients. To date, mixed results have been found in studies in which cognitively impaired participants have to learn based on positive and negative outcomes. In this study
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Examining the validity of the Delis–Kaplan Executive Function System (D-KEFS) in traumatic brain injury J. Neuropsychol. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-06-14 David Hacker, Christopher A. Jones, Yin Ming Chan, Eyrsa Yasin, Zoe Clowes, Antonio Belli, Julian Cooper, Deepa Bose, Andrew Hawkins, Holly Davies, Emily Paton
This study examines the validity of the Delis–Kaplan Executive Function System (D-KEFS) in a traumatic brain injury (TBI) population compared to participants with orthopaedic injuries and normative controls. The utility of the D-KEFS was examined using a between groups design. One hundred patients with mild uncomplicated to severe TBI were recruited from a consecutive cohort of patients admitted as
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Deep brain stimulation in dystonia: The added value of neuropsychological assessments J. Neuropsychol. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-06-13 Maraike A. Coenen, Hendriekje Eggink, Martje E. van Egmond, D. L. Marinus Oterdoom, J. Marc C. van Dijk, Teus van Laar, Jacoba M. Spikman, Marina A. J. Tijssen
Deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the internal globus pallidus (GPi) is a recognized treatment for medication-refractory dystonia. Problems in executive functions and social cognition can be part of dystonia phenotypes. The impact of pallidal DBS on cognition appears limited, but not all cognitive domains have been investigated yet. In the present study, we compare cognition before and after GPi DBS
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Frontotemporal contributions to social and non-social semantic judgements J. Neuropsychol. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-05-31 Joakim Norberg, Stephanie McMains, Jonas Persson, Jason P. Mitchell
Semantic judgements involve the use of general knowledge about the world in specific situations. Such judgements are typically associated with activity in a number of brain regions that include the left inferior frontal gyrus (IFG). However, previous studies showed activity in brain regions associated with mentalizing, including the right temporoparietal junction (TPJ), in semantic judgements that
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Premorbid cognitive functioning influences differences between self-reported cognitive difficulties and cognitive assessment in multiple sclerosis J. Neuropsychol. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-05-22 Clara Stein, Fiadhnait O'Keeffe, Caoimhe McManus, Niall Tubridy, Maria Gaughan, Christopher McGuigan, Jessica Bramham
Cognitive difficulties are reported in up to 60% of people with MS (pwMS). There is often a discrepancy between self-reported cognitive difficulties and performance on cognitive assessments. Some of this discrepancy can be explained by depression and fatigue. Pre-MS cognitive abilities may be another important variable in explaining differences between self-reported and assessed cognitive abilities
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The indirect effect of cognitive reserve on the relationship between age and cognition in pathological ageing: A cross-sectional retrospective study in an unselected and consecutively enrolled sample J. Neuropsychol. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Francesco Giaquinto, Giorgia Tosi, Chiara Abbatantuono, Ilaria Pepe, Marika Iaia, Luigi Macchitella, Ezia Rizzi, Maria Fara De Caro, Daniele Romano, Paolo Taurisano, Paola Angelelli
Cognitive reserve (CR) allows individuals to maintain cognitive functionality even in the presence of pathologies. The compensation hypothesis suggests that CR plays an indirect role between age and cognitive decline, contrasting the negative effect of ageing on cognition. We test this hypothesis in an unselected and consecutively enrolled sample of memory clinic attendees (n = 134) who completed the
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Social cognition and real-life functioning in patient samples with 22q11.2 deletion syndrome with or without psychosis, compared to a large sample of patients with schizophrenia only and healthy controls J. Neuropsychol. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Marianna Frascarelli, Tommaso Accinni, Antonino Buzzanca, Luca Carlone, Francesco Ghezzi, Antonella Moschillo, Georgios D. Kotzalidis, Paola Bucci, Giulia Maria Giordano, Martina Fanella, Carlo Di Bonaventura, Carolina Putotto, Bruno Marino, Massimo Pasquini, Massimo Biondi, Fabio Di Fabio
Patients with the 22q11.2 deletion syndrome (DS) show an increased risk of developing a psychotic illness lifetime. 22q11.2DS may represent a reliable model for studying the neurobiological underpinnings of schizophrenia. The study of social inference abilities in a genetic condition at high risk for psychosis, like 22q11.2DS, may shed light on the relationships between neurocognitive processes and
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Partial Klüver–Bucy syndrome in a Paediatric patient: A post-neurosurgical and neuropsychological cases J. Neuropsychol. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-05-04 Alejandra Estefanía Hernández-Martínez, Carlos Alberto Serrano-Juárez, Karen Grisel Barrera-Medellín, Cecilia Inés Ramírez-Quiroga, Alma Griselda Ramírez-Reyes, Roberto Casarrubias Islas, Belén Prieto-Corona
A variety of cognitive, behavioural, and emotional impairments have been reported in the literature that are associated with the resection of the temporal cortex. Klüver–Bucy syndrome is one infrequently reported disorder in the paediatric population. This paper describes the neuropsychological findings of a female paediatric patient at 7 and 10 years of age with a diagnosis of partial Klüver–Bucy
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Disruption of the left anterior ventrolateral temporal cortex along with the inferior longitudinal fasciculus impairs the ability to retrieve famous face names: Evidence from three longitudinal case studies J. Neuropsychol. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Eléonor Burkhardt, Anne-Laure Lemaitre, Sam Ng, Sylvie Moritz-Gasser, Fabrice Hirsch, Hugues Duffau, Guillaume Herbet
The cortical distribution of the proper name (PN) retrieval network has been widely studied contrary to its connectional anatomy. Here, we report the case of three patients with a low-grade glioma damaging the mid-to-anterior part of the left temporal lobe. A longitudinal behavioural assessment showed that the surgery caused a long-lasting decline in PN retrieval performances in all patients. Furthermore
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A double-blind, sham-controlled, trial of home-administered rhythmic 10-Hz median nerve stimulation for the reduction of tics, and suppression of the urge-to-tic, in individuals with Tourette syndrome and chronic tic disorder J. Neuropsychol. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Barbara Morera Maiquez, Caitlin Smith, Katherine Dyke, Chia-Ping Chou, Belinda Kasbia, Ciara McCready, Hannah Wright, Jessica K. Jackson, Isabel Farr, Erika Badinger, Georgina M. Jackson, Stephen R. Jackson
Tourette syndrome (TS) and chronic tic disorder (CTD) are neurological disorders of childhood onset characterized by the occurrence of tics; repetitive, purposeless, movements or vocalizations of short duration which can occur many times throughout a day. Currently, effective treatment for tic disorders is an area of considerable unmet clinical need. We aimed to evaluate the efficacy of a home-administered
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Chronic pain relief after receiving affective touch: A single case report J. Neuropsychol. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-28 Larissa L. Meijer, Carla Ruis, Maarten J. van der Smagt, H. Chris Dijkerman
Affective touch is gentle slow stroking of the skin, which can reduce experimentally induced pain. Our participant, suffering from Parkinson's Disease and chronic pain, received 1 week of non-affective touch and 1 week of affective touch as part of a larger study. Interestingly, after 2 days of receiving affective touch, the participant started to feel less pain. After 7 days, the burning painful sensations
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Oxford cognitive screen: A critical review and independent psychometric evaluation J. Neuropsychol. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Donnchadh Murphy, Emily Cornford, Alice Higginson, Alyson Norman, Rebecca Long, Rupert Noad
The Oxford cognitive screen (OCS) is a stroke-specific cognitive screening assessment. Although the test developers have provided psychometric information for the assessment, the OCS has received minimal external scrutiny, with which to triangulate the underpinning psychometrics. The purpose of this study is to provide a critical review and independent validation of the OCS. This study analysed data
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Prospective memory in early and established psychosis: An Indian perspective J. Neuropsychol. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Pulijala Sulakshana Rao, Madhavi Rangaswamy, Jonathan Evans, Anirban Dutt
Individuals affected by psychosis often have deficits in several neurocognitive functions. Prospective memory (PM), the ability to remember to do things, is crucial for activities of daily living, social and occupational functioning, but very few studies have attempted to examine this domain of functioning in people with psychosis, particularly in India. A total of 71 patients with psychosis, (both
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Exploring mechanisms that affect retrograde memory for public events in amnestic mild cognitive impairment: A longitudinal update J. Neuropsychol. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-17 Maria Stefania De Simone, Marta Rodini, Massimo De Tollis, Carlo Caltagirone, Giovanni Augusto Carlesimo
Here, we examined mechanisms that affect retrograde memory in amnestic mild cognitive impairment (a-MCI) as a function of longitudinal clinical outcome. 8 a-MCI who converted to Alzheimer's dementia (AD) during the subsequent 3-year follow-up (converter a-MCI) and 10 a-MCI who remained clinically stable during the same period (stable a-MCI) were compared at the baseline evaluation (i.e., when they
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Full-field input generated from right visual field information for healthy participants reproduces performance simulating left unilateral spatial neglect in line bisection J. Neuropsychol. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-17 Keita Nukui, Sumio Ishiai
Patients with left unilateral spatial neglect (USN) typically place the subjective midpoint to the right of the objective centre when bisecting a horizontal line. This pathological phenomenon may be explained as a result of greater dependence on the right endpoint in the external reference frame (Koyama et al., Brain Cogn, 35, 1997, 271; McIntosh et al., Cogn Brain Res, 25, 2005, 833). Ishiai et al
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What helps patients to prepare for and cope during awake craniotomy? A prospective qualitative study J. Neuropsychol. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-10 Aleksandra Bala, Agnieszka Olejnik, Tomasz Dziedzic, Jolanta Piwowarska, Anna Podgórska, Andrzej Marchel
There is growing interest in awake craniotomies, but some clinicians are concerned that such procedures are poorly tolerated by patients. Therefore, we conducted a study to assess this phenomenon. In this prospective qualitative study, 68 patients who qualified for awake craniotomy were asked to complete the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS)—two days before the surgery and visual analogue
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How do valence and meaning interact? The contribution of semantic control J. Neuropsychol. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-03 Nicholas E. Souter, Ariyana Reddy, Jake Walker, Julián Marino Dávolos, Elizabeth Jefferies
The hub-and-spoke model of semantic cognition proposes that conceptual representations in a heteromodal ‘hub’ interact with and emerge from modality-specific features or ‘spokes’, including valence (whether a concept is positive or negative), along with visual and auditory features. As a result, valence congruency might facilitate our ability to link words conceptually. Semantic relatedness may similarly
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Proposal of a common terminology for the neuropsychological rehabilitation J. Neuropsychol. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Joana O. Pinto, Bruno Peixoto, Artemisa R. Dores, Fernando Barbosa
The literature on neuropsychological intervention (NI) uses a variety of terms to refer to equivalent constructs, making it difficult to compare intervention programmes and their outcomes. The purpose of this work is to propose a unified terminological framework for describing NI programmes. The terminological framework was developed based on a previous proposal for common terminology by Johnstone
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Memory functioning after hippocampal removal: Does side matter? J. Neuropsychol. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-01 Virginie Lambrecq, Irene Alonso, Dominique Hasboun, Vera Dinkelacker, Lila Davachi, Séverine Samson, Sophie Dupont
To address the memory functioning after medial temporal lobe (MTL) surgery for refractory epilepsy and relationships with the side of the hippocampal removal, 22 patients with pharmaco-resistant epilepsy who had undergone MTL resection (10 right/12 left) at the Salpêtrière Hospital were compared with 21 matched healthy controls. We designed a specific neuropsychological binding memory test that specifically
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Lifespan normative data (18–89 years) for Raven's Advanced Progressive Matrices Set I J. Neuropsychol. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-02-19 Patrick Murphy, Jennifer Foley, Joe Mole, Natasja Van Harskamp, Lisa Cipolotti
Raven's Advanced Progressive Matrices (APM) Set I is a validated and brief test of fluid intelligence, ideal for use in busy clinical settings. However, there is a dearth of normative data allowing an accurate interpretation of APM scores. To address this, we present normative data from across the adult lifespan (18–89 years) for the APM Set I. Data are presented in five age cohorts (total N = 352)
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One-year prediction of cognitive decline following cognitive-stimulation from real-world data J. Neuropsychol. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Borja Camino-Pontes, Francisco Gonzalez-Lopez, Gonzalo Santamaría-Gomez, Antonio Javier Sutil-Jimenez, Carolina Sastre-Barrios, Iñigo Fernandez de Pierola, Jesus M. Cortes
Clinical evidence based on real-world data (RWD) is accumulating exponentially providing larger sample sizes available, which demand novel methods to deal with the enhanced heterogeneity of the data. Here, we used RWD to assess the prediction of cognitive decline in a large heterogeneous sample of participants being enrolled with cognitive stimulation, a phenomenon that is of great interest to clinicians
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Lesion-symptom mapping of language impairments in people with brain tumours: The influence of linguistic stimuli J. Neuropsychol. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-01-18 Effrosyni Ntemou, Lena Rybka, Jocelyn Lubbers, Mehmet Salih Tuncer, Peter Vajkoczy, Adrià Rofes, Thomas Picht, Katharina Faust
People with tumours in specific brain sites might face difficulties in tasks with different linguistic material. Previous lesion-symptom mapping studies (VLSM) demonstrated that people with tumours in posterior temporal regions have more severe linguistic impairments. However, to the best of our knowledge, preoperative performance and lesion location on tasks with different linguistic stimuli have
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Individual differences in harm-related moral values are associated with functional integration of large-scale brain networks of emotional regulation J. Neuropsychol. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-01-15 Wei Li, Shuer Ye, Bing Zhu, Morris Hoffman, Jia Zhou, Qun Yang
Emotions affects moral judgements, and controlled cognitive processes regulate those emotional responses during moral decision making. However, the neurobiological basis of this interaction is unclear. We used a graph theory measurement called participation coefficient (‘PC’) to quantify the resting-state functional connectivity within and between four meta-analytic groupings (MAGs) associated with
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Mechanisms underlying corruption of working memory in Parkinson's disease J. Neuropsychol. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-01-15 Sean James Fallon, Chevonne van Rhee, Annika Kienast, Sanjay G. Manohar, Masud Husain
Working memory (WM) impairments are reported to occur in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD). However, the mechanisms are unclear. Here, we investigate several putative factors that might drive poor performance, by examining the precision of recall, the order in which items are recalled and whether memories are corrupted by random guessing (attentional lapses). We used two separate tasks that examined
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Virtual reality technology in neuropsychological testing: A systematic review J. Neuropsychol. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-01-09 Luca Pieri, Giorgia Tosi, Daniele Romano
Neuropsychological testing aims to measure individuals' cognitive abilities (e.g. memory, attention), analysing their performance on specific behavioural tasks. Most neuropsychological tests are administered in the so-called ‘paper-and-pencil’ modality or via computerised protocols. The adequacy of these procedures has been recently questioned, with more specific concerns about their ecological validity
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Cluster analysis reveals distinct patterns of saccade impairment and their relation to cognitive profiles in Parkinson's disease J. Neuropsychol. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2022-12-04 Josefine Waldthaler, Lena Stock, Charlotte Krüger-Zechlin, Zain Deeb, Lars Timmermann
Saccade performance has been reported to be altered in Parkinson's disease (PD), however, with a large variability between studies as both motor and cognitive impairment interfere with oculomotor control. The aim of this study was to identify different patterns in saccade alterations in PD using a data-driven approach and to explore their relationship with cognitive phenotypes. Sixty-one participants
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An evaluation of the convergent validity of a face-to-face and virtual neuropsychological assessment counter balanced J. Neuropsychol. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2022-11-28 Carl R. Krynicki, David Hacker, Christopher A. Jones
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for further research evaluating the validity of conducting a battery of neuropsychological assessments virtually compared with face-to-face administration. Previous research has suggested that some neuropsychological assessments yield valid results when administered virtually, however, much of the previous research focused on older adults. To determine
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Episodic memory effects of gamma frequency precuneus transcranial magnetic stimulation in Alzheimer's disease: A randomized multiple baseline study J. Neuropsychol. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2022-11-09 Artemis Traikapi, Ioanna Kalli, Andrea Kyriakou, Elena Stylianou, Rafaella Tereza Symeou, Akrivi Kardama, Yiolanda Panayiota Christou, Phivos Phylactou, Nikos Konstantinou
Episodic memory decline is the prominent neuropsychological feature of typical Alzheimer's Disease (AD), for which current treatments have a limited clinical response. Recently, gamma entrainment therapy has been used as a non-invasive treatment in AD, providing evidence that it may have the potential to alleviate brain pathology and improve cognitive function in AD patients. At the same time, the