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Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery (CANTAB): a factor analytic study of a large sample of normal elderly volunteers.
TLDR
The CANTAB battery, which is based on tests used to identify the neural substrates of learning and memory in non-human primates, has now been extensively used in the assessment of various forms of dementia and also validated on patients with neurosurgical lesions of the frontal and temporal lobes.
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A componential analysis of task-switching deficits associated with lesions of left and right frontal cortex.
TLDR
This study localizes two components of the complex task-switching process (inhibition of task-sets and/or responses and top-down control oftask-set) to the right IFG/POp and the left MFG respectively.
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The Effects of Nicotine on Attention, Information Processing, and Short-Term Memory in Patients with Dementia of the Alzheimer Type
Nicotine in patients with dementia of the Alzheimer type (DAT) producted a significant and marked improvement in discriminative sensitivity and reaction times on a computerised test of attention and…
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Social emotion recognition, social functioning, and attempted suicide in late-life depression.
TLDR
Suicide attempts in depressed elders were associated with poor social problem solving, constricted social networks, and disruptive interpersonal relationships.
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Decision making deficits in patients with first-episode and chronic schizophrenia
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Expert face processing requires visual input to the right hemisphere during infancy
CAN FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA AND ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE BE DIFFERENTIATED USING A BRIEF BATTERY OF TESTS?
TLDR
To compare the performance of patients with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and Alzheimer's disease (AD) on a range of simple neuropsychological tests, a large number of patients receive treatment for FFTD and AD.
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Facilitating the ethical use of health data for the benefit of society: electronic health records, consent and the duty of easy rescue
TLDR
It is argued that the duty of easy rescue—the principle that persons should benefit others when this can be done at no or minimal risk to themselves—grounds the removal of consent requirements for minimally risky records-based research.
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Serotonin transporter polymorphisms (SLC6A4 insertion/deletion and rs25531) do not affect the availability of 5-HTT to [11C] DASB binding in the living human brain
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A Neural Systems Approach to the Cognitive Psychology of Ageing Using the CANTAB Battery
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