Building better memories: The dynamic interplay of social information and self-referencing in associative memory performance with age.

by Clinical Neuropsychologist | Monday, March 10, 2025 | Neuropsychology (general)

Neuropsychology, Vol 39(3), Mar 2025, 275-287; doi:10.1037/neu0000996Objective: Recent research has highlighted the potential of social information to mitigate age-related associative memory deficits, yet the influence of the self-reference effect remains a...

Examining the roles of working memory and trait anxiety on math achievement in children with ADHD.

by Clinical Neuropsychologist | Monday, March 10, 2025 | Neuropsychology (general)

Neuropsychology, Vol 39(3), Mar 2025, 259-274; doi:10.1037/neu0000994Objective: Children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) demonstrate deficits across academic domains including underachievement in math. Proposed models of math skill development...

Growth-associated protein 43 is associated with faster functional decline among amyloid-positive individuals with objectively defined subtle cognitive decline and mild cognitive impairment.

by Clinical Neuropsychologist | Monday, March 10, 2025 | Neuropsychology (general)

Neuropsychology, Vol 39(3), Mar 2025, 248-258; doi:10.1037/neu0000981Objective: Objectively defined subtle cognitive decline (Obj-SCD) is an emerging classification that may identify individuals at risk for future decline and progression to Alzheimer’s disease prior...

Slowly learned but not forgotten: New learning in a case of childhood‐acquired amnesia

by Clinical Neuropsychologist | Friday, March 7, 2025 | Neuropsychology (general)

Abstract This case report presents new semantic learning and long-term retention data collected over a 5-year period from an amnesic adolescent boy, CJ. Compared to his younger sister, a novel abbreviation-learning task captured CJ’s slower semantic acquisition...

New onset abnormal eating behaviour following amygdalohippocampal laser ablation for mesial temporal epilepsy

by Clinical Neuropsychologist | Wednesday, February 26, 2025 | Neuropsychology (general)

Abstract We present a patient with left mesial temporal medically refractory epilepsy who developed new onset abnormal eating behaviour following surgical ablation of the left hippocampus and amygdala. The patient underwent a second ablation due to seizure recurrence...

Digit span and Bisyllabic non‐word span: Italian norms

by Clinical Neuropsychologist | Wednesday, February 26, 2025 | Neuropsychology (general)

Abstract We standardized a new version of the Digit span test and the first version of the Bisyllabic non-word span test, both measuring the phonological loop, in an Italian sample of neurologically healthy adults (n = 225). All stimuli were administered to the...