Disentangling effects of remote mild traumatic brain injury characteristics and posttraumatic stress on processing speed and executive function in veterans

by Clinical Neuropsychologist Online | Friday, January 12, 2024 | Neuropsychology (general)

Abstract 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...

The guaranteed euros: Probabilistic discounting in behavioural‐variant frontotemporal dementia

by Clinical Neuropsychologist Online | Saturday, December 23, 2023 | Neuropsychology (general)

Abstract 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...

Spatial attention modulation of the brain network involved in mental time travel.

by Clinical Neuropsychologist Online | Thursday, December 21, 2023 | Neuropsychology (general)

Neuropsychology, Vol 38(3), Mar 2024, 268-280; doi:10.1037/neu0000940Objectives: The ability to mental time travel (MTT) consists in moving along a cognitive and spatially oriented representation of time, that is, an ideal mental time line, where past and future...

The relationship between social cognitive processes and behavior changes in people with amnestic mild cognitive impairment or dementia using the Edinburgh Social Cognition Test (ESCoT).

by Clinical Neuropsychologist Online | Thursday, December 14, 2023 | Neuropsychology (general)

Neuropsychology, Vol 38(3), Mar 2024, 223-238; doi:10.1037/neu0000929Objective: People with amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI) or dementia often exhibit a decline in their social abilities, but few tests of social cognition exist that are suitable for clinical...

Differential contribution of language and executive functioning to verbal fluency performance in glioma patients

by Clinical Neuropsychologist Online | Wednesday, December 13, 2023 | Neuropsychology (general)

Abstract Glioma patients often suffer from deficits in language and executive functioning. Performance in verbal fluency (generating words within one minute according to a semantic category–category fluency, or given letter–letter fluency) is typically impaired in...

Verb generation for presurgical mapping: Gaining specificity

by Clinical Neuropsychologist Online | Friday, December 8, 2023 | Neuropsychology (general)

Abstract 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...