148| Perioperative Cognitive Decline in Older Adults – A Conversation With Dr. Cate Price

by Clinical Neuropsychologist | Thursday, August 1, 2024 | Neuro Podcasts

This episode is a conversation with Dr. Catherine Price about perioperative cognitive decline (including delirium), particularly in older adults. Various topics are covered, including the frequency of cognitive problems post-surgery, predisposing and precipitating...

Fruit fly vision, sensing sarcasm, and social connection

by Clinical Neuropsychologist | Wednesday, July 17, 2024 | Neuro Podcasts

In the latest Naked Neuroscience, James Tytko brings you two new pieces of research involving the use of AI. First, how machine learning has been deployed to map out the visual system of a fruit fly in all its complexity, and how feeding a neural network a diet of...

147| Neuropsych Bite: Redefining Traumatic Brain Injury and Concussion – A Conversation With Dr. Noah Silverberg

by Clinical Neuropsychologist | Monday, July 15, 2024 | Neuro Podcasts

Today we give you another conversation with Dr. Noah Silverberg.  This brief episode is on terminology related to the diagnosis of traumatic brain injury and concussion, based on guidance from the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine. Show notes are available...

A Psychometric Study of Instruments Assessing Catastrophizing and Fear Avoidance Behaviors in Mild Traumatic Brain Injury

by Clinical Neuropsychologist | Thursday, July 11, 2024 | Neuro Podcasts

In this episode, Dr. Scott Sperling and student leader, Dr. Elaine Schultz, discuss the article Psychometric properties of two instruments assessing catastrophizing and fear-avoidance behavior in mild traumatic brain injury with two of the paper’s authors, Skye...

146| Persistent Symptoms After Concussion – A Conversation with Dr. Noah Silverberg

by Clinical Neuropsychologist | Monday, July 1, 2024 | Neuro Podcasts

This episode is a conversation with Dr. Noah Silverberg about persisting symptoms following concussion. The discussion covers prevalence of persistent postconcussive symptoms, risk factors for persisting symptoms, the importance of mental health symptoms and...

Investigating Language Switching and Speaking a Nondominant Language as Markers of Alzheimer’s Risk in Spanish-English Bilinguals

by Clinical Neuropsychologist | Saturday, June 22, 2024 | Neuro Podcasts

In this episode Dr. Scott Sperling and student leader, Dr. Kritika Nayar, discuss the paper  Language Switching and Speaking a Non-Dominant Language Challenge Executive Control: Preliminary Data for Novel Behavioral Markers of Alzheimer’s Risk in Spanish-English...