Daniel Redero, Esther Lázaro, Natalia Vázquez, Cristina Soria
{"title":"Neuropsychological rehabilitation in patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis: a systematic review.","authors":"Daniel Redero, Esther Lázaro, Natalia Vázquez, Cristina Soria","doi":"10.1080/23279095.2023.2248642","DOIUrl":"10.1080/23279095.2023.2248642","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><b>Introduction:</b> Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune, chronic, inflammatory and demyelinating disease that affects the Central Nervous System (CNS). It is the most common disabling neurological disease in young patients not caused by traumatic shock. Depending on how symptoms appear and how often they occur, there are different subtypes of MS. One of them is the relapsing-remitting phenotype (R-R), which the symptoms appear in the form of isolated outbreaks which, little by little, are causing the increase of the disease and its sequelae. MS encompasses a wide variety of symptoms, including possible cognitive impairment. In the literature there is no clear methodology and a defined and structured consensus to carry out neuropsychological rehabilitation processes in this group.<b>Aim:</b> This study aims to review and synthesize the available scientific evidence about the neuropsychological intervention on cognitive impairment of people with multiple sclerosis, relapsing-remitting subtype.<b>Methods:</b> Keywords for database search (Pubmed and Wos) were established, as well as inclusion and exclusion criteria. Then, the articles were selected according to inclusion and exclusion criteria; methodological quality criteria were applied. Articles published in the last 10 years were included.<b>Results:</b> Fifteen articles that met the established criteria were selected. Most of these studies identify as effective their cognitive rehabilitation programs, some of them showed changes in neural structures after rehabilitation.<b>Discussion:</b> It seems that cognitive rehabilitation is effective in influencing cognitive deterioration in R-R MS. This highlights the importance of neuropsychological evaluation and intervention from the early stages of the disease.</p>","PeriodicalId":51308,"journal":{"name":"Applied Neuropsychology-Adult","volume":" ","pages":"1496-1504"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10111713","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Aaron J Kivisto, Alexis Guynn, Hallie Jenson, Emma Knowles, Pragati Sai Magham, Courtney Miner, Keana Scelsi, Megan Porter Staats
{"title":"Intelligence is a poor predictor of nonrestorability of competence to stand trial.","authors":"Aaron J Kivisto, Alexis Guynn, Hallie Jenson, Emma Knowles, Pragati Sai Magham, Courtney Miner, Keana Scelsi, Megan Porter Staats","doi":"10.1080/23279095.2023.2253949","DOIUrl":"10.1080/23279095.2023.2253949","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Criminal defendants found incompetent to stand trial (IST) may only be committed for competency restoration if their restoration success is considered likely and when this aim can be met within a \"reasonable\" period of time. In this study, we evaluated the predictive validity and test accuracy of standardized intelligence testing on the classification of nonrestorability in a sample of 293 male patients adjudicated IST and committed for inpatient restoration. At 90 days, 17.0% of cases with FSIQ scores within one standard deviation of the mean were unrestored, and nonrestoration rates increased with each additional FSIQ standard deviation decrement to 29.5%, 38.8%, and 59.5%. Time-to-event analyses found that whereas half of patients with FSIQ scores of 56 or higher would be predicted to be restored within 64 days, the median restoration timeline was 145 days for patients with FSIQ scores of 55 or below. Positive predictive values associated with the range of possible FSIQ scores were uniformly low at modeled nonrestoration prevalence rates of 5%, 15%, and 25<b>%</b>, rarely exceeding chance levels. We conclude that although FSIQ scores are relevant to predictions of nonrestorability, particularly when scores are at least three standard deviations below average, the accuracy of individual FSIQ-based predictions of nonrestorability are limited.</p>","PeriodicalId":51308,"journal":{"name":"Applied Neuropsychology-Adult","volume":" ","pages":"1244-1253"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10170221","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A review of the reliability of remote neuropsychological assessment.","authors":"Tyler Brown, Konstantine K Zakzanis","doi":"10.1080/23279095.2023.2279208","DOIUrl":"10.1080/23279095.2023.2279208","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The provision of clinical neuropsychological services has predominately been undertaken by way of standardized administration in a face-to-face setting. Interpretation of psychometric findings in this context is dependent on the use of normative comparison. When the standardization in which such psychometric measures are employed deviates from how they were employed in the context of the development of its associated norms, one is left to question the reliability and hence, validity of any such findings and in turn, diagnostic decision making. In light of the current COVID-19 pandemic and resultant social distancing direction, face-to-face neuropsychological assessment has been challenging to undertake. As such, remote (i.e., virtual) neuropsychological assessment has become an obvious solution. Here, and before the results from remote neuropsychological assessment can be said to stand on firm scientific grounds, it is paramount to ensure that results garnered remotely are reliable and valid. To this end, we undertook a review of the literature and present an overview of the landscape. To date, the literature shows evidence for the reliability of remote administration and the clinical implications are paramount. When and where needed, neuropsychologists, psychometric technicians and examinees may no longer need to be in the same physical space to undergo an assessment. These findings are most relevant given the physical distancing practices because of COVID-19. And whilst remote assessment should never supplant face-to-face neuropsychological assessments, it does serve as a valid alternative when necessary.</p>","PeriodicalId":51308,"journal":{"name":"Applied Neuropsychology-Adult","volume":" ","pages":"1536-1542"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138435384","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The transition from Mild Cognitive Impairment of the Amnestic Type to early dementia: A phenomenological and neuropsychological case analysis.","authors":"George P Prigatano, Sydney Russell","doi":"10.1080/23279095.2023.2262068","DOIUrl":"10.1080/23279095.2023.2262068","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The scientific literature on neuropsychological correlates of Mild Cognitive Impairment of the Amnestic Type (MCI-A) often reports large group findings and employs multivariate statistics to describe domains of cognitive impairment associated with the transition of MCI-A to early dementia, typically of the Alzheimer's Type (AD). Individual patients may vary, however, in terms of specific changes in their neuropsychological test performance as they transition from MCI-A to probable AD. The subjective experiences of individuals during this time of transition can also vary but rarely are reported. Tracking both the patient's subjective experiences and their performance on neuropsychological measures provides a more complete picture of the patient's clinical situation. These combined sets of information help the clinical neuropsychologist provide a more individualized and personally relevant service. We present a phenomenological and neuropsychological case analysis of a 67-year-old woman who transitioned from MCI-A to probable early AD in an attempt to illustrate how such a combined analysis is helpful in their psychological care.</p>","PeriodicalId":51308,"journal":{"name":"Applied Neuropsychology-Adult","volume":" ","pages":"1543-1550"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41139296","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shane S Bush, Aparna Dutt, Alberto Luis Fernández, Emilia Łojek, Skye McDonald, Leigh Schrieff-Brown
{"title":"Ethical issues in clinical neuropsychology: International diversity perspectives.","authors":"Shane S Bush, Aparna Dutt, Alberto Luis Fernández, Emilia Łojek, Skye McDonald, Leigh Schrieff-Brown","doi":"10.1080/23279095.2023.2278153","DOIUrl":"10.1080/23279095.2023.2278153","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Much of the information about the ethical practice of clinical neuropsychology has focused on North America. Additionally, of the scholarly publications on the intersection of ethical issues and cultural diversity practices in neuropsychology, most have focused on North America. The extent to which practitioners in other parts of the world are aware of, and find useful, such information is largely unknown. Similarly, the extent to which North American neuropsychologists are familiar with ethical issues and challenges encountered around the world is unknown. The purpose of this article is to advance the discussion of ethical issues in clinical neuropsychology from an international diversity perspective.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>The article presents, via a panel interview format, the thoughts and experiences of a small sample of neuropsychologists who represent all continents except North America (and Antarctica).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Neuropsychologists across continents share an ethical commitment to providing services that are beneficial, and not harmful, to the recipients of the services. Professional competence is at the heart of such services.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Through continued and expanded dialogue about ethical issues with neuropsychology colleagues around the world, the potential exists for improvement in the provision of effective and compassionate care in our own towns.</p>","PeriodicalId":51308,"journal":{"name":"Applied Neuropsychology-Adult","volume":" ","pages":"1377-1393"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136400256","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Everyday memory in patients with depression: An explorative pilot study using an ecological assessment paradigm.","authors":"Lorenz B Dehn, Martin Driessen, Thomas Beblo","doi":"10.1080/23279095.2023.2256917","DOIUrl":"10.1080/23279095.2023.2256917","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>People with major depressive disorder (MDD) often experience significant memory problems in their daily lives, which, however, frequently do not correspond to standardized memory test (SMT) results. The present pilot study aimed to examine the everyday memory performance of people with MDD by means of an ecological assessment paradigm (EAP).</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Participants were unexpectedly called one week after their neuropsychological test assessment and asked about their memories of specific details of the former test situation. Associations of this EAP with SMT, subjective everyday memory problems, and symptom coping were exploratively analyzed.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The study involved 22 MDD inpatients (<i>M</i> = 42.5 years, 64% female) and 22 comparable healthy control persons. MDD patients showed a significantly reduced performance in the EAP as well as in the SMT and they reported more memory problems in their daily lives. However, the EAP was not related to SMT results assessed a week before. Moreover, only the EAP was significantly associated with subjective daily memory problems and (distraction) coping style in the MDD group.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The EAP appears to better reflect the everyday memory problems of persons with depression than standardized test procedures. However, the findings need to be validated by further research with larger samples.</p>","PeriodicalId":51308,"journal":{"name":"Applied Neuropsychology-Adult","volume":" ","pages":"1268-1272"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10233675","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Detection of noncredible cognitive performance with Wechsler Memory Scale-IV measures in mild traumatic brain injury litigants.","authors":"George K Henry","doi":"10.1080/23279095.2023.2287139","DOIUrl":"10.1080/23279095.2023.2287139","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>To investigate the operating characteristics of selective measures on the Wechsler Memory Scale-IV (WMS-IV) to predict noncredible neurocognitive dysfunction in a sample of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) litigants.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Participants included 110 adults who underwent a comprehensive neuropsychological examination. Criterion groups were formed based upon their performance on stand-alone measures of cognitive performance validity testing (PVT).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Participants failing two stand-alone PVTs exhibited significantly lower scores across all WMS-IV dependent variables of interest compared to participants who passed both PVTs. Participants who failed one PVT were excluded. Bivariate logistic regression revealed that all six dependent variables were significant predictors of PVT status. The best prediction model consisted of three WMS-IV variables including Logical Memory Delayed Recall (LM2), Logical Memory Recognition (LMR), and Visual Reproduction Recognition (VRR). This model demonstrated an accuracy of 90.2%, 0.89 sensitivity, 0.92 specificity, and a Receiver Operating Curve (ROC) of 0.957.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The current empirically-derived cutscores and logit equation for the WMS-IV may be an additional consideration in analyzing database validity and noncredible performance in mTBI personal injury litigants ages 18-69.</p>","PeriodicalId":51308,"journal":{"name":"Applied Neuropsychology-Adult","volume":" ","pages":"1454-1461"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138471156","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anna S Ord, Sarah L Martindale, Elizabeth R Jenks, Jared A Rowland
{"title":"Subjective cognitive complaints and objective cognitive functioning in combat veterans: Effects of PTSD and deployment mild TBI.","authors":"Anna S Ord, Sarah L Martindale, Elizabeth R Jenks, Jared A Rowland","doi":"10.1080/23279095.2023.2280807","DOIUrl":"10.1080/23279095.2023.2280807","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>(1) Examine the relationship between subjective cognitive complaints and objective cognitive functioning in combat veterans; and (2) evaluate conditional effects of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and deployment-related mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) within that relationship.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Combat veterans (<i>N</i> = 225, 86.22% male) completed a lifetime TBI interview, a structured interview assessing PTSD symptoms, a neuropsychological assessment battery, and a self-report measure of cognitive symptoms.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>All correlations between subjective cognitive complaints and objective cognitive measures were not statistically significant. Hierarchical linear regression indicated that cognitive performance was not significantly related to cognitive complaints, but both PTSD diagnosis and history of deployment mild TBI explained a significant amount of unique variance in self-reported cognitive symptoms. Interactions between the studied variables were not significant.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>PTSD and history of deployment mild TBI were uniquely related to cognitive complaints, but cognitive test performance was not. No confounding effects of PTSD or deployment mild TBI were observed in the relationship between cognitive performance and cognitive complaints. This provides support that symptom distress may be a better explanatory factor for perception of lower cognitive functioning than actual cognitive performance.</p>","PeriodicalId":51308,"journal":{"name":"Applied Neuropsychology-Adult","volume":" ","pages":"1400-1406"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138292321","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Åsa Hammar, Marit Therese Schmid, Linn Petersdotter, Olga Therese Ousdal, Anne Marita Milde
{"title":"Inhibitory control as possible risk and/or resilience factor for the development of trauma related symptoms-a study of the Utøya terror attack survivors.","authors":"Åsa Hammar, Marit Therese Schmid, Linn Petersdotter, Olga Therese Ousdal, Anne Marita Milde","doi":"10.1080/23279095.2023.2253553","DOIUrl":"10.1080/23279095.2023.2253553","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>PTSD symptomatology is known to be associated with executive dysfunction. Inhibitory control is a core component of executive functioning, and inhibitory skills are essential both for adequate functioning in everyday life and important in situations following trauma. The aim of the present study was to examine the relationship between trauma exposure, inhibitory control and PTSD symptomatology in adolescent survivors of the terror attack at Utøya, Norway on the 22nd of July, 2011. In this cross-sectional case-control study, 20 trauma exposed adolescents and 20 healthy controls matched in age and gender were compared on a neuropsychological test of cognitive inhibition (Color-Word Interference Test) and a self-report measure of inhibition ability (BRIEF-A). Our analyses revealed that the trauma exposed group differed significantly on the self-reported measure of inhibitory control compared to the control group, but there were no differences between groups on the objective measures of cognitive inhibition. Follow-up analyses with subgroups in the trauma exposed group based on PTSD symptomatology (PTSD + and PTSD-) and the control group revealed that the PTSD- group showed significantly better results than both the PTSD + and the control group on the measures of inhibitory control. Moreover, the follow-up analyses showed that the PTSD + group showed significantly poorer results from the other two groups on the measures of inhibitory control and self-reported inhibition. We conclude that impaired inhibitory control, measured both objectively and by self-reported questionnaire, is related to PTSD symptomatology. Findings suggest that inhibitory dysfunctions may be a vulnerability factor for the development of PTSD symptomatology in trauma exposed adolescents, and thus it seems that the ability to exhibit inhibitory control could be a possible resilience factor to prevent the development of PTSD symptoms.</p>","PeriodicalId":51308,"journal":{"name":"Applied Neuropsychology-Adult","volume":" ","pages":"1231-1243"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10225858","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}