{"title":"Diagnostic utility of the Thurstone Word Fluency Test in neuropsychological evaluations.","authors":"M G Pendleton, R K Heaton, R A Lehman, D Hulihan","doi":"10.1080/01688638208401139","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01688638208401139","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Previous research has found that verbal associative fluency tasks are sensitive to the presence of cerebral lesions and more sensitive to frontal lobe and left hemisphere lesions than to other focal lesions. The present study investigated the diagnostic utility of the Thurstone Word Fluency Test (TWFT), a test of written verbal fluency, in detecting and localizing cerebral lesions. Using results from 203 brain-damaged and 134 normal subjects, we found that TWFT performance is affected by cerebral damage generally. At the same time, it is more impaired by frontal than by nonfrontal, by left than by right hemisphere, and by left frontal than by right frontal lesions. This test does not discriminate focal frontal from diffuse lesions. Stepwise discriminant function analyses indicated that the TWFT adds to the Halstead-Reitan Battery in discriminating focal frontal from nonfrontal lesions, but not in discriminating left hemisphere from right hemisphere lesions. Only markedly impaired TWFT performances had lateralizing significance.</p>","PeriodicalId":79225,"journal":{"name":"Journal of clinical neuropsychology","volume":"4 4","pages":"307-17"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1982-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01688638208401139","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18191388","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Neuropsychological findings in myotonic dystrophy.","authors":"J B Woodward, R K Heaton, D B Simon, S P Ringel","doi":"10.1080/01688638208401141","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01688638208401141","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Although the literature contains several references to clinically apparent cognitive deficits in patients with myotonic dystrophy (MYD), efforts to support these observations with formal testing have been lacking. The current study compared 17 MYD patients with 25 normal controls on an expanded Halstead-Reitan Battery. The MYD group scored worse than the controls on nearly every neuropsychological measure. Significant neuropsychological impairment was present even when tests of motor skills were excluded. There was no relationship between general neuropsychological impairment and degree of weakness, myotonia, or muscle atrophy in the MYD patients. These findings suggest that cognitive impairment can be an important and relatively independent component of the disability in MYD, which should be considered in the clinical evaluation and counselling of persons with this disease.</p>","PeriodicalId":79225,"journal":{"name":"Journal of clinical neuropsychology","volume":"4 4","pages":"335-42"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1982-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01688638208401141","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18191389","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Neuropsychological characteristics of empirically derived subgroups of learning disabled readers.","authors":"R Lyon, N Stewart, D Freedman","doi":"10.1080/01688638208401142","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01688638208401142","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract A neuropsychological battery comprised of 10 linguistic and visual perceptual tests, chosen because of their use in previous research, was administered to 75 learning disabled readers (LDR) and 42 normal readers (NR) matched for age and IQ. Standard scores, derived from a comparison of each LDR child's score with the NR group's performance on each test, were cluster analyzed to identify subgroups within the LDR group. Five subgroups were identified. Multivariate analysis of variance and discriminant analysis indicated that all LDR subgroups were significantly different from one another with respect to subgroup members' performance on the set of neuropsychological variables. In addition, some significant differences were found among the five subgroups on measures of oral reading, word-attack skills, and reading comprehension.","PeriodicalId":79225,"journal":{"name":"Journal of clinical neuropsychology","volume":"4 4","pages":"343-65"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1982-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01688638208401142","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18191390","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Consistency of ear advantage in two verbal dichotic tasks.","authors":"P Eling","doi":"10.1080/01688638208401143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01688638208401143","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In two experiments, ear advantage was studied for two verbal dichotic tasks, rhyme and category monitoring. For the two tasks, the same tapes were used; only the instructions, specifying the class of stimuli to which the subjects had to respond, were different. Consistency of ear advantage within subjects was low, which is contrary to prevailing assumptions.","PeriodicalId":79225,"journal":{"name":"Journal of clinical neuropsychology","volume":"4 4","pages":"367-71"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1982-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01688638208401143","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18191391","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effect of lateralized cerebral damage upon contralateral and ipsilateral sensorimotor performances.","authors":"J Hom, R M Reitan","doi":"10.1080/01688638208401133","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01688638208401133","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Three groups of 50 adult patients with either lateralized vascular, neoplastic, or traumatic cerebral lesions were compared with respect to their contralateral and ipsilateral sensorimotor functioning. The present study investigated the extent of sensorimotor deficits associated with different types of naturally-occurring damage to the right and left hemispheres. Sensorimotor abilities were assessed using tests from the Halstead-Reitan Neuropsychological Test Battery. Intergroup comparisons showed a differential pattern of sensorimotor impairment in which the cerebrovascular group was most impaired, followed by the neoplastic group, with the trauma group demonstrating the least impairment. Interhemispheric comparisons among the lesion groups consistently demonstrated right cerebral hemisphere predominance for contralateral and ipsilateral sensorimotor functions. The findings indicate clearly that the sensorimotor functions of the two cerebral hemispheres are not merely mirror images of each other. Apparently, the functional organization of the human brain is such that the right hemisphere is predominant for both contralateral and ipsilateral sensorimotor functioning. Results are discussed in terms of these theoretical questions and in terms of several methodological considerations necessary for the appropriate study of the functional organization of sensorimotor processes.</p>","PeriodicalId":79225,"journal":{"name":"Journal of clinical neuropsychology","volume":"4 3","pages":"249-68"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1982-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01688638208401133","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18156792","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Human consciousness and sleep/waking rhythms: a review and some neuropsychological considerations.","authors":"R Broughton","doi":"10.1080/01688638208401130","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01688638208401130","url":null,"abstract":"The relevance of sleep/waking rhythms to issues of human consciousness is reviewed from data in the literature and from personal studies. Consciousness is often considered to be markedly attenuated or absent in sleep. There is, however, much evidence for a rich subjective experience during sleep, much of which is not recalled later. This implies that William James' \"stream of consciousness' persists continuously throughout sleep as well as wakefulness, but that problems of memory recall interfere with its being reported as such. Sleeping subjects show selective awareness of external stimuli, with significant stimuli generally leading to awakening and relatively nonsignificant stimuli, at least at times, being incorporated into the ongoing mental activity of REM or NREM sleep. Mentation throughout sleep is characterized by a high degree of autonomy and little willful control. Creative insight and problem solving of a very high order may occur in sleep and involve either dreaming or thought-like mentation. Parameters of waking consciousness show possibly sleep-related rhythmic fluctuations at both circadian (24 hr sleep/waking) and ultradian (90-120) min, NREM/REM sleep) rates. Moreover, waking consciousness is markedly influenced by the quality of temporal stability of preceding sleep. A substantial number of so-called \"altered states of consciousness\" is found to involve primarily or exclusively dysfunction of sleep/waking mechanisms. Cerebral lesions can produce selective impairment of aspects of sleep mentation. It is concluded that further analysis of subjective awareness in sleep or in partial sleep states is very relevant and indeed vital to a more comprehensive understanding of human consciousness.","PeriodicalId":79225,"journal":{"name":"Journal of clinical neuropsychology","volume":"4 3","pages":"193-218"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1982-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01688638208401130","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18157927","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The effect of semantic relations on the memory deficit associated with Parkinson's disease.","authors":"J R Tweedy, K G Langer, F H McDowell","doi":"10.1080/01688638208401132","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01688638208401132","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Analysis of a series of verbal memory experiments reveals a systematic performance deficit in subjects with Parkinson's disease, relative to matched normal and right-hemisphere stroke controls, in both recall and recognition tasks. Parkinson patients benefit less from semantic recall cues; they find semantically mediated synonym detections particularly difficult; and they show reduced benefits from the introduction of semantically novel material in a recall task. Their recall is as well organized semantically as that of normal controls, but reduced in amount. Recognition deficits arise principally from increases in false positive responses.</p>","PeriodicalId":79225,"journal":{"name":"Journal of clinical neuropsychology","volume":"4 3","pages":"235-47"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1982-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01688638208401132","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17279620","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Learning disabilities theory and soviet psychology: a comparison of straw men and red herrings.","authors":"D G Doehring","doi":"10.1080/01688638208401135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01688638208401135","url":null,"abstract":"(1982). Learning disabilities theory and soviet psychology: A comparison of straw men and red herrings. Journal of Clinical Neuropsychology: Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 285-289.","PeriodicalId":79225,"journal":{"name":"Journal of clinical neuropsychology","volume":"4 3","pages":"285-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1982-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01688638208401135","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18156794","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
E Goldberg, L J Gerstman, S Mattis, J E Hughes, C A Sirio, R M Bilder
{"title":"Selective effects of cholinergic treatment on verbal memory in posttraumatic amnesia.","authors":"E Goldberg, L J Gerstman, S Mattis, J E Hughes, C A Sirio, R M Bilder","doi":"10.1080/01688638208401131","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01688638208401131","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The combined effects or orally administered physostigmine and lecithin were assessed in a double-blind study of a single patient with posttraumatic amnesia. Treatment improved verbal recall but not verbal recognition, visual memory, or conceptual reasoning. Both storage and retrieval of words in verbal memory were facilitated. Greater improvement in learning of longer or semantically homogeneous word lists than shorter or semantically mixed lists may indicate that treatment reduced the effects of interstimulus interference. Greater divergence of recognition response biases for semantically homogeneous vs. mixed lists was observed under treatment, reflecting some enhancement of semantic appreciation. Absence of a treatment effect on visual nonverbal memory may be due in part to lateralization of the mesencephalic lesion to the left in this patient. Lack of improvement of encoding capacity, d', or conceptual reasoning may reflect a greater dependence of basal forebrain structures on catecholaminergic than cholinergic mechanisms.</p>","PeriodicalId":79225,"journal":{"name":"Journal of clinical neuropsychology","volume":"4 3","pages":"219-34"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1982-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01688638208401131","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18156791","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Learning disabilities theory and Soviet psychology: a comparison of basic assumptions.","authors":"G S Coles","doi":"10.1080/01688638208401134","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01688638208401134","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Critics both within and outside the Learning Disabilities (LD) field have pointed to the weaknesses of LD theory. Beginning with the premise that a significant problem of LD theory has been its failure to explore fully its fundamental assumptions, this paper examines a number of these assumptions about individual and social development, cognition, and learning. These assumptions are compared with a contrasting body of premises found in Soviet psychology, particularly in the works of Vygotsky, Leontiev, and Luria. An examination of the basic assumptions of LD theory and Soviet psychology shows that a major difference lies in their respective nondialectical and dialectical interpretation of the relationship of social factors and cognition, learning, and neurological development.</p>","PeriodicalId":79225,"journal":{"name":"Journal of clinical neuropsychology","volume":"4 3","pages":"269-83"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1982-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01688638208401134","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18156793","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}