{"title":"Learning disabilities and Soviet psychology: are there basic assumptions?","authors":"E Goldberg","doi":"10.1080/01688638208401136","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01688638208401136","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79225,"journal":{"name":"Journal of clinical neuropsychology","volume":"4 3","pages":"291-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1982-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01688638208401136","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18156795","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":"Developmental neuropsychiatry: concepts, issues and prospects.","authors":"M Rutter","doi":"10.1080/01688638208401121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01688638208401121","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The empirical findings on the cognitive and behavioral sequelae of head injury in childhood are integrated with others in the literature in order to consider some of the outstanding issues and dilemmas that remain in the field of developmental neuropsychiatry. Particular attention is paid to the apparent nonspecificity of the cognitive sequelae of localized brain lesions in childhood, possible specificities in brain-behavior relationships, the probable importance of age effects in altering the impact of brain lesions, and the threshold above which brain injury may have persistent psychological sequelae.</p>","PeriodicalId":79225,"journal":{"name":"Journal of clinical neuropsychology","volume":" ","pages":"91-115"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1982-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01688638208401121","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40524647","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}
D Crockett, C Clark, T Labreche, D Lacoste, H Klonoff
{"title":"Shortening the Speech Sounds Perception Test.","authors":"D Crockett, C Clark, T Labreche, D Lacoste, H Klonoff","doi":"10.1080/01688638208401126","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01688638208401126","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Statistical means of shortening the Speech Sounds Perception Test were examined. Stepwise multiple regression analyses indicated that a 30-item version correlated quite highly with the 60-item version. Group means for representative clinical groups were presented, but no strong differences emerged using either version. Inclusion of length of stay and number of previous admissions as covariates did little to enhance the predictive validity of either form. Finally, the correlation of the 30-item test with demographic variables showed that age correlated most, followed by occupational status. these results were interpreted as indicating that the 30-item version could be used while maintaining the clinical utility of this test.</p>","PeriodicalId":79225,"journal":{"name":"Journal of clinical neuropsychology","volume":" ","pages":"167-71"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1982-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01688638208401126","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40524646","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}
R C Josiassen, L Curry, R A Roemer, C DeBease, E L Mancall
{"title":"Patterns of intellectual deficit in Huntington's disease.","authors":"R C Josiassen, L Curry, R A Roemer, C DeBease, E L Mancall","doi":"10.1080/01688638208401127","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01688638208401127","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The study investigated patterns of intellectual deficit in 13 patients with recently diagnosed Huntington's disease (mean duration of 2.3 years) and 46 offspring \"at risk\" for the illness using the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS). The results support the idea that certain cognitive skills remain relatively intact at early stages of the disease while other skills are impaired. A consistent pattern of impairment was observed in the patient group which included the Arithmetic, Digit Span, Digit Symbol, and Picture Arrangement subtests. The most striking result was a demonstration of significantly increased variability among the \"at risk\" population of the Digit Span and Picture Arrangement subtests. These findings suggest that the WAIS may be a useful adjunct to neurological diagnosis for longitudinal monitoring of intellectual changes even at very early stages of the illness.</p>","PeriodicalId":79225,"journal":{"name":"Journal of clinical neuropsychology","volume":"4 2","pages":"173-83"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1982-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01688638208401127","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17278299","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":"Electrodermal responses in patients with unilateral brain damage.","authors":"P Zoccolotti, D Scabini, C Violani","doi":"10.1080/01688638208401124","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01688638208401124","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Skin conductance responses (SCR) to emotional and to nonemotional stimuli were measured in 16 right and 16 left unilateral brain-damaged patients. Replicating findings by Morrow, Vrtunski, Kim and Boller (1981), those patients with a lesion in the left hemisphere showed higher SCR's to emotional than to nonemotional stimuli while those with a right lesion showed no difference between them. This pattern of results remained when variance in performance on a Facial Expression Recognition task was partialled out, suggesting that the absence of differentiated arousal in right-brain-damaged patients is unrelated to their impairment in perceptual analysis.</p>","PeriodicalId":79225,"journal":{"name":"Journal of clinical neuropsychology","volume":" ","pages":"143-50"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1982-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01688638208401124","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40524644","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":"Tachistoscopic visual perception after closed head injury.","authors":"H J Hannay, H S Levin, M Kay","doi":"10.1080/01688638208401122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01688638208401122","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Tachistoscopic visual perception was examined in 42 right-handed closed head injury patients and 10 normal controls by determining the duration for recognition of a trigram in central vision and by employing a visual field laterality task. Thresholds did not vary with severity of injury but were significantly longer than those of controls for midly, moderately, and severely injured patients. A nonsignificant right visual field superiority for trigram recognition was exhibited by all groups. Recognition of trigrams in either visual field was impaired in moderately and severely injured patients relative to controls. Possible explanations for these findings are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":79225,"journal":{"name":"Journal of clinical neuropsychology","volume":" ","pages":"117-29"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1982-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01688638208401122","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40524642","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}
R A Dull, G G Brown, K M Adams, M W Shatz, F G Diaz, J I Ausman
{"title":"Preoperative neurobehavioral impairment in cerebral revascularization candidates.","authors":"R A Dull, G G Brown, K M Adams, M W Shatz, F G Diaz, J I Ausman","doi":"10.1080/01688638208401125","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01688638208401125","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We examined level of performance in 40 candidates for cerebral revascularization and found substantial variability on general indices of neuropsychological performance. Patients differed by duration of their longest ischemic attack, by surgery type, but not by time since onset of their first ischemic attack. Duration of the longest ischemic attack correlated highly with neuropsychological summary scores. In contrast, symptom duration was unrelated to level of performance in 18 additional patients with histories consistent with cerebrovascular ischemia who did not undergo surgery subsequently. We concluded that initial status on neuropsychological tests is an important variable to consider in postoperative followup of patients undergoing cerebral revascularization. More detailed clinical history and finer grained analysis of neuropsychological data promised to reveal additional relationships among clinical symptoms, neurobehavioral data, and underlying neuropathology.</p>","PeriodicalId":79225,"journal":{"name":"Journal of clinical neuropsychology","volume":" ","pages":"151-65"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1982-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01688638208401125","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40524645","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 analysis of a case of crossed aphasia: implications for reversed laterality.","authors":"G J Larrabee, R L Kane, J A Rodgers","doi":"10.1080/01688638208401123","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01688638208401123","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We present a case of crossed aphasia and reversed laterality in a 60-year-old right-handed man. Neuropsychological assessment was conducted both prior, and three months subsequent, to the removal of a right temporal lobe tumor. Results, using the Luria-Nebraska Neuropsychological Battery, Wechsler Memory Scale and WAIS Block Design, plus various drawings from copy and to command revealed: (1) presurgery Luria profile very close to the mean profile for dominant temporal lobe dysfunction, (2) preserved visuospatial and visuoperceptive skills, (3) preserved limb praxis, and, (4) good postsurgery functional recovery. These findings are discussed in relation to literature on crossed aphasia and reversed laterality.</p>","PeriodicalId":79225,"journal":{"name":"Journal of clinical neuropsychology","volume":" ","pages":"131-42"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1982-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01688638208401123","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40524643","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":"A factor analytic study of the construct validity of the verbal concept attainment test.","authors":"R A Bornstein","doi":"10.1080/01688638208401115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01688638208401115","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The present study investigated the construct validity of the Verbal Concept Attainment Test (VCAT) by examining its relationship to other neuropsychological and reasoning tasks. It was found that the VCAT correlated highly with both the Similarities and Vocabulary subtests of the WAIS. It was suggested that the VCAT measures both verbal reasoning and verbal intelligence. Further, a high correlation was also found with both Verbal IQ and Performance IQ which indicated that the VCAT may also be regarded as a test of general intelligence. The relationship of the VCAT to several neuropsychological tests was also investigated. It was found that the VCAT correlated well with most of the neuropsychological tests employed. In addition, the strength of the correlation between each measure and the VCAT closely paralleled the strength of the correlation with the Impairment Index from the Halstead-Reitan Battery. These findings indicate that the VCAT may have some value in clinical neuropsychological assessment.</p>","PeriodicalId":79225,"journal":{"name":"Journal of clinical neuropsychology","volume":"4 1","pages":"43-50"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1982-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01688638208401115","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"35222111","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":"Measuring long-term memory storage and retrieval in children.","authors":"S F Morgan","doi":"10.1080/01688638208401118","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01688638208401118","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Given the successful use of selective reminding measures of learning and memory in experimental research, initial normative and psychometric data was collected to assess the potential clinical utility of a selective reminding measure with children. Sixty-six 5- to 8-year-old children were administered counterbalanced alternate forms of the selective reminding measure at two test periods separated by about four hours. Two of the three alternate forms tested were found to be of comparable difficulty, with the third being associated with slightly lower levels of performance. Statistical comparisons across the two test periods indicated that little practice effect occurs with the measure. Test-retest reliability coefficients were comparable to those found on some more established neuropsychological measures. It is hoped that the promise shown by this initial data will stimulate further clinical use and development of the selective reminding measure.</p>","PeriodicalId":79225,"journal":{"name":"Journal of clinical neuropsychology","volume":"4 1","pages":"77-85"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1982-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01688638208401118","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"35361256","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}