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Literacy and Numeracy in Children on Autism Spectrum Disorder
ObjectivesThe variability in patterns of acquisition of literacy and numeracy skills in young children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is...
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Use of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) for studying cognitive control in depressed patients: A systematic review
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a debilitating mental disorder and the leading cause of disease burden. Major depressive disorder is associated...
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Overview of Modern Measurement Theory and Examples of Its Use to Measure Execution Function in Children
Researchers and clinicians in neuropsychology are interested in measuring constructs that cannot be directly observed, such as cognitive ability,...
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Prospect of Brainwave Entrainment to Promote Well-Being in Individuals: A Brief Review
Brainwave entrainment (BWE) refers to the use of external stimuli to produce a frequency following response of brainwaves to match the frequency of...
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Quality of health care with regard to detection and treatment of mental disorders in patients with coronary heart disease (MenDis-CHD): study protocol
BackgroundMental disorders (MD), such as depression, anxiety, and cognitive impairment, are highly prevalent in patients with coronary heart disease...
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Séquelles cognitives chez les patients traités pour une leucémie aiguë lymphoblastique pendant l’enfance
In our experience, some children treated for leukemia describe cognitive impairment including memory disorders, which led us to conduct a literature...
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Do Handwriting Difficulties Correlate with Core Symptomology, Motor Proficiency and Attentional Behaviours?
Handwriting is commonly identified as an area of weakness in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), but precise deficits have not been fully...
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Disruption of Neurosynaptic Physiology and Neuron Network Dysfunction in Brain Disorders: an Environmental and Occupational Health Perspective
Signaling molecules are subject to impact of numerous products of risk genes and varied environmental insults. Networks of signaling cascades...
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Prematurity and Failure to Thrive: The Interplay of Medical Conditions and Development
Prematurity and failure to thrive are two classic biopsychosocial conditions which present short- and long-term challenges to families and to the...
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The Impact of Chronic Pesticide Exposure on Neuropsychological Functioning
This study compared neuropsychological test performance of individuals (n = 18) with an occupational history of pesticide exposure to individuals (n...
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Riabilitazione neuropsicologica dei disturbi dell’attenzione e delle funzioni esecutive
Per eseguire e portare a termine le attività della vita quotidiana in maniera efficiente è necessario avere chiari gli obiettivi da raggiungere,...
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Use of Multimodality Imaging and Neuropsychological Measures for the Assessment and Treatment of Auditory Verbal Hallucinations: A Brain to Behavior Approach
Patients suffering from auditory verbal hallucinations (AVHs) may utilize unique co** strategies in order to reduce distraction caused by the...
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Cerebrovascular Disease and Stroke
The term stroke encompasses a heterogeneous group of cerebrovascular diseases, each with distinctive clinical presentations, underlying causes and...
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Brief Report: Alterations in Cerebral Blood Flow as Assessed by PET/CT in Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder with Normal IQ
Specific biological markers for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) have not yet been established. Functional studies have shown abnormalities in the...
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Neurotoxicity in Neuropsychology
This chapter will provide definitions regarding neurotoxicity, general principles of neurotoxic damage, symptom presentation for common neurotoxic...
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Parkinson’s Disease and Other Movement Disorders
This chapter reviews the anatomy, physiology, treatment and cognitive/neuropsychological aspects of movement disorders, of which Parkinson’s disease...
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Epilepsy and Seizures
Epilepsy represents an important area of clinical neuropsychological practice and research. Historically, clinical neuropsychology studies primarily...
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Component-Specific Self-Regulation of Slow Cortical Potentials and its Effect on Behavior: An Exploratory Study
In the present study, the possibility of component-specific self-regulation of the contingent negative variation (CNV) and the functional...
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Neuropsychological Sequelae of Chronic Medical Disorders in Children and Youth
When this chapter was originally conceived and written several years ago, neuropsychologists had been largely concerned with the evaluation of...