Abstract: Although neuropsychological investigations of schizophrenia are methodologically challenging and often reveal inconsistent and wide-ranging deficits, convergent themes in the literature can be found regarding abnormalities of attention, memory ...
Neuropsychological Aspects of Prospective RememberingAbstract:Experimental as well as neuropsychological research has mainly applied simple prospective memory tasks. These tasks, however, might not reflect processes like planning or self-initiated ...
Executive Functions Among Boys with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: A Pilot StudyAbstract: Recent studies reported inconsistent findings on child and adolescent Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) whether it is characterized by a ...
Executive Functions: Overview and TaxonomyAbstract: This review article proposes a taxonomy of executive functions based on neuropsychological models. The goal is to present a multidimensional framework of executive functions and associated diagnostic ...
Several studies indicate that the frontal cortex is sensitive to the toxic effects of alcohol. Recent studies of our group revealed an impairment of alcohol dependent subjects in object alternation. One major problem of these studies is that they all used ...
Decision making in Parkinson’s disease – an overviewDecision making is a key function in everyday life. Patients with cognitive dysfunctions are often confronted with difficult decisions. Previous research has revealed cognitive deficits in patients with ...
Derzeit ist eine Vielzahl neuropsychologischer Testverfahren verfügbar. Die z. T. inhaltliche Überschneidung führt zu differierenden Ergebnissen in der Diagnostik der Aufmerksamkeitsdefizit-/Hyperaktivitätsstörung. Im Rahmen der Erfassung von ...
Executive Deficits, Repressive Coping Behaviour and the Overestimation of Memory PerformanceWe examined the influence of executive functions and a repressive coping disposition on the overestimation of memory abilities in a group of 80 patients with ...
Construction of a Questionnaire for Complaints of Cognitive Disturbances in Patients with Mental DisordersThe present study aimed at a first evaluation of the new developed questionnaire for complaints of cognitive disturbances (FLei) in patients with ...
We assessed whether video game experience exerts substantial influence on standardised measures of driving skill. Three subject groups (n = 90) with different video game experiences (frequent, moderate and without extensive experience) performed standard ...
ADHD in Childhood: Etiology and Treatments Focusing on Brain ImagingThe attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is one of the most prevalent psychological disorders in childhood. The goal is to describe the status quo in etiology regarding ...
Neuropsychological Assessment of Adult ADHDADHD can be regarded as a multidimensional disorder often accompanied by neuropsychological impairments. Not only attention intensity, attention control and executive functions are affected but also additional ...
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is associated with a marked impairment in the ability to do two things at once, or ‘dual task’. Several studies have reported that depression is also associated with impairments in cognitive functioning, particularly executive ...
The chapter reviews the evidence in support of the idea that cognitive functions can benefit from listening to music or making music and how this evidence might be used to stabilize cognitive aging and prevent or diminish cognitive decline. The beneficial ...
Autosomal-dominante Ataxien sind eine heterogene Gruppe von Erkrankungen, denen ein zerebelläres Syndrom gemeinsam ist. Neben motorischen Einschränkungen zeigen sich auch häufig kognitive Beeinträchtigungen und affektive Störungen. Exekutive Dysfunktion ...
Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson’s DiseaseDeep brain stimulation is one of the most effective therapies to treat Parkinson’s disease. The subthalamic nucleus (STN), the internal part of globus pallidum (GPi) and the nucleus ventrointermedius (VIM) of ...
Cognitive skills and language development in children aged between four and five yearsAbstract. The aim of the present study is to investigate the association of various cognitive basic competencies and language skills in preschoolers. Children with low ...
Abstract. The Executive Functions Module of the Neuropsychological Assessment Battery (NAB) and the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale – Fourth Edition (WAIS-IV) were used to investigate age-related differences in the predictability of intelligence with ...
Subjective ratings and objective cognitive performance in mentally healthy individualsAbstract. Neuropsychological studies show equivocal results for the relationship between subjective and objective measures of cognitive performance. Cognitive ...
Abstract. The assessment of executive functions (EF) often yields conflicting results between standardized tests and self-ratings (e. g., in depression or adult ADHD). For the present investigation, standardized EF-tasks were enriched in order to better ...