BACKGROUND: Activities of daily living (ADL) are important for quality of life. They are indicators of cognitive health status and their assessment is a measure of independence in everyday living. ADL are difficult to reliably assess using questionna...
International journal of geriatric psychiatry
Feb 17, 2015
OBJECTIVE: Currently, depression diagnosis relies primarily on behavioral symptoms and signs, and treatment is guided by trial and error instead of evaluating associated underlying brain characteristics. Unlike past studies, we attempted to estimate ...
Child neuropsychology : a journal on normal and abnormal development in childhood and adolescence
Dec 11, 2014
The neuropsychology of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has been extensively studied, with a general focus on global performance measures of executive function. In this study, we compared how global (i.e., endpoint) versus process (i.e...
European child & adolescent psychiatry
Aug 11, 2014
Identifying early-onset schizophrenia spectrum disorders (SSD) at a very early stage remains challenging. To assess the diagnostic predictive value of multiple types of data at the emergence of early-onset first-episode psychosis (FEP), various suppo...
Structural neuroimaging studies of patients with Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy (JME) typically present two findings: 1-volume reduction of subcortical gray matter structures, and 2-abnormalities of cortical thickness. The general trend has been to obse...
Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association
Mar 1, 2025
BACKGROUND: Integrating non-invasive measures to estimate abnormal amyloid beta accumulation (Aβ+) is key to developing a screening tool for preclinical Alzheimer's disease (AD). The predictive capability of standard neuropsychological tests in estim...
Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association
Feb 1, 2025
INTRODUCTION: Cognitive decline has become a growing public concern, yet large-scale exposure data identifying the contributing factors remain limited.
Archives of clinical neuropsychology : the official journal of the National Academy of Neuropsychologists
Jan 21, 2025
High-quality and accessible education is crucial for advancing neuropsychology. A recent study identified key barriers to board certification in clinical neuropsychology, such as time constraints and insufficient specialized knowledge. To address the...
INTRODUCTION: Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have been substantial. We investigated the effectiveness of an online meeting in which normal older adults (otokai) used a music-generative AI that transforms text to music (Music Trinity ...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2024
Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder with a diverse range of symptoms, including personality changes, behavioral disturbances, language deficits, and impaired executive functions. FTD has three main subtypes: beha...