OBJECTIVES Screening tests play a crucial role in dementia diagnostics, thus they should be very sensitive for mild cognitive impairment (MCI) assessment. Nowadays, the MiniMental State Examination (MMSE) is the most commonly used scale in cognitive function evaluation, albeit it is claimed to be imprecise for MCI detection. The Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA), was created as an alternativ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the diagnostic utility of electrophysiological recordings during active cognitive tasks in detecting residual cognitive capacities in patients with disorders of consciousness (DoC) after severe acquired brain injury. DESIGN Systematic review of empirical research in MEDLINE, Embase, PsycINFO, and Cochrane from January 2002 to March 2016. MAIN MEASURES Data extracted...

There is still relatively little research on cognitive diagnostic analysis of large-scale, high-stakes language tests to assess the individualized strengths and weaknesses every learner, even less accuracy applicability feedback information in post-hoc learning. Using both results 1.933 test takers a national Spanish qualitative data from their bachelor thesis drafts, precision feedbacks was ex...

the aim of the current study was examine the effectiveness of  cognitive behavioral therapy on affective maturity and happiness in psychology student of azad university of bojnoutd.40 person were selecting by employing simple random sampling . they completed effective maturity scale (ems) for assessment of effective maturity and oxford happiness questionnaire for the assessment of happiness. an...

There is a long history of calls for combining cognitive science and psychometrics (Cronbach, 1975; Snow & Lohman, 1989). The U.S. standards movement, begun more than 20 years ago (McKnight et al., 1987; National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 1989), sought to articulate public standards for learning that would define and promote successful performance by all students; establish a common b...

Aim of the study was to describe prospectively the early neuropsychological evolution including the first pre-cognitive stages of the Severe Myoclonic Epilepsy in Infancy (SMEI) or Dravet syndrome. Five cases, four of whom since before a diagnostic evidence of the Dravet syndrome, were followed up. Full clinical assessment including developmental, visual function and behaviour assessments were ...

Diagnosis can prove challenging when a patient with a chronic neurological disease presents with acute deterioration. This is especially true in Huntington's disease, where cognitive impairment is prominent. We present a case of hypercalcaemia causing an acute deterioration in physical and cognitive function in a patient with Huntington's disease. Similarity in clinical phenotype between hyperc...

OBJECTIVE Establishing a psychiatric diagnosis and assessing suicidal tendencies is often a challenging task particularly in the early stages of an illness. Cognitive impairments characterize different psychiatric entities, but there is no known specific cognitive deficit profile that could help the clinician in achieving the diagnostic task. This study's aim was to establish a cognitive profil...

The presence of hoarding symptoms in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a commonly reported phenomenon. How these symptoms are to be understood is less clear. The extent to which hoarding fits with other symptoms of OCD by considering its diagnostic utility and underlying cognitive processes is evaluated. In the first study, hoarding symptoms did not differentiate OCD patients...

BACKGROUND Nonlinguistic cognitive impairment has become an important issue for aphasic patients, but currently there are few neuropsychological cognitive assessment tests for it. To get more information on cognitive impairment of aphasic patients, this study aimed to develop a new cognitive assessment test battery for aphasic patients, the Non-language-based Cognitive Assessment (NLCA), and ev...