Wechsler Scales

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A confrontational naming task produces congruent increases and decreases in PET and fMRI. 
  • A long-term longitudinal study of intellectual ability of older adults: the matter of selective subject attrition. 
  • Acute neurocognitive response to methylphenidate among survivors of childhood cancer: a randomized, double-blind, cross-over trial. 
  • Adult age differences in visual search accuracy: attentional guidance and target detectability. 
  • Age-related slowing and the time course of semantic priming in visual word identification. 
  • Association of Childhood Lead Exposure With MRI Measurements of Structural Brain Integrity in Midlife. 
  • Attentional and eye tracking deficits correlate with negative symptoms in schizophrenia. 
  • Birthweight predicts IQ: fact or artefact? 
  • Brief report: effect of intravenous methotrexate dose and infusion rate on neuropsychological function one year after diagnosis of acute lymphoblastic leukemia. 
  • Characteristics associated with presence of depressive symptoms in adults with autism spectrum disorder. 
  • Cognitive function after major noncardiac surgery, apolipoprotein E4 genotype, and biomarkers of brain injury. 
  • Cognitive function and biological correlates of cognitive performance in schizotypal personality disorder. 
  • Cross-sectional and longitudinal patterns of three Wechsler Memory Scale Subtests. 
  • Default mode network connectivity in children with a history of preschool onset depression. 
  • Demographically-adjusted norms for the WAIS-R Block Design and Arithmetic subtests: Results from the Neuropsychological Norms for the US-Mexico Border Region in Spanish (NP-NUMBRS) project. 
  • Demographically-adjusted norms for the processing speed subtests of the WAIS-III in a Spanish-speaking adult population: Results from the Neuropsychological Norms for the U.S.-Mexico Border Region in Spanish (NP-NUMBRS) project. 
  • Developmental implications of changing trajectories of IQ in males with fragile X syndrome. 
  • Disentangling the Impact of Low Cognitive Ability and Inattention on Social Behavior and Peer Relations 
  • Donepezil for cognitive decline following coronary artery bypass surgery: a pilot randomized controlled trial. 
  • Effect of aging on cerebral autoregulation during cardiopulmonary bypass. Association with postoperative cognitive dysfunction. 
  • Eye tracking, attention, and schizotypal symptoms in nonpsychotic relatives of patients with schizophrenia. 
  • Facial expressions of emotion and psychopathology in adolescent boys. 
  • Functional Reorganization of Memory after Traumatic Brain Injury: A Study with H2O Positron Emission Tomography 
  • Good test--retest reliability for standard and advanced false-belief tasks across a wide range of abilities. 
  • Hydrocephalus as a possible additional contributor to cognitive outcome in survivors of pediatric medulloblastoma. 
  • Hypertension affects neurobehavioral functioning. 
  • IQ and delinquency: a direct test of the differential detection hypothesis. 
  • IQ scores of treatment-resistant schizophrenia patients before and after the onset of the illness. 
  • Improving aerobic capacity in healthy older adults does not necessarily lead to improved cognitive performance. 
  • Impulsive and premeditated subtypes of aggression in conduct disorder: differences in time estimation. 
  • Interaction of hypertension and age in visual selective attention performance. 
  • Interleukin-6 covaries inversely with hippocampal grey matter volume in middle-aged adults. 
  • Is insomnia associated with deficits in neuropsychological functioning? Evidence from a population-based study. 
  • Learning and memory in combat veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • Longitudinal study of neuropsychological functioning in patients on chronic hemodialysis: a preliminary report. 
  • Neuropsychologic performance in school-aged children with sickle cell disease: a report from the Cooperative Study of Sickle Cell Disease. 
  • Neuropsychological and psychiatric sequelae of pallidotomy for PD: clinical trial findings. 
  • Neuropsychological correlates of central monoamine function in chronic schizophrenia: relationship between CSF metabolites and cognitive function. 
  • Neuropsychological function in children with maltreatment-related posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • Neuropsychological functioning and MRI signal hyperintensities in geriatric depression. 
  • Origins of individual differences in theory of mind: from nature to nurture? 
  • Patterns of intellectual development in later life. 
  • Perceived social competency in children with brain tumors: comparison between children on and off therapy. 
  • Performance of nonpsychotic relatives of schizophrenic patients on cognitive tests. 
  • Postoperative hyperthermia is associated with cognitive dysfunction after coronary artery bypass graft surgery. 
  • Psychometric evaluation of 5- and 7-year-old children's self-reports of conduct problems. 
  • Residential neighborhood greenery and children's cognitive development. 
  • Retinal vessel caliber and lifelong neuropsychological functioning: retinal imaging as an investigative tool for cognitive epidemiology. 
  • Self-reported delinquency, neuropsychological deficit, and history of attention deficit disorder. 
  • Sluggish cognitive tempo in survivors of pediatric brain tumors. 
  • Source-monitoring deficits for self-generated stimuli in schizophrenia: multinomial modeling of data from three sources. 
  • The accumulative effect of trauma exposure on short-term and delayed verbal memory in a treatment-seeking sample of female rape victims. 
  • The diagnostic utility of WISC-R measures with children referred to a developmental evaluation center. 
  • The impact of neuropsychological functioning on treatment outcome in pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder. 
  • The natural history of change in intellectual performance: who changes? How much? Is it meaningful? 
  • The role of biomedical and psychosocial processes in the intellectual and academic functioning of children and adolescents with cystic fibrosis. 
  • Tourette's syndrome: an expanded view. 
  • Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) of frontal cortex decreases performance on the WAIS-IV intelligence test. 
  • Validity of the Wonderlic Personnel Test as a brief IQ measure in psychiatric patients. 
  • WISC-R verbal and performance IQ discrepancy in an unselected cohort: clinical significance and longitudinal stability. 
  • Wechsler Memory Scale Scores, selective attrition, and distance from death. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Laskowitz, Daniel Todd, Professor of Neurology, Duke Science & Society