NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL EVALUATION OF PSYCHIATRIC AND NEUROLOGICAL PATIENTS

一套全面的神经心理测试组合被用来 提供各种认知和感觉的完整评估 可能与不同组织中的损伤或功能障碍有关的功能 大脑的各个区域。成人电池包括旨在挖掘 行为的以下方面：注意力，执行功能， 语言、记忆、运动功能、定向、选择的感觉和 感知功能、警觉性和视觉空间功能。在 此外，成年人还要接受一般智力测试， 人格量表在一些研究中，受试者被给予 结构化精神病学访谈改良电池已被 用于评估婴儿、学龄前儿童和 6 - 16岁的儿童。这些电池提供的数据正在被使用 建立一个关于注意力要素的神经心理学理论 可以应用于神经和精神诊断 在LPP中进行研究。LPP的主要焦点障碍 包括精神分裂症、癫痫、进食障碍、 精神障碍情感障碍头部损伤和艾滋病痴呆 复杂.目前正在对 各类精神病患者的神经心理学特征 以及在特定脑中具有已知脑病变的患者的那些 地区我们的数据也被用于描述神经行为- 在诊断类别内定义的亚组，一项旨在 减少精神病诊断、治疗和 结果。本方案提供的数据提供了完整的 行为评估可以与同时收集的 电生理学、神经放射学和生物化学信息。

A set of comprehensive neuropsychological test batteries is used to provide a complete assessment of various cognitive and sensory functions that can be related to damage or dysfunction in different regions of the brain. The adult battery comprises tests designed to tap the following aspects of behavior: attention, executive functions, language, memory, motor functions, orientation, selected sensory and perceptual functions, vigilance, and visual-spatial functions. In addition, adults are given a test of general intelligence and a personality inventory. In some studies, subjects are administered a structured psychiatric interview. Modified batteries have been developed for the assessment of infants, preschool children, and children ages 6-16. The data provided by these batteries are being used to construct a neuropsychological theory of the elements of attention that may be applied to the neurological and psychiatric diagnostic groups under study in the LPP. The LPP has as its major focus disorders involving impaired attention, including schizophrenia, epilepsy eating disorders, affective disorders, head injuries. and AIDS dementia complex. Comparisons are being carried out between the neuropsychological profiles of various groups of psychiatric patients and those of patients with known cerebral lesions in specified brain regions. Our data are also being used to delineate neurobehaviorally- defined subgroups within diagnostic categories, an undertaking aimed at reducing variability in psychiatric diagnosis, treatment, and outcome. The data provided by this protocol provide a complete behavioral assessment that may be integrated with concurrently gathered electrophysiological, neuroradiological, and biochemical information.