NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL EVALUATION OF PSYCHIATRIC AND NEUROLOGICAL PATIENTS

一套全面的神经心理测试电池被用来提供 对各种认知和感觉功能的完整评估，可以 与大脑不同区域的损伤或功能障碍有关。这个 成人电池包括旨在利用以下方面的测试 行为：注意力、执行功能、语言、记忆、运动 功能、取向、选定的感觉和感知功能， 警觉性和视觉空间功能。此外，成年人还会得到一个 一般智力测验和人格问卷。在一些研究中， 受试者接受有组织的精神病学面谈。已修改 已开发出用于评估婴幼儿、学龄前儿童的电池 儿童，以及6-16岁的儿童。这些电池提供的数据是 被用来构建神经心理学理论的元素 可应用于神经学和精神病学的注意力 LPP中正在研究的诊断小组。自民党的主要关注点是 注意力受损的疾病，包括精神分裂症，癫痫， 饮食障碍、情感障碍、头部损伤和艾滋病痴呆症 很复杂。正在进行的比较是在神经心理学和 不同精神疾病患者群体及患者概况 在特定的脑区有已知的脑损伤。我们的数据也是 被用来描述神经行为定义的亚群 诊断类别，一项旨在减少 精神病学的诊断、治疗和结果。由本网站提供的数据 协议提供可集成完整行为评估 同时收集电生理学、神经放射学和 生化信息。

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.