NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL EVALUATION OF PSYCHIATRIC AND NEUROLOGICAL PATIENTS

一套全面的神经心理测试组合被用来 提供对各种认知和感官的完整评估 可能与损伤或功能障碍相关的不同功能 大脑的不同区域。成人电池包括旨在敲击的测试 行为的以下几个方面：注意力、执行功能、 语言，记忆，运动功能，方向，选择的感觉和 感知功能、警觉功能和视觉空间功能。在……里面 此外，成年人还要接受一般智力测试和一项 人格问卷。在一些研究中，受试者被给予一种 有组织的精神病学面谈。改装后的电池已经被 开发用于评估婴儿、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 构建注意要素的神经心理学理论 可以应用于神经学和精神病学的诊断 LPP中正在研究的小组。LPP的主要焦点是精神障碍 涉及注意力受损，包括精神分裂症、癫痫进食 精神障碍，情感障碍，头部受伤。和艾滋病痴呆症 很复杂。正在进行的比较是在 不同类型精神病患者的神经心理特征 以及特定脑部已知脑部病变的患者 地区。我们的数据也被用来描述神经行为-- 在诊断类别内定义了亚组，这是一项旨在 减少精神病学诊断、治疗和治疗中的变异性 结果。该协议提供的数据提供了完整的 可与同时收集的数据集成的行为评估 电生理、神经放射和生化信息。

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.