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 全面评估各种认知和感觉功能， 与大脑不同区域的损伤或功能障碍有关。的 成人电池包括旨在挖掘以下方面的测试 行为：注意力、执行功能、语言、记忆、运动 功能、定向、选定的感觉和知觉功能， 警惕性和视觉空间功能。此外，成人还可获得 一般智力测验和个性调查表。在一些研究中， 对受试者进行结构化的精神病学访谈。改性 已经开发了用于评估婴儿、学龄前儿童、 儿童和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要素 注意，可能适用于神经和精神 LPP中正在研究的诊断组。法律专业保密权的主要重点是 涉及注意力受损的疾病，包括精神分裂症，癫痫， 进食障碍、情感障碍、头部损伤和艾滋病痴呆 复杂.神经心理学的比较正在进行 各类精神病患者的概况及 在特定脑区有已知的脑损伤我们的数据也 用于描述神经行为学定义的亚组， 诊断类别，一项旨在减少 精神病诊断、治疗和结果。这份报告提供的数据 协议提供了一个完整行为评估， 同时收集电生理，神经放射学， 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.