The Bipolar Depression Electrical Treatment Trial (BETTER): Design, Rationale, and Objectives of a Randomized, Sham-Controlled Trial and Data from the Pilot Study Phase by Bernardo de Sampaio Pereira Junior, Gabriel Tortella, Beny Lafer, Paula Nunes, Isabela Martins Benseñor, Paulo Andrade Lotufo, Rodrigo Machado-Vieira, André R. Brunoni

“…Sixty patients will be enrolled and assessed with clinical and neuropsychological tests. The primary outcome is change (over time and across groups) in the scores of the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (17 items). …”
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Alexithymia in multiple sclerosis: past, present and future by Samar S. Ayache, Samar S. Ayache, Samar S. Ayache, Samar S. Ayache, Moussa A. Chalah, Moussa A. Chalah, Moussa A. Chalah

“…In this mini review, we briefly reassess the prevalence, as well as the clinical, sociodemographic and neuropsychological correlates of alexithymia in MS (e.g., anxiety, depression, fatigue, socio-emotional outcomes). …”
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Syntactic Comprehension in Patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis by Kentarou Yoshizawa, Nao Yasuda, Michinari Fukuda, Yumi Yukimoto, Mieko Ogino, Wakana Hata, Ikuyo Ishizaka, Mari Higashikawa

“…Recent neuropsychological studies of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) have demonstrated that some patients have aphasic symptoms, including impaired syntactic comprehension. …”
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Crossed Aphasia and Visuo-Spatial Neglect Following a Right Thalamic Stroke: A Case Study and Review of the Literature by Lieve De Witte, Jo Verhoeven, Sebastiaan Engelborghs, Peter P. De Deyn, Peter Mariën

“…A review of these cases reveals that: (1) demographic data are consistent with the general findings for the entire group of vascular CAD, (2) the neurolinguistic findings do not support the data in the general CAD-population with regard to (a) the high prevalence of transcortical aphasia and (b) the tendency towards a copresence of an oral versus written language dissociation and a ‘mirror-image’ lesion-aphasia profile, (3) subcortical CAD is not a transient phenomenon, (4) the lesion-aphasia correlations are not congruent with the high incidence of anomalous cases in the general CAD-population, (5) neuropsychological impairments may accompany subcortical CAD.…”
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Gender differences in the influencing factors of violent behavior in patients with schizophrenia by Xiaolei Qiu, Lu Wen, Wenqi Jiang, Rongrong Zhang, Hongjun Mao, Shiping Xie

“…Methods About 519 patients were evaluated using the Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status (RBANS) and the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS). …”
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Assessment of Early Cognitive Impairment in Patients with Clinically Isolated Syndromes and Multiple Sclerosis by Leyla Baysal Kıraç, Özgül Ekmekçi, Nur Yüceyar, Ayşe Sağduyu Kocaman

“…Patients were matched with 40 healthy participants for age, sex, and educational level. Neuropsychological assessment was performed by stroop test, paced auditory serial addition test (PASAT), controlled oral word association test (COWAT), clock drawing test, trail making test (TMT), faces symbol test (FST). …”
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Enhanced computerized cognitive remediation therapy improved cognitive function, negative symptoms, and GDNF in male long-term inpatients with schizophrenia by Peiyun Zhang, Lingyun Chen, Qianqian Qin, Chao Liu, Haijiao Zhu, Wenqing Hu, Wenqing Hu, Xinyu He, Kaihong Tang, Qi Yan, Hongmei Shen, Hongmei Shen

“…Psychiatric symptoms, cognition, and serum levels of BDNF and GDNF were assessed at baseline, 4 weeks, and 8 weeks.ResultsCompared to the control group, the CCRT group exhibited decreased total Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale and negative subscale scores, as well as increased Montreal Cognitive Assessment and Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status scores. Moreover, improvements in list recall were associated with reduced negative symptoms. …”
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A Foreign Speech Accent in a Case of Conversion Disorder by Jo Verhoeven, Peter Mariën, Sebastiaan Engelborghs, Hugo D’Haenen, Peter De Deyn

“…Method: In addition to clinical and neuroradiological examinations, an extensive test battery of standardized neuropsychological and neurolinguistic investigations was carried out. …”
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Influence of Hypertension on Neurocognitive Domains in Nondemented Parkinson’s Disease Patients by Jacob D. Jones, Charles Jacobson, Martina Murphy, Catherine Price, Michael S. Okun, Dawn Bowers

“…A cross sectional design was used, including neuropsychological data on 341 PD patients without severe cognitive decline. …”
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Mini-Mental Parkinson: First Validation Study of a New Bedside Test Constructed for Parkinson’s Disease by F. Mahieux, D. Michelet, M.-J. Manifacier, F. Boller, J. Fermanian, A. Guillard

“…Comparisons were made with a neuropsychological battery including several tests widely used in the assessment of specific cognitive disorders in Parkinson’s disease. …”
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Uncovering narrative aging: an underlying neural mechanism compensated through spatial constructional ability by Yumeng Li, Junying Zhang, Xin Li, Zhanjun Zhang

“…This framework used a total of 740 healthy older participants with completed narrative and extensive neuropsychological tests and MRI scans. The results indicated that narrative comprises macro and micro structures, with the macrostructure involving complex cognitive processes more relevant to aging. …”
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Cognitive Impairment in Relapsing-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis Patients with Very Mild Clinical Disability by S. Migliore, A. Ghazaryan, I. Simonelli, P. Pasqualetti, F. Squitieri, G. Curcio, D. Landi, M. G. Palmieri, F. Moffa, M. M. Filippi, F. Vernieri

“…Our results show that utilizing a comprehensive neuropsychological assessment, approximately half of MS patients with very mild physical disability exhibit cognitive impairment with a primary involvement of prefrontal cognitive functions. …”
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Neuroplastic Effects of Combined Computerized Physical and Cognitive Training in Elderly Individuals at Risk for Dementia: An eLORETA Controlled Study on Resting States by Charis Styliadis, Panagiotis Kartsidis, Evangelos Paraskevopoulos, Andreas A. Ioannides, Panagiotis D. Bamidis

“…Cognitive function was assessed before and after intervention using a battery of neuropsychological tests including the minimental state examination (MMSE). …”
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Effect of Acupuncture and Motor Imagery Therapy on Unilateral Spatial Neglect in Stroke Patients by Da LEI, Renming XIE, Honggui CAO, Yanru LI, Fanglue CHEN

“…Objective:To explore effects of acupuncture and motor imagery on the comprehensive function of patients with unilateral spatial neglect (USN) after stroke.Methods:Stroke patients with hemiplegia were evaluated by neuropsychological tests and 40 right hemispheric stroke patients out of them were identified with USN. …”
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A study of serum brain-derived neurotrophic factor level in individuals with obsessive compulsive disorder and their first-degree relatives as compared to the healthy population by Shaily Mina, Rupam Dhiman, Prakamya Singal, Sukanya Gangopadhyay, Pankaj Verma, Shivani Kathuria

“…In obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), various putative biomarkers such as neuropsychological, neurophysiological, neuroradiological, brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), etc., have been explored. …”
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Consensus on rapid screening for prodromal Alzheimer’s disease in China by Yao Lu, Ying Wang, Jianping Jia, Qihao Guo, Ya Miao, Lin Huang, Xiaochun Chen, Qinjie Li, Fengfeng Pan, Liang Cui, Tianlu Chen, Yatian Li, Jingnan Wu

“…Recommended screening methods are presented in this publication, including neuropsychological assessment, peripheral biomarkers and brain imaging. …”
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Cognitive Functions and Cognitive Reserve in Relation to Blood Pressure Components in a Population-Based Cohort Aged 53 to 94 Years by Nunzia Giordano, Valérie Tikhonoff, Paolo Palatini, Anna Bascelli, Giovanni Boschetti, Fabia De Lazzari, Carla Grasselli, Bortolo Martini, Sandro Caffi, Antonio Piccoli, Alberto Mazza, Patrizia Bisiacchi, Edoardo Casiglia

“…In 288 men and women from general population in a cross-sectional survey, all neuropsychological tests were negatively associated with age; memory and executive function were also positively related with education. …”
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Characteristics and Reversibility of Dementia in Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus by Priyanka Chaudhry, Siddharth Kharkar, Jennifer Heidler-Gary, Argye E. Hillis, Melissa Newhart, Jonathan T. Kleinman, Cameron Davis, Daniele Rigamonti, Paul Wang, David N. Irani, Michael A. Williams

“…We prospectively studied performance of 60 patients with Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus on a comprehensive battery of neuropsychological tests before and after shunt surgery to determine which cognitive functions improve with shunt insertion. …”
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The concomitant anxiety and depression in patients with epilepsy caused by low-grade brain tumors by Sungel Xie, Jiao Qiao, Guoming Luan, Chuandong Liang, Chunyue You, Mingxiang Xie, Shunwu Xiao

“…We retrospectively reviewed the clinical data of patients who underwent preoperative neuropsychological evaluations of anxiety and depression and subsequent epilepsy surgery for LBTs. …”
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Cognitive impairment in PSP compared with PD: assessment by clinical subtype and longitudinal change by Ikuko Aiba, Hiroshi Tatsumi, Rina Hashimoto, Takeharu Tsuboi, Kosuke Kobayasi

“…The variability of cognitive impairment across clinical subtypes of PSP remains unclear.Objective This study aimed to compare the longitudinal changes in cognitive function between patients with PSP and Parkinson’s disease (PD) and to assess differences in cognitive impairment among PSP subtypes.Methods A retrospective observational study was conducted using neuropsychological testing data from patients with PSP and PD admitted to our hospital.Results The study included 38 patients with PD and 41 patients with PSP (23 PSP-Richardson’s syndrome, 14 PSP-progressive gait freezing (PSP-PGF), 3 PSP-Parkinsonism and 1 PSP-predominant corticobasal syndrome). …”
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