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Wah-Mei Kodimer – ProQuest LLC, 2015
The purpose of the proposed study is to add to the literature regarding the assessment of effort and malingering in the field of neuropsychology using the Rey Complex Figure Test (RCFT). The majority of the literature on this measure has been in the specific areas for which the instrument was developed, namely those of visual spatial and…
Descriptors: Psychological Evaluation, Neuropsychology, Recognition (Psychology), Test Construction
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Chan, Agnes S.; Han, Yvonne M. Y.; Sze, Sophia L.; Cheung, Mei-chun; Leung, Winnie Wing-man; Chan, Raymond C. K.; To, Cho Yee – Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 2011
The present study examined the memory performance and cortical connectivity of children with ASD, and investigated whether the memory deficits exhibited by these children were associated with the cortical connectivity. Twenty-one children with ASD and 21 children with normal development (NC), aged 5-14 years, participated in the study. Each child…
Descriptors: Autism, Memory, Memorization, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
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Jissendi-Tchofo, Patrice; Pandit, Florence; Soto-Ares, Gustavo; Vallee, Louis – Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 2011
Aim: To describe neuropsychological disturbances and the developmental course associated with cerebellar cortical dysplasia (CCD). Method: The neuroimaging findings from 10 children (five males, five females; aged 3-10y) with CCD were reviewed and classified. These children all underwent clinical neurological examination and neuropsychological…
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Adjustment (to Environment), Evaluation Methods, Brain Hemisphere Functions
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Bloch, Michael H.; Sukhodolsky, Denis G.; Leckman, James F.; Schultz, Robert T. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2006
Background: Most children with Tourette's syndrome (TS) experience a significant decline in tic symptoms during adolescence. Currently no clinical measures have been identified that can predict whose tic symptoms will persist into adulthood. Patients with TS have deficits on neuropsychological tests involving fine-motor coordination and…
Descriptors: Neurological Impairments, Economically Disadvantaged, Testing, Children