A Preliminary Study on the Trail-Making Test in Arabic–English Bilingual Young Adults

Razzak, Rima Abdul

doi:10.1080/09084282.2012.670163

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“…To our knowledge, this study is the first to create and validate a computerized comprehensive battery to evaluate the neurodevelopment of Arabic children. The BENCI battery is a valid and reliable instrument for evaluating the neurodevelopment of Arabic children and responds to the need for creating neuropsychological tests specific to the Arabic world (Abdul Razzak, 2013;Sobeh & Spijkers, 2013).…”

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Reliability and validity of the Arabic version of the computerized Battery for Neuropsychological Evaluation of Children (BENCI)

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Peralta-Ramírez

Pérez-Marfil

et al. 2014

Child Neuropsychology

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Batería de Evaluación Neuropsicológica Infantil (BENCI) is a computerized battery for the neuropsychological evaluation of children. This battery has been used in different studies to evaluate neuropsychological functions and neurodevelopment in children. The objective of this study is to test the validity and reliability of the first Arabic version of the BENCI on an Arabic population where neuropsychological tests are very scarce. We administrate the BENCI to 198 school-age children (98 boys and 100 girls) from Morocco. To examine the test retest reliability of the BENCI battery, we administered the battery 2 times to 43 children (23 boys and 20 girls) with 15 days in between the pre- and posttest. The results revealed good validity and reliability of the battery in Arabic children. Also, the BENCI battery has demonstrated the capacity to differentiate between children by their age group. This battery can be of great use to both the research and clinical areas of Arabic countries and/or in assistance to Arabic immigrants that live outside of their native country.

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Reliability and validity of the Arabic version of the computerized Battery for Neuropsychological Evaluation of Children (BENCI)

Fasfous

Peralta-Ramírez

Pérez-Marfil

et al. 2014

Child Neuropsychology

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“…The Trail Making Test part A (TMTA) is a measure of psychomotor speed (Razzak, 2013). In this test, circles are numbered from 1 to 25 and subjects are required to draw a line connecting the circles in numerical sequence as quickly as possible.…”

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Association of Age and Structural Brain Changes With Functional Connectivity and Executive Function in a Middle-Aged to Older Population-Based Cohort

Schulz

Mayer

Schlemm

et al. 2022

Front. Aging Neurosci.

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Aging is accompanied by structural brain changes that are thought to underlie cognitive decline and dementia. Yet little is known regarding the association between increasing age, structural brain damage, and alterations of functional brain connectivity. The aim of this study was to evaluate whether cortical thickness and white matter damage as markers of age-related structural brain changes are associated with alterations in functional connectivity in non-demented healthy middle-aged to older adults. Therefore, we reconstructed functional connectomes from resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) (rsfMRI) data of 976 subjects from the Hamburg City Health Study, a prospective population-based study including participants aged 45–74 years from the metropolitan region Hamburg, Germany. We performed multiple linear regressions to examine the association of age, cortical thickness, and white matter damage quantified by the peak width of skeletonized mean diffusivity (PSMD) from diffusion tensor imaging on whole-brain network connectivity and four predefined resting state networks (default mode, dorsal, salience, and control network). In a second step, we extracted subnetworks with age-related decreased functional connectivity from these networks and conducted a mediation analysis to test whether the effect of age on these networks is mediated by decreased cortical thickness or PSMD. We observed an independent association of higher age with decreased functional connectivity, while there was no significant association of functional connectivity with cortical thickness or PSMD. Mediation analysis identified cortical thickness as a partial mediator between age and default subnetwork connectivity and functional connectivity within the default subnetwork as a partial mediator between age and executive cognitive function. These results indicate that, on a global scale, functional connectivity is not determined by structural damage in healthy middle-aged to older adults. There is a weak association of higher age with decreased functional connectivity which, for specific subnetworks, appears to be mediated by cortical thickness.

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“…There is vast literature suggesting that the Trail Making Test solicits the integrity of executive functioning and psychomotor speed [ 49 ]. The Trail Making Test has two versions of the test, Form A and Form B.…”

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A Comprehensive Neuropsychological Study of Familial Hypercholesterolemia and Its Relationship with Psychosocial Functioning: A Biopsychosocial Approach

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BACKGROUND: Over the past few years, there has been an increasing interest in viewing the diagnosis of familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) through the lens of the biopsychosocial model. However, other than a few epidemiological surveys, there is a dearth of studies from emerging economies that have examined FH using the biological, psychological, and socio-environmental facets of the aforementioned model. AIM. The three aims of the current study were as follows: (i) to examine the psychosocial status among patients with genetically confirmed FH, (ii) to compare their intellectual capacity and cognitive outcomes with a reference group, and (iii) to examine the relationship between health literacy and cognitive functioning. METHOD: Consecutive FH patients referred to the lipid clinic at a tertiary care center for an expert opinion were recruited into this study conducted from September 2019 to March 2020. Information regarding psychosocial functioning, health literacy, quality of life, and affective ranges was surveyed. Indices of current reasoning ability and cognition (attention and concentration, memory, and executive functioning) were compared with a socio-demographically-matched reference group. The current hypothesis also explored the impact of FH on health literacy and cognition. RESULT: A total of 70 participants out of 106 (response rate: 66.0%) initially agreed to participate. However, 18 out of 70 dropped out of the study, yielding a final total of 52 FH patients. With 27 (51.9%) males and 25 (48.1%) females, the mean participant age stood at 37.2 years (SD = 9.2), ranging from 21 to 52 years of age. In the psychosocial data, thirty-two percent (n = 17) of them had anxiety (HADS ≥ 8), and twenty-five percent (n = 13) had depressive symptoms (HADS ≥ 8). The performance of the FH patients was significantly impaired compared to the control group on the indices of current reasoning ability and all domains of cognitive functioning. In the univariate analysis conducted to compare cognitive functioning with health literacy status, only indices of attention and concentration emerged as being significant. CONCLUSION: The current study indicates that the FH population is marked with impediments in biopsychosocial functioning, including indices tapping into the integrity of health literacy, quality of life, affective ranges, and higher functioning such as cognition and current reasoning ability when compared with a socio-demographically-matched reference group. The present results support the hypothesis that chronic diseases vis-à-vis the sequelae of coronary artery disease can potentially impede biopsychosocial functioning.

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A Preliminary Study on the Trail-Making Test in Arabic–English Bilingual Young Adults

Cited by 12 publications

References 35 publications

Reliability and validity of the Arabic version of the computerized Battery for Neuropsychological Evaluation of Children (BENCI)

Reliability and validity of the Arabic version of the computerized Battery for Neuropsychological Evaluation of Children (BENCI)

Association of Age and Structural Brain Changes With Functional Connectivity and Executive Function in a Middle-Aged to Older Population-Based Cohort

A Comprehensive Neuropsychological Study of Familial Hypercholesterolemia and Its Relationship with Psychosocial Functioning: A Biopsychosocial Approach

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