A Short Form of the WAIS for use with the Aged

Britton, Peter G.; Savage, R. D.

doi:10.1192/bjp.112.485.417

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“…Neuropsychological evaluation included the Verbal Fluency Test, the Stroop Task (Stroop, 1935), an abridged version of Wechsler's Revised Intelligence Scale for Adults (Britton & Savage, 1966;Wechsler, 1989), including four subtests (Crawford et al, 1992), and the Wechsler Memory Scale (Wechsler, 1991).…”

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Directed forgetting in depression

Cottencin

Gruat

Thomas

et al. 2008

J Int Neuropsychol Soc

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Subjects with depression exhibit deficits in prefrontal function. We posited that as a result, in a supraspan memory test, they would be impaired in their ability to inhibit recall of irrelevant words, and because of consequent overload of working and episodic memory capacity, would be impaired in their ability to recall relevant words. We tested this hypothesis in 30 inpatients and outpatients with a diagnosis of major depressive disorder and 30 controls subjects using a form of the Directed Forgetting Paradigm using exclusively neutral words. The depressed subjects did exhibit deficits in prefrontal function. All subjects were given four lists of 24 items each, in which half the words were followed by the instruction "remember" and half by the instruction "forget." Our hypothesis found support in a significant group by item type interaction effect exhibited when subjects were instructed to recall only those items followed by the "remember" instruction: depressed subjects recalled relatively more words to be forgotten and relatively fewer words to be remembered. A control experiment suggested that these results could not be accounted for by a differential effect of depression on memory encoding. (JINS, 2008, 14, 895-899.)

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Directed forgetting in depression

Cottencin

Gruat

Thomas

et al. 2008

J Int Neuropsychol Soc

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“…We also administered a shortened version of the WAIS-R UK , comprising the Vocabulary, Comprehension, Block Design and Object Assembly tests. From these four subscales, verbal, performance and full-scale IQ could be estimated (Britton and Savage, 1966).…”

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Reliability of a telephone‐administered cognitive test battery (TACT) between telephone and face‐to‐face administration

Thompson

Prince²,

Macdonald³

et al. 2001

Int J Methods Psych Res

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“…Both groups were assessed on the IQ scale (short version of the WAIS-R ; Britton and Savage, 1966), which was used to measure global cognitive functioning.…”

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Effects of atypical neuroleptics on alertness and visual orienting in stabilized schizophrenic patients: a preliminary study

Daban

Krebs

Bourdel

et al. 2004

Int. J. Neuropsychopharm.

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It has been shown that schizophrenic patients treated with conventional neuroleptics display a general slowness in latency in simple reaction-time tasks and a disengagement deficit in visual-orienting tasks. Yet, the influence of atypical neuroleptics on attention is still controversial. The purpose of our study was to investigate the effect of atypical neuroleptics in tasks requiring alertness, selective attention or visual orienting. Thirteen stabilized schizophrenic patients receiving atypical neuroleptics were compared to 13 healthy controls matched for age, gender, and study level, in a choice reaction time (CRT) task and a visual-orienting task cued target detection (CTD) task. The results showed that patients and controls obtained comparable reaction times (RTs) in the CRT task. In the CTD task, both groups had comparable RTs but the presence of invalid cues caused a greater attentional cost in both visual fields for patients compared to controls, indicating a symmetrical disengagement deficit. To conclude, patients treated with atypical neuroleptics had a phasic alertness ability similar to controls. By contrast, an impairment of disengagement was present in those patients. Thus, atypical neuroleptics could have a positive influence on certain but not all attentional domains.

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A Short Form of the WAIS for use with the Aged

Cited by 49 publications

References 7 publications

Directed forgetting in depression

Directed forgetting in depression

Reliability of a telephone‐administered cognitive test battery (TACT) between telephone and face‐to‐face administration

Effects of atypical neuroleptics on alertness and visual orienting in stabilized schizophrenic patients: a preliminary study

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