Memory and information processing capacity after closed head injury.

Gronwall, Dorothy; Wrightson, Philip

doi:10.1136/jnnp.44.10.889

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“…What are the advantages of DOT-A in comparison with other working memory tasks, e.g., the Alphabetical Word Span Test (Belleville, Rouleau, & Caza, 1998), the Day of the Week Ordering Test (Kempler, Almor, Tyler, Andersen, & Macdonald, 1998), Letter-Number Sequencing (WAIS-III; Wechsler, 1997), or the Paced Auditory Serial Attention Test (PASAT; Gronwall & Wrightson, 1981)? Firstly, the analogy to the Wechsler Digit spans allows for the investigation of short-term memory and working memory with the same materials.…”

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The Adaptive Digit Ordering Test Clinical application, reliability, and validity of a verbal working memory test

Werheid

Hoppe²,

Thöne

et al. 2002

Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology

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In the face of ample experimental evidence on the importance of working memory capacity for everyday life, there is a growing need for measures suited for clinical assessment of working memory. For this purpose, the Adaptive Digit Ordering Test (DOT-A), a new version of a digit ordering test introduced by Cooper et al. [Brain 114 (1991) 2095, was developed in analogy to the Digit spans. In Study 1, we investigated DOT-A performance in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) and patients with frontal lobe damage, as these groups often exhibit working memory impairments within the framework of executive dysfunctions. In comparison with matched controls, both patient groups showed reduced performance in DOT-A but not in Digit span performance. This pattern was found to be particularly sensitive for patients with PD. In Study 2, DOT-A performance was assessed in 50 healthy subjects carefully selected according to demographic criteria in order to ensure representativity. Parallel test and split-half correlations indicated sufficient reliability of the DOT-A. Concurrent validity was confirmed by significant correlation with a well-established working memory test (two-back task). We conclude that DOT-A is a promising diagnostic instrument, and its economy and direct comparability to the

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The Adaptive Digit Ordering Test Clinical application, reliability, and validity of a verbal working memory test

Werheid

Hoppe²,

Thöne

et al. 2002

Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology

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“…The estimated number of days of disability per year for persons who had sustained head injuries was 14 (10)(11)(12)(13)(14)(15)(16)(17)(18)(19) million days of restricted activity including 5 (4-7) million days of bed disability. Those who were hospitalized accounted for 48 (41-56) per cent of all restricted activity days and 55 (43-67) per cent of all bed disability days.…”

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Head injury with and without hospital admission: comparisons of incidence and short-term disability.

Fife¹

1987

Am J Public Health

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All persons with head injuries (skull fracture or injury to the cranial contents resulting in a physician visit or at least one day of disability), regardless of treatment or hospital admission status, were identified from National Health Interview Survey data for the years 1977-81. Among those who reported such head injuries within the two weeks prior to interview, only 16 per cent were admitted to hospitals. Children, members of low-income families, and those injured at home, school, or in a recreational setting were less likely to be admitted to hospital than others. Among those who sustained a head injury in the previous three months and had some disability from that injury during the two weeks prior to interview, those not admitted to hospital included one-half of those with three to seven days of bed disability and one-third of those with more than seven days of bed disability; and they accounted for one-half of all disability days. These findings indicate that hospital-based head injury incidence data are incomplete and may contain substantial biases.

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“…Patients had a neurologic examination performed by an examiner blinded to their MR imaging characteristics. The Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS) 30 and the 3-second version of the Paced Auditory Serial Addition Task (PASAT) 31,32 scores were used to assess the physical and cognitive ability of patients. Twenty-four healthy volunteers, age-and sex-matched to the patient group, were recruited and scanned by using the same protocol.…”

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Thalamic Involvement and Its Impact on Clinical Disability in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis: A Diffusion Tensor Imaging Study at 3T

Tovar‐Moll

Evangelou

Chiu

et al. 2009

AJNR Am J Neuroradiol

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Memory and information processing capacity after closed head injury.

Cited by 258 publications

References 9 publications

The Adaptive Digit Ordering Test Clinical application, reliability, and validity of a verbal working memory test

The Adaptive Digit Ordering Test Clinical application, reliability, and validity of a verbal working memory test

Head injury with and without hospital admission: comparisons of incidence and short-term disability.

Thalamic Involvement and Its Impact on Clinical Disability in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis: A Diffusion Tensor Imaging Study at 3T

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