Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status (RBANS): Preliminary Australian normative data

Green, Alisa; Garrick, Thomas; Sheedy, Donna; Blake, Helen L.; Shores, E. Arthur; Harper, Clive

doi:10.1080/00049530701656257

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“…Results of this study are consistent with the finding that after the age of 60 years, the prevalence of cognitive impairment increases significantly with age; cognitive function declines from the age of 50 years and accelerates after 65 years of age . Also consistent with earlier findings, higher education level was negatively associated with cognitive impairment ( P < 0.001, OR = 0.1, 95%CI: 0.06–0.3), indicating that higher education may be a protective factor for cognitive impairment.…”

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Clinical characteristics and quality of life of older adults with cognitive impairment in Macao

Nogueira

Meng

et al. 2018

Psychogeriatrics

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 91%

Clinical characteristics and quality of life of older adults with cognitive impairment in Macao

Nogueira

Meng

et al. 2018

Psychogeriatrics

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“…They also performed better for line orientation, picture naming, semantic fluency and digit span subtests. The largest difference between the two groups occurred on the semantic fluency test where Australian participants scored up to 8 points higher (Green et al 2008).…”

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An Australian Brain Bank: a critical investment with a high return!

Sheedy

Garrick

Dedova

et al. 2008

Cell Tissue Banking

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Research into neuropsychiatric disorders, including alcohol-related problems, is limited in part by the lack of appropriate animal models. However, the development of new technologies in pathology and molecular biology means that many more questions can be addressed using appropriately stored human brain tissues. The New South Wales Tissue Resource Centre (TRC) in the University of Sydney (Australia) is a human brain bank that can provide tissues to the neuroscience research community studying alcohol-related brain disorders, schizophrenia, depression and bipolar disorders. Carefully standardised operational protocols and integrated information systems means that the TRC can provide high quality, accurately characterised, tissues for research. A recent initiative, the pre-mortem donor program called "Using our Brains", encourages individuals without neuropsychiatric illness to register as control donors, a critical group for all research. Community support for this program is strong with over 2,000 people registering their interest. Discussed herein are the protocols pertaining to this multifaceted facility and the benefits of investment, both scientific and financial, to neuroscience researchers and the community at large.

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“…Our results do not suggest that US norms would also perform suboptimally in a more average Australian sample until this has been addressed empirically. Still, accurate neuropsychological classifications of high (or low) functioning individuals may need country-specific norms that correct for performance-based (e.g., reading) estimates of premorbid cognition in addition to the traditional demographic factors as also suggested by other Australian research (Green et al 2008). …”

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HIV-associated neurocognitive disorder in Australia: a case of a high-functioning and optimally treated cohort and implications for international neuroHIV research

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The Australian HIV-infected (HIV+) population is largely comprised of high-functioning men who have sex with men (MSM). Like other English-speaking countries, Australia mostly relies on US neuropsychological normative standards to detect and determine the prevalence of neurological disorders. Whether the US neuropsychological (NP) normative standards are appropriate in Australian HIV+ MSM has not been established. Ninety virally suppressed HIV+ and 49 HIV-uninfected (HIV−) men (respectively 86 and 85 % self-reported MSM; mean age 54 and 56 years, mean premorbid verbal IQ estimate 110 and 111) undertook standard NP testing. The raw neuropsychological data were transformed using the following: (1) US standards as uncorrected scaled scores and demographically corrected T scores (US norms); and (2) z scores (without demographic corrections) derived from Australian comparison group scaled scores (local norms). To determine HIV-associated neurocognitive disorder prevalence, we used a standard definition of impairment based upon a battery-wide summary score: the global deficit score (GDS). Impairment classification (GDS≥0.5) based on the local norms was best at discriminating between the two groups (HIV−=14.3 % vs. HIV+ = 53.3 %; p<0.0001). This definition was significantly associated with age. Impairment classification based on the US norms yielded much lower impairment rate regardless of the HIV status (HIV−=4.1 % vs. HIV+=14.7 %; p= 0.05), but was associated with historical AIDS, and not age. Both types of summary scores were associated with reduced independence in activities of daily living (p≤ 0.03). Accurate neuropsychological classifications of high (or low) functioning individuals may need country-specific norms that correct for performance-based (e.g., reading) estimates of premorbid cognition in addition to the traditional demographic factors.

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Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status (RBANS): Preliminary Australian normative data

Cited by 16 publications

References 39 publications

Clinical characteristics and quality of life of older adults with cognitive impairment in Macao

Clinical characteristics and quality of life of older adults with cognitive impairment in Macao

An Australian Brain Bank: a critical investment with a high return!

HIV-associated neurocognitive disorder in Australia: a case of a high-functioning and optimally treated cohort and implications for international neuroHIV research

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