Publications by authors named "Cara L Crook"
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- Suboptimal medication adherence is common among people with epilepsy, with a higher prevalence in racially diverse patients, necessitating a study on their barriers to medication management, negative beliefs about medications, and knowledge gaps.
- A study with 63 predominantly African American and Caribbean American participants identified four major barriers to medication self-management, including inconsistent dosing and a lack of planning for refills.
- Results showed that many participants held negative beliefs about their medications, with poorer self-management linked to stronger feelings that medications are harmful; better acceptance of medication correlated with proper dosing habits.
Research suggests that health locus of control (HLOC) is related to important health and neurocognitive outcomes in people living with HIV. However, the role of ethnicity in these relationships remains poorly understood. This study explored the role of HLOC on neurocognition in a diverse sample of 134 people living with HIV (Latinx: n = 96; non-Latinx White: n = 38) who completed comprehensive neurocognitive evaluations and the Multidimensional HLOC Scale-Form C.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: Depression is common in people living with HIV (PLWH) and can contribute to neurocognitive dysfunction. Depressive symptoms in PLWH are often measured by assessing only cognitive/affective symptoms. Latinx adults, however, often express depressive symptoms in a somatic/functional manner, which is not typically captured in assessments of depression among PLWH.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPeople living with HIV (PLWH) report higher rates of cannabis use than the general population, a trend likely to continue in light of recent policy changes and the reported therapeutic benefits of cannabis for PLWH. Therefore, it is important to better understand cannabis-associated effects on neurocognition, especially as PLWH are at heightened risk for neurocognitive impairment. This study aimed to elucidate the effects of a past cannabis use disorder on current neurocognition in a diverse sample of PLWH.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDepressive Symptoms Contribute to Executive Deficits in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy.
J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci
August 2017
This study examined the contribution of depression to reduced executive functioning in temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) using three groups: TLE only (TLE; N=29), TLE+depression (TLE+DEP) (N=22), and nonneurologic participants with depression (DEP; N=31). Participants completed the Delis-Kaplan Executive Function System. Individuals with TLE performed worse than the DEP group on many tests of executive functions.
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