Neuropsychological assessments and psychotherapeutic services in Veterans with multiple sclerosis: Rates of utilization and their associations with socio-demographics and clinical characteristics using Veterans Health Administration-based data.

Background: As cognitive, emotional, and health-related behavioral issues are prevalent among persons with multiple sclerosis (MS), mental health services are a valuable component of comprehensive care. However, it is unknown how many participate in neuropsychological and psychotherapeutic services, and whether the presence of certain co-occurring conditions increase service use. This study aimed to examine the frequency and associated factors (e.

What happens when we forget our own narrative: Transgender dementia case study.

Objective: Neuropsychological evaluations in a geriatric population have an assortment of challenges due to increased risk in the population for chronic/acute medical conditions, varied psychiatric disorders, and chronic negative lifestyle behaviors, all which impact one's cognitive functioning. One relatively new challenge is conducting cognitive evaluations within an elderly transgender population. There is a considerable lack of specific normative data in neuropsychological evaluations for transgender individuals due to the prevalence of binary gender categorization in current scoring protocols.

A Comparison of Veterans with Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, with Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and with Both Disorders: Understanding Multimorbidity.

Introduction: Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are common military service-related conditions diagnosed both singly and together in veterans returning from recent military conflicts overseas. The impact of these disorders in real-world Veterans Health Administration practice has not been studied extensively, and few studies have examined the association of these disorders both by themselves and together with sociodemographic characteristics, psychiatric and medical comorbidities, health service utilization, and psychotropic medication fills. This study aims to add to the broader study of multimorbidity and the impact it has on patient care.

Clinical utility of the memory complaints inventory to detect invalid test performance.

Objective: This investigation was designed to examine the classification statistics of Memory Complaints Inventory (MCI) scores relative to the Medical Symptom Validity Test (MSVT) and the Non-Verbal Medical Symptom Validity Test (NV-MSVT), as well as various validity scales on the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI) and Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 Restructured Form(MMPI-2-RF).

Method: The sample consisted of 339 active duty service members with a history of concussion who completed performance validity tests (PVTs), symptom validity tests (SVTs), and the MCI.

Results: Those who failed the MSVT and NV-MSVT had significantly higher scores across all MCI scales.

Using multiple daily pain ratings to improve reliability and assay sensitivity: how many is enough?

Unlabelled: The Initiative for Methods, Measurement, and Pain Assessment in Clinical Trials (IMMPACT) has reported diminished assay sensitivity in pain treatment trials and recommended investigation of the causes. Specific recommendations included examination of outcome measure reliability and lengthening the baseline measurement period to allow more measurements to be collected. This secondary data analysis evaluated the minimum number of daily pain intensity ratings required to obtain a reliability of at least .

Indications for neuropsychological assessment.

A neuropsychological evaluation can help in narrowing the differential diagnosis of cognitive dysfunction, choosing treatments, and evaluating the efficacy of an intervention on an ongoing basis. In patients with documented neurologic disorders, information from neuropsychological assessment can define the patient's functional limitations or residual cognitive strengths. Proper use of neuropsychological assessment can improve the quality of care.

The effects of emotion on memory: an investigation of attentional bias.

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effects of emotion on memory. It has been theorized that an attentional bias for emotional stimuli is a component of a variety of anxiety disorders. Previous tasks used to investigate this process, such as the modified Stroop task, may have contained confounds that limit conclusions that can be drawn.

Comparison of seven-subtest and Satz-Mogel short forms of the WAIS-III.

Intellectual functioning remains an important domain of functioning to be measured. To reduce the lengthy administration time, numerous short forms of the WAIS-III have been devised. The present study aimed to compare two methods of applying short forms of the WAIS-III within a clinical population.