Cross-cultural linguistic adaptation and development of three alternate forms of the Free and Cued Selective Reminding Test to the Brazilian context: The role of word familiarity.

In spite of its importance, studies presenting detailed development procedures of alternate forms of verbal memory paradigms remains limited and unclear in terms of word selection criteria, while failing to consider word familiarity factors, despite its crucial role on episodic memory retrieval and encoding mechanisms. The present study aims to present the cross-cultural linguistic adaptation and development procedures of alternate forms of the Free and Cued Selective Reminding Test to the Brazilian context (FCSRT) based on word familiarity. After translation and backtranslation procedures, 231 new words were gathered and underwent a step-by-step familiarity analysis.

Patient Competency Rating Scale-Brazilian Revised Version (PCRS-R-BR): Normative and Psychometric Data in 154 Healthy Individuals.

Patient Competency Rating Scale (PCRS-R-BR) is a clinical tool to evaluate the degree of competence in cognitive skills perceived by patients with brain injuries. However, no studies have investigated the influence of sociodemographic variables on self-report and self-awareness of healthy individuals. This study aimed to (1) present normative data from the PCRS-R-BR in a healthy adult Brazilian sample; and (2) investigate psychometric properties of the scale One hundred and fifty-four adults that were divided in three age groups and two education groups and their informants completed the PCRS-R-BR.

Self-awareness and underestimation of cognitive abilities in patients with adult temporal lobe epilepsy after surgical treatment.

Introduction: Self-awareness of cognitive, emotional, functional, and social performance is critical for compliance with treatment. However, few studies have investigated self-awareness and the associated effects on other cognitive variables in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) after surgical treatment.

Aim: This study was designed to investigate the prevalence of impaired self-awareness (ISA) in patients with TLE who have undergone surgical treatment.

Estimating biological accuracy of DSM for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder based on multivariate analysis for small samples.

Objective: To estimate whether the "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders" (DSM) is biologically accurate for the diagnosis of Attention Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) using a biological-based classifier built by a special method of multivariate analysis of a large dataset of a small sample (much more variables than subjects), holding neurophysiological, behavioral, and psychological variables.

Methods: Twenty typically developing boys and 19 boys diagnosed with ADHD, aged 10-13 years, were examined using the Attentional Network Test (ANT) with recordings of event-related potentials (ERPs). From 774 variables, a reduced number of latent variables (LVs) were extracted with a clustering of variables method (CLV), for further reclassification of subjects using the k-means method.