Examining the relationship between cognition and driving performance in multiple sclerosis.

Objective: To identify cognitive predictors of driving performance after multiple sclerosis (MS).

Design: Prospective design examining predictive value of cognitive measures on driving performance.

Setting: All data were collected in an outpatient research setting and an outpatient driver rehabilitation program.

Environmental adaptations improve everyday action performance in Alzheimer's disease: empirical support from performance-based assessment.

Neuropsychologists often recommend that patients with dementia and their caregivers use environmental adaptations to improve everyday functioning. Although these recommendations are intuitive (e.g.

The influence of personal familiarity on object naming, knowledge, and use in dementia.

Reports of semantic dementia patients have shown more accurate identification and use for personal objects than unfamiliar analogs of the same objects (e.g., personal comb versus experimenter's comb) [Bozeat, S.

Everyday action in dementia: evidence for differential deficits in Alzheimer's disease versus subcortical vascular dementia.

The relationship between dementia diagnosis and everyday action (e.g., meal preparation, grooming) is not well understood.

The neuropsychological profile of alcohol-related dementia suggests cortical and subcortical pathology.

The neuropathology associated with chronic alcohol abuse varies across studies, though research suggests generalized reductions in cortical and subcortical grey and white matter. Neuropsychological findings also differ within the literature. The inconsistent findings with respect to the neuropathology and neurobehavior of patients with histories of alcohol abuse may be due, at least in part, to differing nosology and the highly variable inclusion/exclusion criteria employed by researchers.