Diversity and disparities in research studies and career trajectories in psychiatry.

It is well recognized that underrepresented and systematically minoritized groups do not have balanced access to clinical trials as study participants or as research Investigators. However, comprehensive data on the perspective of expert clinicians is largely lacking in the current literature. In this pilot exploration, we collected the opinions of 33 subject matter experts (SME) to identify and explore potential barriers to diversification in clinical trials.

Establishing Equivalence of Electronic Clinician-Reported Outcome Measures.

Background: Electronic administration of clinician-reported outcomes (eClinROs) has advantages over paper-based methods, but the mode of administration change has the potential to affect the validity of the scale. The literature on migration of patient-reported outcomes (PROs) suggests that there are different levels of modification, which necessitate different approaches to demonstrating mode equivalence. However, little has been written on the migration of ClinROs to electronic administration.

Speedy eye movements in multiple sclerosis: association with performance on visual and nonvisual cognitive tests.

Objective: Eye movement difficulties in multiple sclerosis (MS) are common and may influence performance on cognitive tests. The following studies examined associations between a new measure of speedy eye movement speed and visual/nonvisual cognitive tests.

Method: In Experiment 1, MS patients (N = 71) were administered cognitive tests and the Speedy Eyes Test (SET) as a measure of purposeful speedy eye movements under timed conditions.

Visual acuity is associated with performance on visual and non-visual neuropsychological tests in multiple sclerosis.

Both vision and cognitive problems are commonplace in multiple sclerosis. Previous research suggests that MS patients with compromised near vision perform more poorly on visually mediated cognitive tests. Consequently it has been recommended that neuropsychologists who evaluate MS patients with poor corrected near vision should rely primarily on auditory neuropsychological tests.