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Naturalistic action impairments in dementiaTania Giovannetti
Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute, Philadelphia, PA 19141, USA
Neuropsychologia 40:1220-32. 2002..Taken together, the present findings are inconsistent with semantic and executive accounts, but support the limited-capacity resource theory of naturalistic action impairment...- Awareness of naturalistic action errors in dementiaTania Giovannetti
Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19141, USA
J Int Neuropsychol Soc 8:633-44. 2002..Rather, direct assessment of error detection and correction may provide novel information about behavioral monitoring that can not be extrapolated from measures of dementia severity or traditional neuropsychological assessment... - Category fluency in first-episode schizophreniaTania Giovannetti
Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19141, USA
J Int Neuropsychol Soc 9:384-93. 2003..e., semantic search/access, response monitoring) or global cognitive impairment... 
Verbal serial list learning in mild cognitive impairment: a profile analysis of interference, forgetting, and errorsDavid J Libon
Department of Neurology, Drexel University, College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19013, USA
J Int Neuropsychol Soc 17:905-14. 2011..These data suggest the existence of distinct memory impairments in MCI and caution against the routine use of a single memory test score to operationally define MCI...- Dysexecutive functioning in mild cognitive impairment: derailment in temporal gradientsJoel Eppig
Department of Neurology, Drexel University, College of Medicine, 245 North 15th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102, USA
J Int Neuropsychol Soc 18:20-8. 2012..These data suggest impaired temporal gradients may provide a useful heuristic for understanding dysexecutive impairment in MCI... - Environmental adaptations improve everyday action performance in Alzheimer's disease: empirical support from performance-based assessmentTania Giovannetti
Psychology Department, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA
Neuropsychology 21:448-57. 2007..Thus, environmental adaptations improved everyday performance in AD by facilitating task accomplishment, object selection, and task-congruent actions... 
Target-related distractors disrupt object selection in everyday action: evidence from participants with dementiaTania Giovannetti
Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, USA
J Int Neuropsychol Soc 16:484-94. 2010..26; p > .05 for both). In summary, distractors that were similar to targets elicited significant interference effects circumscribed to object selection...- Error detection and correction patterns in dementia: a breakdown of error monitoring processes and their neuropsychological correlatesBrianne Magouirk Bettcher
Psychology Department, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, USA
J Int Neuropsychol Soc 14:199-208. 2008..The results specify the error monitoring deficits in AD and VaD and have implications for improving functional abilities in dementia... - The influence of personal familiarity on object naming, knowledge, and use in dementiaTania Giovannetti
Temple University, Psychology Department, Weiss Hall, 1701 N 13th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA
Arch Clin Neuropsychol 21:607-14. 2006..4, p=.03) for personal objects. Thus, the personal object advantage was observed for script/semantic knowledge and movement sequences, and should be considered in residential planning for various dementia patients... - The impact of goal cues on everyday action performance in dementiaLaura Brennan
Psychology Department, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA
Neuropsychol Rehabil 19:562-82. 2009..Therefore, although statistically significant, we concluded that the goal cues did not meaningfully or clinically improve everyday functioning... - Coffee with jelly or unbuttered toast: commissions and omissions are dissociable aspects of everyday action impairment in Alzheimer's diseaseTania Giovannetti
Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Neuropsychology 22:235-45. 2008.... - Syntactic comprehension deficits are associated with MRI white matter alterations in dementiaTania Giovannetti
Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, USA
J Int Neuropsychol Soc 14:542-51. 2008..In conclusion, greater subcortical WMA and executive deficits are associated with greater difficulties in syntactic comprehension in individuals with mild dementia... - Characterization of everyday functioning in mild cognitive impairment: a direct assessment approachTania Giovannetti
Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA
Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord 25:359-65. 2008..To evaluate the degree and pattern of functional difficulties in mild cognitive impairment (MCI) via direct observation of everyday task performance... - Everyday action in dementia: evidence for differential deficits in Alzheimer's disease versus subcortical vascular dementiaTania Giovannetti
Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, USA
J Int Neuropsychol Soc 12:45-53. 2006..In AD, everyday action may be negatively influenced by episodic memory failures. Thus, dementia diagnosis has relevance to everyday function... - The heterogeneity of mild cognitive impairment: a neuropsychological analysisDavid J Libon
Department of Neurology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19102, USA
J Int Neuropsychol Soc 16:84-93. 2010..In summary, multi-domain MCI is quite common. These data suggest that MCI is a highly nuanced and complex clinical entity... - Everyday action impairment in Parkinson's disease dementiaTania Giovannetti
Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, USA
J Int Neuropsychol Soc 18:787-98. 2012..jins, 2012, 18, 1-12)... - Everyday action planning in schizophreniaColette Seter
Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA
Neuropsychol Rehabil 21:224-49. 2011..Together these findings suggest that rehabilitation strategies that emphasise both planning time and planning behaviours may facilitate everyday functioning in people with schizophrenia... - The importance of multiple assessments of object knowledge in semantic dementia: the case of the familiar objects taskEvangelia G Chrysikou
Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104 6241, USA
Neurocase 17:57-75. 2011..We discuss different factors that may account for these findings, as well as their implications for research on SD... - Linking MRI hyperintensities with patterns of neuropsychological impairment: evidence for a threshold effectDavid J Libon
Department of Neurology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Mail Stop 423, 245 North 15th St, Philadelphia, PA 19102, USA
Stroke 39:806-13. 2008..The purpose of this study is to ascertain the threshold of MRI-LA as measured with a visual rating scale needed to induce specific patterns of neuropsychological impairment associated with dementia... - Everyday action in schizophrenia: performance patterns and underlying cognitive mechanismsRachel K Kessler
Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA
Neuropsychology 21:439-47. 2007..The distinct performance pattern demonstrated by individuals with schizophrenia reflects specific deficits in executive function... - From cognitive neuroscience to geriatric neuropsychology: what do current conceptualizations of the action error handling process mean for older adults?Brianne Magouirk Bettcher
Psychology Department, Temple University, Weiss Hall, 1701 N 13th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA
Neuropsychol Rev 19:64-84. 2009..The clinical implications of our current knowledge are discussed, and directions for future neuropsychological research are offered... - The Coffee Challenge: a new method for the study of everyday action errorsTania Giovannetti
Temple University, Department of Psychology, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA
J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 29:690-705. 2007..Errors increased significantly, but performance was not qualitatively different from baseline. The results shed light on action impairments in patient populations and validate the CC as a promising new tool for future studies... - Reduced endogenous control in alien hand syndrome: evidence from naturalistic actionTania Giovannetti
Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Neuropsychologia 43:75-88. 2005..These data provide experimental support for previous anecdotal observations about AH behavior in naturalistic settings, and are consistent with a unilateral defect in endogenous control... - Empirically defined patterns of executive function deficits in schizophrenia and their relation to everyday functioning: a person-centered approachMary Iampietro
Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA
Clin Neuropsychol 26:1166-85. 2012..In sum, people with SZ demonstrate variable patterns of EF deficits, and distinct aspects of these EF deficit patterns (i.e., poor mental control abilities) may be associated with everyday functioning capabilities... - Cerebrovascular disease and cognition in older adultsGregory A Seidel
Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Curr Top Behav Neurosci 10:213-41. 2012.... - The neuropsychological profile of alcohol-related dementia suggests cortical and subcortical pathologyKara S Schmidt
Center for Aging, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Stratford, NJ 08084, USA
Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord 20:286-91. 2005..This pattern of performance suggests that long-term alcohol abuse, in comparison to AD and VaD, may be associated with both cortical and subcortical neuropathology... - Object perception impairments predict instrumental activities of daily living dependence in Alzheimer's diseaseAngela L Jefferson
Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadellphia, PA, USA
J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 28:884-97. 2006..When considering multiple cognitive components simultaneously, object perception and the integrity of the inferotemporal cortex is important in the completion of functional abilities in general and IADLs in particular among AD patients... - From Binswanger's disease to leuokoaraiosis: what we have learned about subcortical vascular dementiaDavid J Libon
Center for Aging, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey School of Osteopathic Medicine, Suite 1800, 42 East Laurel Rd, Stratford, NJ, 08084, USA
Clin Neuropsychol 18:83-100. 2004..We discuss questions and issues about vascular dementia that deserve further consideration and study... - Neurocognitive correlates of response to treatment in formal thought disorder in patients with first-episode schizophreniaRita Z Goldstein
Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA
Neuropsychiatry Neuropsychol Behav Neurol 15:88-98. 2002..To examine the independent contribution of executive versus semantic function to improvement in formal thought disorder after initial stabilization in a first-episode sample...