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Cognitive performance predicts treatment decisional abilities in mild to moderate dementiaR J Gurrera
Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, USA
Neurology 66:1367-72. 2006..To examine the contribution of neuropsychological test performance to treatment decision-making capacity in community volunteers with mild to moderate dementia...
The five-factor model in schizotypal personality disorderRonald J Gurrera
Harvard Medical School, Department of Psychiatry, Boston, MA, USA
Schizophr Res 80:243-51. 2005..These findings suggest that gender-associated differences in openness may account for prior inconsistent findings regarding this dimension, and they further underscore the importance of examining gender effects in future studies of SPD...- Personality differences in schizophrenia are related to performance on neuropsychological tasksRonald J Gurrera
VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston and Brockton, Massachusetts 02301, USA
J Nerv Ment Dis 193:714-21. 2005..Longitudinal studies utilizing more comprehensive measures of neurocognitive performance are needed to define further the relationship between neuropsychological function and personality in schizophrenia... - Capacity to consent to treatment: empirical comparison of three instruments in older adults with and without dementiaJennifer Moye
Boston VA Healthcare System, Brockton VA Medical Center, 940 Belmont Street, Brockton, MA 02301, USA
Gerontologist 44:166-75. 2004..The purpose of this study was to compare adults with and without dementia on capacities to consent to treatment as assessed by three instruments... - Agreement between instruments for rating treatment decisional capacityRonald J Gurrera
Mental Health Service, VA Boston Healthcare System, Harvard Medical School Department of Psychiatry, Boston, MA, USA
Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 15:168-73. 2007..The objective of this study was to measure agreement between three treatment decisional capacity assessment instruments in mild to moderate dementia... - Neuropsychological predictors of decision-making capacity over 9 months in mild-to-moderate dementiaJennifer Moye
Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School and Mental Health Service Line, VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA 02301, USA
J Gen Intern Med 21:78-83. 2006..Older adults with dementia may have diminished capacity to make medical treatment decisions... - Empirical advances in the assessment of the capacity to consent to medical treatment: clinical implications and research needsJennifer Moye
Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston VA Healthcare System, MA 02301, USA
Clin Psychol Rev 26:1054-77. 2006.... - Reasoning in the capacity to make medical decisions: the consideration of valuesMichele J Karel
Mental Health Service, VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, USA
J Clin Ethics 21:58-71. 2010..To examine the contribution of "values-based reasoning" in evaluating older adults' capacity to make medical decisions... - Auditory P3 indexes personality traits and cognitive function in healthy men and womenRonald J Gurrera
Harvard Medical School, Department of Psychiatry, Boston MA, USA
Psychiatry Res 133:215-28. 2005..The physiological significance of these relationships is not yet clear, but these results suggest that neural assemblies indexed by P3 may subserve both elemental cognition and healthy personality function... - Association between reduced extraversion and right posterior fusiform gyrus gray matter reduction in chronic schizophreniaToshiaki Onitsuka
Department of Psychiatry, Boston VA Healthcare System-Brockton Division, Harvard Medical School, 940 Belmont St, Brockton, MA 02301, USA
Am J Psychiatry 162:599-601. 2005..CONCLUSIONS: Reduced right posterior fusiform gyrus volume may contribute to disease-related social disturbances, characterized by both low extraversion and reduced sensitivity to human faces... - Episodic memory and neuroimaging of hippocampus and fornix in chronic schizophreniaPaul G Nestor
Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA 02125 3393, USA
Psychiatry Res 155:21-8. 2007..However, increased hippocampal volume correlated, in the negative direction, with lower scores for executive functioning and IQ in the control subset. Implications of these results are discussed... - Neuropsychological disturbance in schizophrenia: a diffusion tensor imaging studyPaul G Nestor
Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA 02125 3393, USA
Neuropsychology 22:246-54. 2008..Reduced white matter of the CB and the UF may each make distinct contributions to neuropsychological disturbance in schizophrenia... - Dissociable contributions of MRI volume reductions of superior temporal and fusiform gyri to symptoms and neuropsychology in schizophreniaPaul G Nestor
Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA 02125 3393, United States
Schizophr Res 91:103-6. 2007..STG and FG volume reductions may each make distinct contributions to symptoms and cognitive deficits of schizophrenia... - Neuropsychological correlates of diffusion tensor imaging in schizophreniaPaul G Nestor
Clinical Neuroscience Division, Laboratory of Neuroscience, Boston Veterans Affairs Health Care System Brockton Division, Brockton, MA 02301, USA
Neuropsychology 18:629-37. 2004..The data suggested abnormal DTI patterns linking declarative-episodic verbal memory deficits to the left UF and executive function deficits to the left CB among patients with schizophrenia... - The uncinate fasciculus and extraversion in schizotypal personality disorder: a diffusion tensor imaging studyRonald J Gurrera
Schizophr Res 90:360-2. 2007