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| Jennifer J VasterlingSummaryAffiliation: Tulane University Country: USA Publications
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Attention, learning, and memory performances and intellectual resources in Vietnam veterans: PTSD and no disorder comparisonsJennifer J Vasterling
Mental Health Service Line, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, New Orleans, Louisiana 70112, USA
Neuropsychology 16:5-14. 2002..Results suggested that although intellectual resources may constitute a vulnerability-protective factor for PTSD development, PTSD was associated with cognitive impairment independent of intellectual functioning...- Olfactory functioning in Gulf War-era veterans: relationships to war-zone duty, self-reported hazards exposures, and psychological distressJennifer J Vasterling
Mental Health Service Line, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, New Orleans, Louisiana 70112, USA
J Int Neuropsychol Soc 9:407-18. 2003..e., olfactory) or cognitive deficits are related to war-zone participation but do underscore the increasingly demonstrated association between self-reported health concerns and symptoms of emotional distress... - Global-local visual processing in posttraumatic stress disorderJennifer J Vasterling
Veterans Affairs Medical Center, New Orleans, Louisiana 70112, USA
J Int Neuropsychol Soc 10:709-18. 2004..Findings provide partial support for the hypothesis that PTSD may be associated with a functional cerebral asymmetry favoring the right hemisphere... - Mental health of US Gulf War veterans 10 years after the warRosemary Toomey
Toomey, Psychology Department, Boston University, 648 Beacon Street, 6th Floor, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Br J Psychiatry 190:385-93. 2007..Gulf War veterans reported multiple psychological symptoms immediately after the war; the temporal course of these symptoms remains unclear... - Neuropsychological outcomes of army personnel following deployment to the Iraq warJennifer J Vasterling
Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System and Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans 70112, USA
JAMA 296:519-29. 2006..Previous studies have not conducted objective neuropsychological assessments both before and after a major war-zone deployment... 
The impact of the 1991 Gulf War on the mind and brain: findings from neuropsychological and neuroimaging researchJennifer J Vasterling
New Orleans VA Medical Center, LA 70112, USA
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 361:593-604. 2006..Therefore, research addressing clinical management of GW veterans with neuropsychological dysfunction and neuroimaging abnormalities may prove more fruitful than exclusive focus on aetiology...- The Neurocognition Deployment Health Study: a prospective cohort study of Army SoldiersJennifer J Vasterling
Veterans Affairs Medical Center, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA
Mil Med 171:253-60. 2006..Findings should have the potential to delineate neuropsychological outcomes related to combat theater deployment and to identify potential risk and protective factors related to health outcomes... - Test of memory malingering (TOMM) trial 1 as a screening measure for insufficient effortSid E O'Bryant
New Orleans VA Medical Center, New Orleans, LA, USA
Clin Neuropsychol 21:511-21. 2007..Diagnostic accuracy estimates are presented for a range of base rates. The need for more comprehensive SVT assessment in most clinical and forensic situation is discussed... - Early symptom predictors of chronic distress in Gulf War veteransKarin E Thompson
Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Mental Health Service Line, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA
J Nerv Ment Dis 192:146-52. 2004..Findings highlight the importance of targeting early emotional numbing and hyperarousal symptom clusters to reduce longer-term psychological distress... - Suppression of attentional bias in PTSDJoseph I Constans
Mental Health Service, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and Department of Psychiatry and Neurology, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA 70112 1262, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 113:315-23. 2004..Potential theoretical explanations of the findings are discussed... - Neuropsychological screening for cognitive impairment using computer-assisted tasksRoberta F White
VA Boston Healthcare System and Boston University, USA
Assessment 10:86-101. 2003..Sensitivity and specificity for the least random classification procedure were 0.87 and 0.67, respectively. The results suggest that computer-assisted screening methods are a promising means of triaging patients... - Cognitive components of deficit awareness in Alzheimer's diseaseLisa M Duke
Mental Health Service Line, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Neuropsychology 16:359-69. 2002..AD patients may display intact immediate awareness of memory dysfunction but fail to incorporate incidents of memory failure into generalized self-belief systems... - Interrater reliability of neuropsychological diagnoses: a Department of Veterans Affairs cooperative studyRoberta F White
VA Medical Center, Boston University, MA 02310, USA
J Int Neuropsychol Soc 8:555-65. 2002..44 +/- s.e.(kappa) = .029]. These levels of reliability are comparable to those found for other psychiatric and neurologic specialties and for medical diagnoses made by other health care disciplines... - PTSD symptoms, life events, and unit cohesion in U.S. soldiers: baseline findings from the neurocognition deployment health studyKevin Brailey
Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System and Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA
J Trauma Stress 20:495-503. 2007..These symptoms may serve as vulnerabilities that could potentially be activated by subsequent war-zone deployment. Higher predeployment unit cohesion levels appear to ameliorate such symptoms, potentially lessening future vulnerability...