George J Demakis

Summary

Affiliation: University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Motor and cognitive sequelae of unilateral pallidotomy in intractable Parkinson's Disease: electronic measurement of motor steadiness is a useful outcome measure
    George J Demakis
    Elmhurst College, Elmhurst, IL 60126, USA
    J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 24:655-63. 2002
  2. ncbi Meta-analysis in neuropsychology: basic approaches, findings, and applications
    George J Demakis
    Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC 28223 0001, USA
    Clin Neuropsychol 20:10-26. 2006
  3. ncbi Potential neuropsychological profiles in welders occupationally exposed to manganese: an examination of effect size patterns
    Martin L Rohling
    Depaertment of Psychology, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL 36688 0002, USA
    J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 29:813-22. 2007
  4. ncbi A meta-analytic review of the sensitivity of the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test to frontal and lateralized frontal brain damage
    George J Demakis
    Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 28223 0001, USA
    Neuropsychology 17:255-64. 2003
  5. ncbi Qualitative analysis of verbal fluency before and after unilateral pallidotomy
    George J Demakis
    Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC 28223 0001, USA
    Clin Neuropsychol 17:322-30. 2003
  6. ncbi Frontal lobe damage and tests of executive processing: a meta-analysis of the category test, stroop test, and trail-making test
    George J Demakis
    Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 9201 University City Boulevard, Charlotte, NC 28223 0001, USA
    J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 26:441-50. 2004
  7. ncbi Application of clinically-derived malingering cutoffs on the California Verbal Learning Test and the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Test-Revised to an analog malingering study
    George J Demakis
    Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC 28223 0001, USA
    Appl Neuropsychol 11:222-8. 2004
  8. ncbi Meta-analysis in neuropsychology: an introduction
    George J Demakis
    Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC 28223 0001, USA
    Clin Neuropsychol 20:5-9. 2006
  9. ncbi The Personality Assessment Inventory in individuals with traumatic brain injury
    George J Demakis
    University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 9201 University City Boulevard, Charlotte, NC 28223 0001, United States
    Arch Clin Neuropsychol 22:123-30. 2007
  10. ncbi Rated cognition in nursing home residents with multiple sclerosis: cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses
    George J Demakis
    Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, NC 28223 0001, USA
    Disabil Rehabil 32:1438-46. 2010

Detail Information

Publications19

  1. ncbi Motor and cognitive sequelae of unilateral pallidotomy in intractable Parkinson's Disease: electronic measurement of motor steadiness is a useful outcome measure
    George J Demakis
    Elmhurst College, Elmhurst, IL 60126, USA
    J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 24:655-63. 2002
    ..This decline is discussed in terms of evidence that suggests that the basal ganglia consist of several separate, but parallel circuits, some of which are important for cognition...
  2. ncbi Meta-analysis in neuropsychology: basic approaches, findings, and applications
    George J Demakis
    Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC 28223 0001, USA
    Clin Neuropsychol 20:10-26. 2006
    ..Throughout, illustrative examples are developed and references are made to the practice of clinical neuropsychology...
  3. ncbi Potential neuropsychological profiles in welders occupationally exposed to manganese: an examination of effect size patterns
    Martin L Rohling
    Depaertment of Psychology, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL 36688 0002, USA
    J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 29:813-22. 2007
    ..Taken together, these articles do not support the claim that chronic manganese exposure in welders results in a specific and identified pattern of neuropsychological impairment...
  4. ncbi A meta-analytic review of the sensitivity of the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test to frontal and lateralized frontal brain damage
    George J Demakis
    Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 28223 0001, USA
    Neuropsychology 17:255-64. 2003
    ..Though this study indicates that the WCST is sensitive to frontal lobe damage, caveats are discussed...
  5. ncbi Qualitative analysis of verbal fluency before and after unilateral pallidotomy
    George J Demakis
    Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC 28223 0001, USA
    Clin Neuropsychol 17:322-30. 2003
    ..These correlational analyses challenge the specificity of the switching variable and, more broadly, the validity of these qualitative measures of verbal fluency...
  6. ncbi Frontal lobe damage and tests of executive processing: a meta-analysis of the category test, stroop test, and trail-making test
    George J Demakis
    Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 9201 University City Boulevard, Charlotte, NC 28223 0001, USA
    J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 26:441-50. 2004
    ..The challenges of research on assessment of frontal lobe functioning are discussed and new developments in this area are highlighted...
  7. ncbi Application of clinically-derived malingering cutoffs on the California Verbal Learning Test and the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Test-Revised to an analog malingering study
    George J Demakis
    Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC 28223 0001, USA
    Appl Neuropsychol 11:222-8. 2004
    ..Reasons for this pattern of findings are discussed, as are implications of the similarity between clinical and analog studies of malingering...
  8. ncbi Meta-analysis in neuropsychology: an introduction
    George J Demakis
    Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC 28223 0001, USA
    Clin Neuropsychol 20:5-9. 2006
    ..Together these articles provide a user-friendly introduction to meta-analysis in neuropsychology and are designed to assist the clinician in using and applying findings from these studies to their own research and/or clinical work...
  9. ncbi The Personality Assessment Inventory in individuals with traumatic brain injury
    George J Demakis
    University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 9201 University City Boulevard, Charlotte, NC 28223 0001, United States
    Arch Clin Neuropsychol 22:123-30. 2007
    ..The above findings are compared with the previous literature on psychopathology in TBI, particularly in regards to the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2), as well as previous psychometric research on the PAI...
  10. ncbi Rated cognition in nursing home residents with multiple sclerosis: cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses
    George J Demakis
    Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, NC 28223 0001, USA
    Disabil Rehabil 32:1438-46. 2010
    ..To examine cognitive change in nursing home residents with multiple sclerosis (MS) over the first year of a nursing home stay and to predict cognition functioning in these residents at admission and the 1-year annual assessment...
  11. ncbi Bowden, shores, & Mathias (2006): failure to replicate or just failure to notice. Does effort still account for more variance in neuropsychological test scores than TBI severity?
    Martin L Rohling
    Department of Psychology, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL 36688 0002, USA
    Clin Neuropsychol 24:119-36. 2010
    ..g., years of education). These findings challenge the conclusions offered by Bowden and colleagues (2006)...
  12. ncbi Untreated mild traumatic brain injury in a young adult population
    George J Demakis
    Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina Charlotte, Charlotte, NC 28223, USA
    Arch Clin Neuropsychol 25:191-6. 2010
    ..Findings are discussed in terms of research on recovery from mild TBI...
  13. ncbi Prediction of depression and anxiety 1 year after moderate-severe traumatic brain injury
    George J Demakis
    Psychology Department, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 9201 University City Blvd, Charlotte, NC 28223 0001, USA
    Appl Neuropsychol 17:183-9. 2010
    ..Such seemingly paradoxical findings are discussed in terms of anosognosia or poor awareness of psychological functioning among those with greater disability 1 year after TBI...
  14. ncbi The effect of failure on cognitive and psychological symptom validity tests in litigants with symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder
    George J Demakis
    Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, NC 29223 0001, USA
    Clin Neuropsychol 22:879-95. 2008
    ..Implications of these findings are discussed with regard to the existing literature and the relationship between these two types of symptom validity tests...
  15. ncbi A longitudinal study of cognition in nursing home residents with multiple sclerosis
    George J Demakis
    Psychology Department, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina 28223 0001, USA
    Disabil Rehabil 31:1734-41. 2009
    ..Examine cognitive change in nursing home residents with multiple sclerosis (MS) over the first 4 years of their nursing home stay...
  16. ncbi The neuropsychology of antisocial personality disorder
    Katherine L Fitzgerald
    University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA
    Dis Mon 53:177-83. 2007
    ..Further research is needed to help identify the cause of this disorder so that the most appropriate treatments can be made available to these individuals...
  17. ncbi The neuropsychology of Parkinson's disease
    George J Demakis
    University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA
    Dis Mon 53:152-5. 2007
  18. ncbi A meta-analysis of the neuropsychological effects of occupational exposure to mercury
    Martin L Rohling
    Department of Psychology, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL 36688 0002, USA
    Clin Neuropsychol 20:108-32. 2006
    ..The weighted study-mean effect size suggests that the prevalence of neuropsychological deficits due to occupational exposure to mercury is small and difficult to detect on an individual case-by-case basis...
  19. ncbi The neuropsychology of migraine
    Nandini Ravishankar
    University of North Carolina, USA
    Dis Mon 53:156-61. 2007
    ..This review assesses the neuropsychological aspects of the complex malady that is migraine...