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| Rebecca E ReadySummaryAffiliation: University of Massachusetts Country: USA Publications
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Validity of informant reports about AD and MCI patients' memoryRebecca E Ready
University Center for Social and Urban Research, University of Pittsburgh, 121 University Place, Room 513, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
Alzheimer Dis Assoc Disord 18:11-6. 2004..Results of this study will aid in selecting informants who can provide the most accurate data about memory disorder patients and will aid in the development of protocols for clinical trials for dementia prevention and treatment...- Factor structure of patient and caregiver ratings on the dementia quality of life instrumentRebecca E Ready
Department of Psychology, The University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
Neuropsychol Dev Cogn B Aging Neuropsychol Cogn 14:144-54. 2007..Thus, data from patients demonstrated a factor structure that was highly consistent with caregiver report data and conformed to meaningful psychological constructs... 
Emotional complexity and emotional well-being in older adults: risks of high neuroticismRebecca E Ready
Department of Psychology, The University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA
Aging Ment Health 16:17-26. 2012..Overall, high neuroticism may be a greater liability for poor emotion outcomes for older and perhaps for midlife adults than for younger persons. Clinical and theoretical implications of this conclusion are discussed...
Apolipoprotein E-e4, processing speed, and white matter volume in a genetically enriched sample of midlife adultsRebecca E Ready
Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 01003, USA
Am J Alzheimers Dis Other Demen 26:463-8. 2011..Lesser white matter volume was significantly correlated with slower processing speed. Processing speed and changes in white matter volume might be indicators of preclinical decline in AD...- Age differences in the organization of emotion knowledge: effects involving valence and time frameRebecca E Ready
University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Department of Psychology, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
Psychol Aging 21:726-36. 2006..The discussion focuses on the manner in which age differences in the schematic organization of emotion knowledge might contribute to age differences in the self-concept, affective processing, and emotional experience... - Integrating patient and informant reports on the Cornell-Brown Quality-of-Life ScaleRebecca E Ready
Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
Am J Alzheimers Dis Other Demen 22:528-34. 2007..This study contributes to a growing line of research that recommends integrating patient and informant perspectives to achieve the most complete assessment of quality of life... - Patient and caregiver quality of life in Huntington's diseaseRebecca E Ready
Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA
Mov Disord 23:721-6. 2008..Clinical implications of results are discussed. Future work is needed because subjective QOL is an important outcome measure in therapeutic trials... - Emotional complexity in younger, midlife, and older adultsRebecca E Ready
Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
Psychol Aging 23:928-33. 2008..Recommendations and considerations for future research are discussed, including, for example, within- versus cross-domain ideas of emotional complexity... - Emotion in younger and older adults: retrospective and prospective associations with sleep and physical activityRebecca E Ready
Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA
Exp Aging Res 35:348-68. 2009..Implications for emotional well-being across the life span are discussed... - Age-group differences in facets of positive and negative affectR E Ready
Department of Psychology, The University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA
Aging Ment Health 15:784-95. 2011..The current study advances this work by comparing the factor structure of facets of PA and NA in older and younger adults using exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses... - Insight and cognitive impairment: effects on quality-of-life reports from mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease patientsRebecca E Ready
University of Massachusetts, Department of Psychology, Amherst 01003, USA
Am J Alzheimers Dis Other Demen 21:242-8. 2006..Thus, even when patient insight is intact, patient reports are unlikely to agree with caregiver reports. Patient and caregiver reports about patient QOL may represent 2 unique, yet potentially valid, perspectives... - Psychiatric patient and informant reports of patient behaviorRebecca E Ready
The University Pittsburgh Medical Center, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
J Pers 73:1-22. 2005..Low patient-informant agreement may be due to informants having relatively less detailed knowledge of patient behavior over time or patients not reporting accurately about certain behaviors... - Factor analysis of the frontal systems behavior scale (FrSBe)Julie C Stout
Department of Psychology, Indiana University, Bloomington 47405 7007, USA
Assessment 10:79-85. 2003..The FrSBe factor structure supports its utility for assessing both the severity of the three frontal syndromes in aggregate and separately... - Emotion and executive functioning: the effect of normal mood states on fluency tasksJanessa O Carvalho
University of Massachusetts, Department of Psychology, Tobin Hall, 135 Hicks Way, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 32:225-30. 2010..Variations in everyday PA may be associated with cognitive performance, whereas greater shifts in NA might be needed to establish associations with executive functioning... - Response bias in "remembering" emotional stimuli: a new perspective on age differencesAycan Kapucu
Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Tobin Hall, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 34:703-11. 2008.... - Correspondence of psychiatric patient and informant ratings of personality traits, temperament, and interpersonal problemsRebecca E Ready
Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, USA
Psychol Assess 14:39-49. 2002..This conclusion runs counter to the intuitively appealing notion that psychopathology has a detrimental effect on self-awareness... - Quality of Life in Prodromal HD: Qualitative Analyses of Discourse from Participants and CompanionsRebecca E Ready
Department of Psychology, The University of Massachusetts, Tobin Hall, 135 Hicks Way, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
Neurol Res Int 2011:958439. 2011..Relationships, employment, and coping with HD reflected both positivity and negativity. Participants and companions spoke of the future with different concerns. Applicability of findings to the clinical management of HD are discussed... - Young adult attitudes about Alzheimer's diseaseTessa S Lundquist
Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA
Am J Alzheimers Dis Other Demen 23:267-73. 2008..Younger persons may realize a greater need to support persons with Alzheimer's disease if they have been personally affected by the disease through a close relationship... - Apathy and executive dysfunction in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer diseaseRebecca E Ready
Brown Medical School Department of Psychiatry, Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island, Medical Rehabilitation, Pawtucket, RI 02860, USA
Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 11:222-8. 2003..Apathy, executive dysfunction, and disinhibition are common in AD, but these behaviors have not been studied in MCI... - Neuropsychological predictors of everyday memory and everyday functioning in patients with mild Alzheimer's diseaseDeborah A Cahn-Weiner
Brown Medical School, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
J Geriatr Psychiatry Neurol 16:84-9. 2003..Helping caregivers distinguish between these two abilities may result in more accurate reporting of patients' impairments... - Quality of life in dementiaRebecca E Ready
Department of Neurology, Memorial Hospital, Pawtucket, RI 02860, USA
Med Health R I 85:216-8. 2002 - Patient versus informant perspectives of Quality of Life in Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer's diseaseRebecca E Ready
Department of Psychiatry, Brown Medical School, Providence, RI, USA
Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 19:256-65. 2004..Furthermore, there is little data to indicate whether or not mildly impaired patients can provide self-report QOL data or if informant reports are needed... - The Cornell-Brown Scale for Quality of Life in dementiaRebecca E Ready
Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown Medical School, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Alzheimer Dis Assoc Disord 16:109-15. 2002..Reliability and validity were not adversely affected by patient cognitive impairment. Thus, preliminary data indicate that the Cornell-Brown Scale for Quality of Life is a brief, easily administered, reliable, and valid measure of QOL... - Prediction of on-road driving performance in patients with early Alzheimer's diseaseLaura B Brown
Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 53:94-8. 2005..Physicians and family members frequently are asked to provide information about driving ability in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD), yet there has been little research on the validity of their assessments of driving performance... - Amnestic behavior in dementia: symptoms to assist in early detection and diagnosisRebecca E Ready
Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown University School of Medicine, Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 51:32-7. 2003..This study evaluated two amnestic behavior changes (repetitive questioning and repetitive actions) to determine their utility in screening for early dementia... - Psychiatric patient- and informant-reported personality: predicting concurrent and future behaviorRebecca E Ready
Brown Medical School, USA
Assessment 9:361-72. 2002..Thus, both patient and informant reports of personality contribute importantly to prediction of behavior, and predictive ability is stable across time...