I’m excited to share that a special issue of the Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology (www.tandfonline.com/toc/ncen20/4...) focused on doctoral training in clinical neuropsychology is now available.
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Awesome! Way to go, Jared!
My post-doc mentor, Jared Benge, published a study featured on CNN about how using technology may reduce risk for dementia: www.cnn.com/2025/04/14/h...
How might AI change our brains?
Neuropsychology's readers were very interested in this question, which was posed in this frequently downloaded 2024 paper from Leon-Dominguez. @apajournals.bsky.social
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Don't think I'd do anything sophisticated in this case, and not sure any direct comparison methods even exist. Would prob begin by comparing FSIQ (what was the diff?) and any shared relevant subtests (BD, Sim, Voc, Cod, Arith). Might start with 1 sd diff threshold as representing potential sig
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Sweet! Downloaded to listen to on flight home! Nice to meet you!!
The authors suggest that some of these former players' problems (including suicidality) may stem from the assumption (in part driven by media coverage and public perception) that they have an untreatable neurodegenerative disease.
Point well taken, Jason. But not sure this is best article to highlight link b/w playing football and long-term brain effects. Lead author is one of the biggest critics of CTE. My takeaway of this study is that while 1/3 of players perceive they have CTE, this doesn't necessarily mean they have it.
Thanks, Andrew! Let me know how it goes!
Haha! My pleasure, Lee! Hope you find the norms useful!
Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions about our study or would like a copy of the paper and/or Excel calculator!
This is the first study that we are aware of that provides norms that directly account for occupational attainment, as assessed by Job Zones, a 5-point classification system developed by the US Dept of Labor. www.onetonline.org/help/online/...
The latter aligns with initiatives by AACN, NAN, and other neuropsychology organizations to research and implement empirically-based and ethically responsible alternatives to using race in neuropsychological norms. abcnews.go.com/US/neuropsyc...
Interestingly, by including measurable social determinants of health like reading ability and occupational attainment in our regression analyses, this reduced the impact of certain other demographic variables such as education and race on cognitive test performance.
We provide convenient look-up tables as well as a handy Excel calculator to generate robust norms for older adults, incorporating a number of demographic variables, including the usual suspects (age, education, sex) but also some new ones.
🚨 Excited to share our new paper where we introduce the Montefiore Einstein Robust Geriatric Normative Project (MERGER-NP) and provide age and demographic norms for the RBANS and select neuropsych tests, including the TMT, BNT, and measures of verbal fluency. academic.oup.com/acn/advance-...
Finally got a chance to listen @andrewk-phd.bsky.social . Great job!! Looking forward to the rest of the series!
I had the pleasure of discussing neuropsychological test interpretation on the NavNeuro podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n.... Hope you’ll check it out! Here are the highlights: 1/n
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New to #bluesky and excited to share a new publication at the interface of my two main clinical interests in neuropsychiatry.
"New Framework for the Continuum of Concussion and Functional Neurological Disorder" with @silverberglab.bsky.social in BJSM. Thread below 🧵
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Grateful to @cnn.com for featuring our #NIA supported work at @uscpsychology.bsky.social linking financial vulnerability in older age and #Alzheimers disease. You can check out the video segment here, which also features my amazing lab running a brain MRI session:
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That said, I think this is something now being considered. @andrewk-phd.bsky.social has maybe done some work in this area with SRB? There's also this recent paper that used advanced regression techniques to account for ceiling effects in MoCA performance/change.
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Certainly not an expert, but my understanding is yes, if someone performs near a test's ceiling, there's little room for improvement or practice effects. RCIs and SRB change formulas don't typically adjust for ceiling effects, leading to underestimated gains or exaggerated declines for high scorers.
Nope. Only a few that I'm aware of. Agree that we need more. I can tell you that one more is (hopefully) coming soon! 😉 What are your thoughts on occupational attainment as a proxy for SES with adults? I like the idea of using ADI as well.
Big fan of this paper—it's a staple in my Norms talk! In theory, don’t demo norms that factor in reading/premorbid ability work similarly? They account for it more when it adds significant variance to cognitive tests and less when it doesn’t.
Def more of a high level concept that doesn't get as much attention as it should. I spend a lot of time on it with my trainees but get the sense I'm in the minority. @andrewk-phd.bsky.social 's paper (cited earlier in this thread) should be required reading for first-year neuropsych grad students
I was hoping you might weigh in. I'm a big fan of that paper and recommend it to all my trainees! Looking forward to the podcast!
Sadly, those norms are no longer commercially available. PAR stopped supporting (and selling) the scoring program earlier this year, and the manual only provides age norms.
