News tagged with psychometric assessment
Declines in other thinking and learning skills may precede memory loss in Alzheimer's disease
Cognitive abilities other than memory, including visuospatial skills needed to perceive relationships between objects, may decline years prior to a clinical diagnosis in patients with Alzheimer's disease, according to a report ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 12, 2009 |
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Designer shortlisted for inventive windscreen design
A Northumbria student’s design for a car windscreen that displays driver information, directions and road conditions has been shortlisted in a national transportation competition.
Nov 02, 2011 |
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With friends like these...
(PhysOrg.com) -- Cambridge researchers have created a website that combines the Facebook profiles of fans of companies and public figures with personality testing to create what they are describing as a “revolutionary” ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Apr 22, 2011 |
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What makes brains of business leaders tick
Ground-breaking research will scan the brains of influential people to explore how they make decisions, using often complex and conflicting information.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 15, 2010 |
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Addiction index updated
The new version of the Addiction Severity Index (ASI) gives health professionals the opportunity to design an integral and personalised plan of assistance for patients suffering disorders due to substance ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 27, 2010 |
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Truthy.indiana.edu to search, identify smear tactics, Twitter-bombs through election runup
Astroturfers, Twitter-bombers and smear campaigners need beware this election season as a group of leading Indiana University information and computer scientists today unleashed Truthy.indiana.edu, a sophisticated ...
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Sep 28, 2010 |
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Detecting depression in caretakers of mentally ill adults
A diagnostic test of eight short questions designed by Jaclene Zauszniewski from the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University can be used to detect depressive thinking patterns that lead to ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 16, 2010 |
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Targeting disease remission has socio-economic benefits over low disease activity
Achieving disease remission in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) provides superior outcomes across measures of socio-economic importance including work productivity and quality of life according to results presented ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jun 19, 2010 |
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It takes only 5 minutes to assess disability in patients with depression
A research team has tested the utility of the short version of WHO-DAS II, a tool to assess within five minutes disability in patients with depression, "which in the case of primary care is even more practicable ...
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Apr 15, 2010 |
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Researchers prove validated instrument to measure AA-related helping
Maria Pagano, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, has established an empirical model to quantify and gauge an alcohol addicts' level of engagement in Alcoholics Anonymous ...
Apr 08, 2010 |
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Researchers develop new scale to measure anxiety outcomes
A new questionnaire and outcomes measurement scale developed by the department of psychiatry at Rhode Island Hospital has proven to be a reliable and valid measure of anxiety. The scale can easily be incorporated into routine ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 09, 2010 |
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