Reaction time and brain disease: relations to location, etiology and progression of cerebral dysfunction
| Autor: | H. Hartelius, P. Elsass |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
| Předmět: |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Pathology Adolescent Intelligence Neurocognitive Disorders Computed tomography Neuropsychological Tests Internal medicine Reaction Time medicine Continuous reaction Humans Psychological testing Dominance Cerebral Cerebral dysfunction Aged Brain Diseases Brain Mapping medicine.diagnostic_test Brain Neoplasms Intellectual impairment Neuropsychology General Medicine Middle Aged Brain disease Cerebrovascular Disorders Neurology Cardiology Etiology Brain Damage Chronic Female Neurology (clinical) Tomography X-Ray Computed Psychology Psychomotor Performance |
| Zdroj: | Acta Neurologica Scandinavica. 71:11-19 |
| ISSN: | 0001-6314 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/j.1600-0404.1985.tb03160.x |
| Popis: | – Using the results from 485 patients with various forms of cerebral dysfunctions and from 60 hospitalized controls, it was shown that measurement of continuous reaction times (CRT) is sensitive to cerebral lesions. Reaction times were more impaired by progressive than by non-progressive brain diseases. The test did not distinguish between patients with right- or left-hemisphere lesions and was not influenced either by etiology, chronicity, age or sex. Our conclusion is that CRT is useful as a “screening” test for the presence of cerebral dysfunction and is especially sensitive to progressive diseases. Its discrimination power is equivalent to more sophisticated and complex psychological tests. |
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