Behavioural Assessment of the Dysexecutive Syndrome
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Assessments are carried out in order to answer questions. Consequently, the nature of the question determines the assessment procedure. So we would use different tests and procedures for testing out a theoretical model than we would for trying to predict the likelihood of successful return to work for a brain-injured patient. An example of the former is the work of Baddeley, Logie, Bressi, Della Sala, and Spinnler (1986), who were trying to support or refute their hypothesis that patients with Alzheimer’s disease had a deficit in the central executive component of the working memory model (Baddeley & Hitch, 1974). An example of the latter is Shallice and Burgess’s (1991) six elements test which requires participants to plan and organise their activity over a 15-minute period while following certain rules. Mayes (1986) discusses the different concerns of researchers and clinicians with regard to memory assessments but his views are equally relevant to assessments of executive functioning. When thinking about frontal lobe or executive functioning clinicians are likely to be concerned with answering such questions as: 1. Does this person have cognitive impairments that are typically associated with the Dysexecutive syndrome (DES)?
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“…by the Intra/Extradimensional shifting task (Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery, CANTAB®) [Cognitive assessment software] 2018), Key search task and Zoo map task (both part of the Behavioural Assessment of the Dysexecutive Syndrome battery; Wilson et al. 1996; Emslie et al. 2003).”
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- Authors
- Wilson, B. A., Evans, J. J., Alderman, N., Burgess, P. W., & Emslie, H.
- Venue
- Methodology Of Frontal And Executive Function
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Published
- 2004-08-02
- Pages
- 240-251
- OpenAlex
- W2252383517
- Cited by
- 1,149
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- FWCI
- 162.70
- Type
- book chapter
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Routledge eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Cognitive Functions and Memory
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Historical and Modern Theater Studies
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Keywords
- dysexecutive syndrome, executive function, frontal lobe dysfunction, cognitive assessment, working memory, central executive, brain injury, return to work, memory assessment
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