Faculty Bibliography

Researchers disagree as to whether Lewy body disease (LBD) constitutes a variant of Alzheimer's (AD) or Parkinson's disease (PD), or alternatively, whether it is an independent disease process. The neuropathological, genetic, and clinical characteristics of LBD are reviewed and compared to those of AD and PD. Data for 150 cases of LBD reported in the literature were compiled and grouped according to neuropathological status. Patients with pure LBD (with limited or no concurrent AD pathology) tend to present at a younger age with extrapyramidal signs followed by dementia, whereas patients with mixed LBD-AD (concurrent LB and AD pathology) are somewhat older and tend to present with dementia. The cognitive profile of LBD patients, and the relationships among LBD, AD, and PD remain unclear due to methodological limitations and the paucity of studies comparing the groups directly

The development of measures that are sensitive to dissimulated memory impairment is a major problem currently facing clinical neuropsychology. The most commonly used measures to detect malingered amnesia include the Symptom Validity Procedure (SVP) and the Rey 15-Item Memory Test (RMT-15). The major limitation of such measures is that they are essentially atheoretical. Few studies have employed an approach that attempts to capitalize on the power provided by theory in developing predictions for dissimulators' memory performance. The present study applied interference theory derived from the cognitive psychology literature to differentiate the memory performance of dissimulators from closed head-injured (CHI) patients. Hypotheses based on interference theory were generated regarding the effects of proactive interference (PI) on list recall. It was expected that simulators would demonstrate neither a build up of

Examined the reliabilities and intercorrelations of the Inventory of Learning Processes using a sample of 129 undergraduates. A model of student learning based on the results of this study argues that the 2 major routes to academic achievement are reflective processing (RP) and agentic processing (AP)