Practice effects in healthy adults: A longitudinal study on frequent repetitive cognitive testing
Open Access
- 16 September 2010
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in BMC Neuroscience
- Vol. 11 (1), 118
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2202-11-118
Abstract
Cognitive deterioration is a core symptom of many neuropsychiatric disorders and target of increasing significance for novel treatment strategies. Hence, its reliable capture in long-term follow-up studies is prerequisite for recording the natural course of diseases and for estimating potential benefits of therapeutic interventions. Since repeated neuropsychological testing is required for respective longitudinal study designs, occurrence, time pattern and magnitude of practice effects on cognition have to be understood first under healthy good-performance conditions to enable design optimization and result interpretation in disease trials.This publication has 49 references indexed in Scilit:
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