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Estimation Of Premorbid Intelligence: A Combined Demographic And Psychometric Approach., Sandra Cook Friedberg
Estimation Of Premorbid Intelligence: A Combined Demographic And Psychometric Approach., Sandra Cook Friedberg
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
A combined demographic and present abilities approach to estimate premorbid intellectual functioning was developed and cross validated on unimpaired and closed head injured subjects. The non-clinical sample included 75 non-neurologically impaired individuals divided into two groups. The development sample (n = 50) was used to generate linear regression equations to estimate WAIS-R IQs from the estimated Barona IQ score (Barona, Reynolds, & Chastain, 1984) plus error score on the National Adult Reading Test (NART; Nelson, 1982). The cross-validation sample (n = 25) were individually matched to the clinical subjects on age, education, gender, and race variables. The clinical sample included …
A Comparison Of Verbal And Nonverbal Relaxation Induction Techniques In Neurologically Impaired Rehabilitation Patients., Warren Turner Jackson Iii
A Comparison Of Verbal And Nonverbal Relaxation Induction Techniques In Neurologically Impaired Rehabilitation Patients., Warren Turner Jackson Iii
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
This study compared the relaxation responses of neurologically impaired rehabilitation patients during verbal and nonverbal relaxation induction protocols. Seventy inpatients undergoing rehabilitation served as voluntary participants: (a) 20 patients with right-hemisphere brain dysfunction, (b) 20 patients with left-hemisphere dysfunction, and (c) a contrast group of 30 non-neurologically impaired orthopedic/medical patients. In the first phase of the study, all subjects underwent an evaluation that involved completion of screening instruments, self-report measures, and a brief neuropsychological test battery. In the second phase of the study, all subjects underwent two successive relaxation induction protocols: (a) verbal, and (b) nonverbal. Order of presentation was …
The Impact Of Trait Anxiety On Slow-Wave Sleep Processes., Kristi Hulse Fuller
The Impact Of Trait Anxiety On Slow-Wave Sleep Processes., Kristi Hulse Fuller
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
The sleep of high anxiety/worry and low anxiety/worry subjects was studied by means of nocturnal polysomnography. Fifteen high anxiety adult subjects were chosen to represent an analog Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) population, and were selected from among individuals scoring within the upper 20th percentile on the trait portion of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) and the Penn State Worry Questionnaire (PSWQ). Fifteen low anxiety subjects were selected from among individuals scoring within the lower 50th percentile on those measures, and were matched with high anxiety subjects for age, sex, race, and Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) scores. Analysis of polysomnography variables …