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DriveABLE was originally developed by Canadian neuropsychologist Allen Dobbs to help guide physicians in making driving-fitness decisions about patients with dementia. In a preliminary two-year study, Dobbs tested the performance of three groups of drivers: Alzheimer's patients, normal 65-and-older people and 30-to-40-year-olds. He found that the cognitively impaired drivers made different kinds of errors from normal drivers--errors that could prove deadly. He then created DriveABLE to help evaluators identify the most dangerous drivers...
...scientist, Nancy Wexler always thought she would want to know. Since watching her mother die in 1978 of Huntington's disease, the 41-year-old Columbia University neuropsychologist has wondered if she too will develop the untreatable and fatal brain disorder. She was all too aware that a child with a Huntington's parent has a 50% chance of contracting the inherited disease, usually between the ages of 35 and 45. Now the answer is hers for the asking, thanks to a complex chromosomal test Wexler herself helped devise...
...positive test result could be, Johns Hopkins, Columbia University and Massachusetts General Hospital are conducting a three-year study to determine the emotional impact of early diagnosis. "We're trying to find out what type of psychological care these people will need," says Jason Brandt, a Johns Hopkins neuropsychologist. "Will their families break up? Will they be unable to concentrate on their jobs...
...Public Defender David G. Twohig, who is representing Cicero, says his client’s planned defense is that he lacked criminal responsibility on account of mental illness. While several psychiatric experts have examined Cicero for the state, deeming him competent to stand trial, Twohig has hired an independent neuropsychologist to help him make the case that Cicero should not be held responsible for his actions on Sept. 19 of last year...
...different sort of complaint came from neuropsychologist Nancy Wexler, whose scientific sleuthing among clusters of families around Venezuela?s Lake Maracaibo afflicted with Huntington?s disease paved the way for the identification of the gene for the fatal ailment and a test for its detection. She noted that treatment for the disease is no better now that it was when her mother died of it in 1978. That?s at least partly because, she said, drug companies aren?t interested in developing ?orphan drugs? for diseases with a relatively low incidence of occurrence. Thus, without the prospect of a cure...