
Antonio Enrique PuenteUniversity of North Carolina Wilmington | UNCW · Department of Psychology
Antonio Enrique Puente
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Objective
Using the Test of Memory Malingering (TOMM), this study seeks to explore the feasibility of a continuous approach to performance validity by simulating experiments using a Bayesian statistical algorithm.
Methodology
A literature review was carried out to conduct statistical analyses from data of two known groups (those putting forth cred...
Research from both Pakistan and the United States shows a relatively higher stigma for mental illness than physical illness. However, research comparing mental and brain illness is limited. Therefore, using an online survey, the present study examined mental and brain illness stigma, discriminatory potential as manifested via social distance, and p...
Objective: Active-duty military personnel in the current wars have experienced unique stressors that deviate from standard PTSD assessment and diagnosis. This situation calls for a refinement of military-related PTSD assessment. To this end, this study assessed the utility of the Trauma Symptom Inventory (TSI) in diagnosing PTSD among active-duty m...
Objective
Acculturation is not thought to reflect one’s brain function; however, numerous studies have shown that less acculturated adults perform worse on neuropsychological tests. This study systematically reviews the effect of acculturation on neuropsychological tests in healthy adults.
Data Selection
This systematic review was registered in Pr...
Objective
Testing of bilingual individuals still poses a challenge among neuropsychologists. Self-reported language proficiency and objective measures differ considerably. Consequently, we present a literature review on the neuropsychological testing of bilinguals and a case study to guide the discussion.
Data Selection
A narrative literature revi...
Objective
Explore internal consistency, concurrent validity, and impact of demographic factors to provide preliminary normative data for a teleneuropsychological (TeleNP) and culturally-sensitive letter fluency (PAN) test based on Benton and Hamsher’s (1976) approach (two easy and one difficult letter) for Spanish-speaking Puerto Ricans.
Method
10...
These survey results provide regular experiences, perceptions,
and encountered challenges with tele-assessment.
Neuropsychologists use performance validity tests (PVT) to detect performance invalidity across various populations. Unexpected scores for normative and clinical populations on PVT performance could invalidate the assessment if the poor performance does not have a reasonable explanation. One of the most well-validated and frequently used PVT is the...
Globalization is making our world increasingly diverse. However, the field of neuropsychological assessment hasn’t addressed this diversity appropriately and people around the world are being assessed with instruments that are not culturally adapted for them. Practitioners are using tests that were originally created for Western culture(s) to evalu...
The accuracy of neuropsychological assessments relies on participants exhibiting their true abilities during administration. The Test of Memory Malingering (TOMM) is a popular performance validity test used to determine whether an individual is providing honest answers. While the TOMM has proven to be highly sensitive to those who are deliberately...
Al leer el presente libro de Homenaje Póstumo usted encontrara el relato de quienes fueron sus compañeros de travesía, sus amigos, sus más cercanos colaboradores, sus estudiantes y jóvenes psicólogos de Latinoamérica que lo leyeron, estudiaron, algunos lo conocieron y otros se inspiraros en sus páginas sin tener el tiempo de llegar a él pese a los...
Objective: The current study aims to assess the relationship among scores on the test of memory malingering (TOMM) and general demographics (age, education, ethnicity, and gender) as well as military-specific variables (Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB), number of deployments, and blasts) using a large military sample.
Method: An a...
Preliminary data suggest that reported family history of dementia (FHD) can negatively affect neuropsychological test performance among Puerto Ricans. FHD as a covariate in normal cognitive aging studies should be considered, even among the young-old adult range. Exploring the impact of +DH on neuropsychological test performance, specifically lette...
The Test of Memory Malingering (TOMM; Tombaugh, 1996) has been widely used to identify the presence of malingering in specific cognitive symptoms in different populations (Martin et al., 2020; Wisdom et al., 2012). However, the unequivocal diagnosis of malingering requires a set of indicators of this tendency during the neuropsychological evaluatio...
Analyze the convergent validity of the TOMM and CVLT in a sample of American war veterans.
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in psychological sequelae in different populations, especially female victims of intimate partner violence (IPV) who are pregnant. Nonetheless, little is known about how IPV events and pregnancy are related to mental health outcomes for pregnant women during the pandemic, when this research took place. 155 pregnan...
Objetivos: el Comité de Práctica Inter Organizacional (IOPC) convocó a un grupo de trabajo para brindar una guía rápida sobre teleneuropsicología (TeleNP) en respuesta a la pandemia de COVID-19. Métodos: un panel colaborativo de expertos de las principales organizaciones profesionales de USA desarrolló una guía provisional para la práctica de neuro...
Objective
The purpose of this study is to investigate the TOMM cutoff scores obtained in a large sample of military personnel. This study examines the traditional scores and proposes potential new ways to classify malingering using confidence intervals.
Method
The TOMM was administered as part of a neuropsychological battery a total of 1110 times,...
INTRO
Complex PTSD (CPTSD) is a more severe type of traumatic stress because, in addition to including the classic symptoms of PTSD, it is
also characterized by Self-Organization symptoms (WHO, 2018).
Research suggests that the severity of the
trauma and how long ago the trauma occurred may also influence the
manifestation of the PTSD symptoms (Bad...
Objectives
This study sought to describe worldwide variations in the use of myocardial perfusion imaging hardware, software, and imaging protocols and their impact on radiation effective dose (ED).
Background
Concerns about long-term effects of ionizing radiation have prompted efforts to identify strategies for dose optimization in myocardial perf...
With over 6,000 languages spoken in the world (Crystal, 1987), acknowledging linguistic and cultural variables is imperative as they impact the understanding of psychological functions. Individually, these variables represent intricate mechanisms, and complexity becomes greater when both culture and language are coalesced and studied together. To m...
Objective
The objective of this study was to identify specific cutoff scores for three commonly used embedded performance validity tests (PVTs) for a Spanish speaking population. Culturally adapted cutoff scores for embedded PVTs were established using an analog study design. In addition, the psychometric properties of these measures when applying...
Background
It had been seven months since the first confirmed case (8th March, 2020) of COVID-19 in Bangladesh and people have now got a more complete picture of the extent of the pandemic. Therefore, it is time to evaluate the effects of COVID-19 on mental health. The current population-based study aimed to assess the prevalence of depression and...
With over 6,000 languages spoken in the world (Crystal, 1987), acknowledging linguistic and cultural variables is imperative as they impact the understanding of psychological functions. Individually, these variables represent intricate mechanisms, and complexity becomes greater when both culture and language are coalesced and studied together. To m...
Objectives
This study sought to establish worldwide and regional diagnostic reference levels (DRLs) and achievable administered activities (AAAs) for single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI).
Background
Reference levels serve as radiation dose benchmarks to compare individual laboratories against aggreg...
Objective
The Inter Organizational Practice Committee (IOPC) convened a workgroup to provide rapid guidance about teleneuropsychology (TeleNP) in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Method
A collaborative panel of experts from major professional organizations developed provisional guidance for neuropsychological practice during the pandemic. The st...
Objective:
The Inter Organizational Practice Committee convened a workgroup to provide rapid guidance about teleneuropsychology (TeleNP) in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Method:
A collaborative panel of experts from major professional organizations developed provisional guidance for neuropsychological practice during the pandemic. The stake...
The use of improvised explosive devices, rocket-propelled grenades, and landmines in recent wars has raised awareness into the effects of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In this study, 893 active duty military personnel were administered a comprehensive evaluation that included extensive premorbid functi...
Presents an obituary for Janet Rogers Matthews (1944-2019). Janet was a tenured psychology faculty at Creighton University before joining the Department of Psychology of Loyola University New Orleans. She remained on their faculty for 30 years, until 2014, when she became professor emerita. Janet described herself as "an APA junky." She served on t...
Objective:
The Russian-speaking population is among the largest European-born in the U.S., yet Russian-American cross-cultural research is scarce. Two studies compared neuropsychological test performance in Russian and American urban adults. However, rural populations of the two nations have never been compared. Cross-cultural neuropsychological d...
STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM: Working memory is crucial in our daily life and it is necessary for any routine activity, as well as for reasoning or learning. Previous studies have shown that working memory may operate in different ways depending on cultural factors (Olazaran, Jacobs, & Stern, 1996; Lopez et al., 2016). Despite the doubtless importance...
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Working memory (WM) is continuously present in our daily life and it is necessary for the performance of any activity. Despite its vital importance, there is a limited number of neuropsychological instruments appropriately adapted to measure it in different cultures and populations. In fact, diagnostic mistakes can be found whe...
Presents an obituary of Gerald “Jerry” Goldstein (1931–2017). Jerry passed away at his home in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on April 8, 2017. Goldstein was famous for his contributions to the establishment of clinical neuropsychology as a science and professional specialty. In addition to his extraordinary service to the specialty, he made important c...
Word lists are the Golden Standard for verbal memory and learning assessment. There are several factors that may affect the creation of new word lists; however, no published materials have been found to explain the proper procedure for creating one. The EMBRACED project, a comprehensive computerized neuropsychological battery of tests, needed a wor...
Complex issues regarding the assessment of culturally and racially diverse individuals have been discussed for decades. Significant efforts are still needed to determine which measures are culturally fair, as well as obtaining representative normative data, especially in the pediatric population. We present a complex case of a 12-year old female wh...
Although Arabic is one of the most widely used languages in the world, little is known on the availability of standardized neuropsychological tests in Arabic. We review the literature published before 2016, using the keywords Arab*, cogniti*, and neuropsycholo*, as well as keywords for each Arab country. PubMed, PsycINFO, Education Source, Academic...
The American Medical Association Current Procedural Panel developed a new billing code making behavioral health screening a reimbursable healthcare service. The use of computerized testing as a means for cognitive screening and brief cognitive testing is increasing at a rapid rate. The purpose of this education paper is to provide information to cl...
Word lists are the benchmark for verbal memory and learning assessment. Several factors may affect the quality of results when using these lists. Published test manuals and articles did not provide explanations for how word lists were developed. The aim of this study was to develop as well as to explain the theoretical and practical reasons for two...
Tests should be tailored to the population they are meant to serve prior to making between groups comparisons (ITC, 2010; AERA, APA & NCME, 2014). The EMBRACED project follows AERA and ITC guidelines and will be the first comprehensive and domain specific computerized neuropsychological battery intended for widespread international application.
This study aims at re-conceptualizing PTSD as a neuropsychological construct and reconsidering the understanding of both the perpetrator and victim of the trauma from a neuropsychological perspective. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is considered a modern mental disorder secondary to an individual's experience of emotional trauma. Further suc...
Objective: The relationship between working memory (WM) and different aspects of intelligence, including reasoning, has been widely studied, finding increasing correlations between them. Recently, research has shifted to explore the nature of this relationship, as well as the effects of training WM on reasoning abilities. The purpose of this study...
Objective: The purpose of this review was to determine the possibility of obtaining “pure” measures for two of the most widely researched neuropsychological domains: attention and executive function. Finding pure measures of each cognitive ability, that are not interrelated, proves to be a challenging task. Data Selection: Both empirical and theore...
Objective: There is a growing urgency for clinicians to consider cross-cultural variables that may influence neuropsychological performance. The aim of the present review was to determine the best practices when assessing socioeconomic status (SES) in cross-cultural neuropsychological research. This will aid in the development of a comprehensive SE...
Most of the neuropsychological tests and batteries commonly used in the United States to assess Spanish-speakers do not meet the Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing (AERA, 1999). The aim of our neuropsychology group at UNCW was to develop a comprehensive battery for the neuropsychological assessment of different cultural groups, bot...
Of more than two million veterans that have been involved in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, it has been estimated that 12% of those returning from Afghanistan and 18% of those returning from Iraq report having experienced Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). PTSD has been measured using a variety of instruments, and the Trauma Symptom Inventor...
Although the role of culture has increasingly gained acceptance in clinical neuropsychology, relatively minimal research exists regarding the actual impact on clinical activities. In this study, we assess how using North American neuropsychological tests affects diagnostic accuracy in cognitive disorders of culturally diverse individuals. To addres...
Although biological etiologies and diffuse anatomical changes have been provided as plausible explanations for the unusual behaviors observed in idiot savants, no neuropsychological case studies or explanations for these behaviors are found in the literature. We present a case in which the "diagnosis" of idiot savant was based on historical, clinic...
This paper sought to define the most common psychopathological disorders associated with obese and malnourished children, and establish the normative group to which Mexico belongs in the Child Behavior Checklist 6-18(CBCL/6-18). This was a cross-sectional study of cuasiexperimental design. CBCL/6-18 data from 125 children from public school in Ciud...
In the present study, the EMBRACED project has completed a comprehensive literature review to delineate which variables are most pertinent and fundamental to neuropsychological testing. In addition, variables that are sensitive to culture were taken into account and were adapted for identified cultural differences.
The interview presents the American Psychological Association (APA) and the activities of Antonio E. Puente (Antonio E. Puente), Ph.D., as the President of this organization. Antonio Puente, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology at the University of North Carolina (UNCW), Wilmington, was elected president of the APA in 2017.When asked about the main direc...
Los objetivos de este trabajo fueron definir los trastornos psicopatológicos más comunes asociados a la obesidad y a la desnutrición, así como establecer el grupo de referencia normativo al cual pertenece México en la escala Child Behavior Checklist 6-18 (CBCL/6-18). Este fue un estudio transversal de diseño cuasiexperiemental. Se utilizó la inform...
Objective: The main objective was to determine the cognitive functioning with executive subprocesses involving response inhibition and cognitive flexibility in women who are victims of Intimate Partners Violence (IPV). Method: Data were obtained from a sample of 69 battered women (M¼ 39.96, SD ¼ 7.892) and 40 control women (M¼ 39.43, SD ¼ 8.569). B...
Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the principal cause of death in the world, (WHO database). Among CVDs, coronary artery diseases (CAD) are the most common diseases which are responsible for more than 38% of deaths. Also, CAD therapeutic strategy, patient based, may vary from basic useful with limited expenses to very complex non useful and very e...
Background: While area detector computed tomography (ADCT) is a useful tool for coronary artery disease (CAD) evaluation, myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) with single photon emission computed tomography is a well-established method of predicting functional relevance of CAD. Purpose: We assess the usefulness for decision making using both ADCT and...
Provides news briefs from the Society for the History of Psychology. This edition includes SHP member publication news, a call for papers, and the reluctant birth of William James's talks to teachers. (PsycINFO Database Record
(c) 2015 APA, all rights reserved).
Neuropsychological and psychological concomitants of coronary artery bypass grafting
(CABG) have been documented for several years. However, there is little evidence in
how neuropsychological and psychological variables help predict outcome in these
patients. Further, the role of anxiety is not clearly outlined in these situations. In this
study, 3...
The purpose of this study was to carry out a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the most frequently used test of intelligence: the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale. Though the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale – Fourth Edition (WAIS-IV) is the current version that is used with English-speakers, and though it has been recently published in Sp...
Objective: Visual judgment has been shown to decline in healthy older adults. Previous research indicates higher levels of the nutrients lutein and zeaxanthin, naturally occurring carotenoids found in food, are associated with eye health due to antioxidant properties. We investigated the association between lutein level and brain activity during a...
Objective: Previous research suggests higher levels of the nutrients lutein and zeaxanthin, naturally occurring carotenoids found in food, are associated with cognitive health due to their role as antioxidants and anti-inflammatory agents. As these nutrients are preferentially taken up into neural tissue, we investigated the association between lut...
Objective: Previous literature states that processing speed (PS) mediates the relationship between age and cognition. The current study sought to replicate previous findings and explore the potential of critical flicker fusion (CFF), a measure of visual temporal PS, as a mediator between age and cognition. Method: Participants were forty community-...
Objective: The purpose of this study is to examine two depression subscales as predictors of executive function (EF) performance
by using multiple regression analyses. Method: The present study utilizes data from 368 Marines and sailors from Camp Lejeune,
NC with traumatic brain injury (TBI) and were referred to Carolina Psychological Health Servic...