Pierre Nolin

Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

This chapter presents the studies that have used virtual reality as an assessment or rehabilitation tool of cognitive functions following a stroke. To be part of this review, publications must have made a collection of data from individuals who have suffered a stroke and must have been published between 1980 and 2017. A total of 50 publications wer...

This chapter is a systematic review of the studies that have used virtual reality (VR) as an assessment or a rehabilitation tool of cognitive functions following traumatic brain injury (TBI). To be part of this review, publications must have collected data from individuals who have sustained a TBI, and must have been published between 1980 and 2017...

Having garnered interest both in clinic and research areas, the Virtual Classroom (Rizzo et al., 2000) assesses children's attention in a virtual context. The Digital MediaWorks team (www.dmw.ca) has evolved the original basic classroom concept over a number of iterations to form the ClinicaVR Suite containing the Classroom-CPT as one of its compon...

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) causes impairments affecting instrumental activities of daily living (IADL). However, few studies have considered virtual reality as an ecologically valid tool for the assessment of IADL in patients who have sustained a TBI. The main objective of the present study was to examine the use of the Nonimmersive Virtual Coffe...

p>Introduction Les séquelles neuropsychologiques consécutives à un traumatisme crânio-encéphalique peuvent être multiples, affectant la cognition (surtout dans ses dimensions attention, mémoire, fonctions exécutives et conscience des troubles, l’humeur (anxiété, dépression) et le comportement (réduction des activités, désinhibition). Plus récemmen...

Alzheimer's disease (AD) causes impairments affecting instrumental activities of daily living (IADL). Transdisciplinary research in neuropsychology and virtual reality has fostered the development of ecologically valid virtual tools for the assessment of IADL, using simulations of real life activities. Few studies have examined the benefits of this...

This study examined attentional and executive functions of 30 neglected children ages 8 to 12, who were compared with a control group of 30 children. Neuropsychological tests measured aspects of simple and complex attention. The results have shown that neglected children were not different from control children with simple tests of attention. Howev...

This study explored the emotional and behavioral profiles of 41 neglected children, ages 6 to 12 years, who were compared with a control group of 41 children. The Achenbach System was used in order to describe emotional and behavioral profiles based on the Diagnostic Criteria of the DSM-IV [Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th...

Brain aging is a natural process that leads to a change in cognitive functions. Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) is a condition in which a person has cognitive functions that are below normal for his age. However, these deficits are not pronounced enough to confirm for the diagnosis of dementia. It is therefore important to develop new ways to asses...

Primary objective: There is controversy surrounding the cognitive effects of sports concussion. This study aimed to verify whether the technique of virtual reality could aid in the identification of attention and inhibition deficits in adolescents. Study design: A prospective design was used to assess 25 sports-concussed and 25 non-sports-concus...

Objective: Evaluating and predicting impulsivity represents a major challenge in neuropsychology as existing measures either detect long term traits (e.g. questionnaires) or very short term states (e.g. go-no/go paradigms), but generally lack overall sensitivity and predictive value. The goal of this study was to develop an ecological and accessib...

The objective of this study was to offer a description of certain “hot” executive functions in abusive and neglectful parents. A group of 14 parents accused of physical abuse and 18 parents accused of neglect were compared with 17 parents who had not been subject to accusations of this type. Only the physical abuse group showed a significant differ...

The objective of this study was to provide a psychological profile of parents who have been formally accused of child maltreatment. A clinical group of 16 parents accused of physical abuse and 22 parents accused of neglect were compared with 18 parents from a control group. The MCMI-III was administered individually for each parent. Both groups of...

Tourette syndrome (TS) is a neuropsychiatric disease characterized by the presence of multiple motor-related and vocal tics associated with various neuropsychiatric troubles. Little has been written as pertains to the evolution of the symptoms of this pathology and on the degree of distress associated with it. Twenty-two (22) adults afflicted with...

To examine the role played by two interviewing methods used in the evaluation of acute self-reported symptoms after a mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI). A cohort of 354 mTBI-adult participants was recruited over a period of 36 months in emergency rooms of five Canadian trauma hospitals. Participants were contacted by phone at the first and fourth...

L’importance d’impliquer la famille dans le traitement de readaptation en toxicomanie chez les adolescents fait consensus, mais la nature de son influence demeure peu documentee. Objectifs. Le but de cette etude de cas est de mieux comprendre la contribution de l’implication familiale dans ce processus de readaptation. Methode. Des entrevues indivi...

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Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS) or non-accidental head injury mainly differs from the other forms of child abuse in that typical neurologic injuries and soft tissue injuries are observed in a child who has been the victim of shaking baby syndrome. Although the effects of SBS have been studied from time to time in terms of head injury, they have never be...

The aim of the current article was to study the development of globalllocal processes in children aged 6 to 12 years old. The sample was composed of 74 boys and 70 girls who were recruited in regular school classes and whose socio-economic level ranged from low to high. The scoring of the children's performance was validated by five different judge...

This study aims to describe the executive dysfunctions in children and adolescents who have sustained a traumatic brain injury (TBI) using the Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function (BRIEF), which was completed by their mothers. Group 1 consists of 10 participants who suffered a mild TBI and the group 2 is composed of 20 participants with...

This study attempts to ascertain whether the intelligence and executive functions are similar or different concepts. Data were collected in the files of children. There were 110 participants who have sustained a moderate or severe traumatic brain injury and aged between 6 and 18 years. The results highlight that neuropsychological tests are multifa...

The purpose of this study was to demonstrate the relevance of virtual reality as a new approach of assessment in neuropsychology. To do this, a group of eight children who have sustained a traumatic brain injury was compared with a group of six control children, on the performance on a standard and a virtual continuous performance test ( VIGIL CPT...

The purpose of this study was to compare a group of abused children to a control group with a comprehensive battery of neuropsychological tests. The 25 children of both groups were matched on age, gender, educational level and socioeconomic level. The results showed that abused children were significantly lower on tests of sensorium, motor and visu...

The purpose of this research was to study emotion recognition in maltreated children from five to seven years of age, with the Affect Recognition subtest from the NEPSY-II. The group was composed of 22 boys and 12 girls all receiving child protective care services. Results show that boys had significantly lower scores, when compared with girls and...

The purpose of this study was to determine whether socio-economic status influences performance on a battery of neuropsychological tests. The number of children varies from 35 to 89 depending on the tests used. All children aged 6 to 12 years. Group 1 is composed of children of low socio-economic status while those of Group 2 were of medium-high st...

This study compared the performance of 8 children who have sustained a traumatic brain injury on the traditional VIGIL Continuous Performance Test and the Continuous Performance Test included in the Virtual Classroom. Results supported the hypothesis, showing that the Continuous Performance Test from the Virtual Classroom showed more sensitivity co...

Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS) is now recognized as being the main cause of severe traumatic brain injury in infancy. However, our understanding of the impact of this type of abuse on child development remains sketchy. The main objective of the current study was therefore to shed light on the cognitive dysfunctions that are particular to SBS victims on...

The aim of this study is twofold: First, to investigate whether cognitive functions can contribute to differentiating neglected children with or without physical abuse compared to comparison participants; second, to demonstrate the detrimental impact of children being victimized by a combination of different types of maltreatment. Seventy-nine chil...

The aim of the present study was threefold: first to investigate whether neglect is associated with cognitive deficits as measured by a neuropsychological assessment; second, to determine whether socioeconomic status (SES) influences performance on neuropsychological tests; and third, to determine whether some neglected children manage to obtain a...

To examine the role played by two interviewing methods used (spontaneous response and suggested response) in the evaluation of long-term subjective post-mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) symptoms. Cohort study. One hundred and eight adult participants were contacted for a follow-up telephone interview 12-36 months after their mTBI. The participant...

To explore the long-term relations among sociodemographic, neurologic, clinical, and neuropsychologic variables, and vocational status in persons with mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI), and to identify the symptoms that determine whether or not these individuals return to work. Longitudinal quasi-experimental between-groups design. Eighty-five MTB...

L’article vise a decrire un modele theorique de la negligence. La premiere partie presente les principaux enjeux suscites par l’acte de definir la negligence envers les enfants et propose une definition permettant de faire un diagnostic de ces situations. La seconde partie propose un modele etiologique de la negligence. La troisieme partie fait le...

To explore the contribution of executive dysfunctions to mnemonic problems in adults with mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI). Prospective quasiexperimental between-groups design. Ninety-nine persons with MTBI were compared to 90 control group participants matched for gender, age, and education. Two Canadian brain injury rehabilitation programs. Cal...

CONTEXTE THÉORIQUE Chaque année, au Québec, près de 2 000 personnes sont victimes d'un traumatisme craniocérébral léger (TCL) (Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux, 1997). Le TCL représente plus des deux tiers de tous les traumatismes crâniens (King, 1997; Ruff, Levin et Marshall, 1986). Depuis les années 90, l'intérêt pour la problématiqu...

The essence of the present study is to determine whether the symptoms consecutive to a mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI) are more related to the presence of psychological, neurological or academic premorbid risk factors or to the trauma itself. More precisely, it focuses on the implication of those premorbid risk factors over the performance on a...

The subtle deficits involved in mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI) make it difficult to pose this diagnosis. The purpose of this study is to examine the hypothesis that only sufficiently sensitive neuropsychological tests might be helpful in detecting the attention deficits of children who have sustained a MTBI. As expected, results point to the im...

The subtle deficits involved in mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI) make it difficult to pose this diagnosis. The purpose of this study is to examine the hypothesis that only sufficiently sensitive neuropsychological tests might be helpful in detecting the attention deficits of children who have sustained a MTBI. As expected, results point to the im...

ObjectiveLong-term effects of a mild head injury on attention and speed of information processing in child.Material and methodFifteen children between 8 and 15 years old having sustained mild head injury were compared to 15 controls. The subjects of both groups showed a normal developmental history. Pairing was based on age, sex, level of schooling...

This study has two main purposes: (1) to examine the relationship between prospective memory, frontal functions, and episodic memory, and (2) to determine the proportion of variance in prospective memory results that is explained by mnemonic and frontal factors. Thirty-six brain-injured patients were evaluated with standard neuropsychological tests...

Résumé Le California Verbal Learning Test (CVLT) est un instrument neuropsychologique issu des modèles de la psychologie cognitive qui produit un portrait dynamique de l'apprentissage verbal. Le but de la présente recherche est d'étudier la valeur psychométrique de l'adaptation française du CVLT. Les données recueillies auprès de 309 sujets normaux...

Few empirical studies have examined the factor structures of responses of brain injured patients with different memory tests. Sets of verbal and nonverbal memory and learning tests were administered to 65 young adults having sustained a traumatic brain injury (TBI) and were subjected to a factor analysis. The derived factors clearly represented fiv...

A review of the literature shows that only a weak connection exists between objective memory tests and self-evaluation memory questionnaires. The object of the present study was to explore which of the mnemonic, affective or psychosocial factors influence subjective evaluation of the memory function. This study is composed of a self-evaluation memo...

A review of the literature shows that only a weak connection exists between objective memory tests and self-evaluation memory questionnaires. The object of the present study was to explore which of the mnemonic, affective or psychosocial factors influence subjective evaluation of the memory function. This study is composed of a self-evaluation memo...

This study explored two methods for assessing memory deficit anosognosia with 30 traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients, their relatives, and their therapists. The first method consisted of questionnaire-based reports of everyday memory problems. A memory self-assessment questionnaire, the "Questionnaire d'Auto-évaluation de la Mémoire" (QAM, Van de...

Examines cognitive functioning in patients with callosal agenesis. Ss were 8 patients (10–29 yrs old) with callosal agenesis and 2 control groups (10 students from regular and junior colleges and 9 students from the same or similar classes as the experimental group). Ss were matched on age, gender, and handedness. Intellectual capacities, attention...

The authors had, in their clinical practice, to determine the learning capabilities of cerebro-lesed patients. In order to test cerebral lesion, patients were tested on story recalling, taking into account the studies of Kintsch and Van Dijk of actual theorical models. An experimental protocol allowed us to show that comparatively to a control popu...