ContextDental (silver) amalgam is a widely used restorative material containing 50%
elemental mercury that emits small amounts of mercury vapor. No randomized clinical trials …

To assess the possibility that climbing to extremely high altitude may result in hypoxic injury
to the brain, we performed neuropsychological and physiologic testing on 35 mountaineers …

Abstract The Color Trails Test (CTT) has been described as a culture-fair test of visual
attention, graphomotor sequencing, and effortful executive processing abilities relative to the …

Background.—This article expands on an earlier series of three patients with a neurologic
syndrome, who had all worked in an aluminum smelting plant. Methods.—Twenty-five …

Purpose: Despite the benign prognoses of idiopathic partial epilepsies, particularly
regarding the response of seizures to treatment, some evidence now exists that patients with …

The FACTRETRIEVAL2 test battery, which assesses both retrieval of general information
from memory and metacognition about that retrieval, was administered to people before and …

Investigated the differences in the incidence of attachment behavior toward inanimate
objects among 279 7 mo–8 yr old children from 3 different cultures (US, United Kingdom …

To assess the severity and duration of new organic brain dysfunction after cardiac
operations, we used an extensive battery of neuropsychologic tests to evaluate 65 patients …

Abstract in the fall of 1981 the American Medical Research Expedition to Everest completed
a series of physiological and psychological studies on mountaineers ascending to the …

Several studies have reported positive correlations between measures of intelligence (a
quasi-subject variable) and level of performance on neuropsychological tests; few, however …