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Staying on the job: the frontal lobes control individual performance variability by Stuss, Donald T., Murphy, Kelly J., Binns, Malcolm A., Alexander, Michael P.

“…The causes of variability of performance by individual subjects have rarely been investigated, although excessive variability or inconsistency may be a…”
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Humour appreciation: a role of the right frontal lobe by Shammi, P., Stuss, D. T.

“…Humour occupies a special place in human social interactions. The brain regions and the potential psychological processes underlying humour appreciation were…”
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The frontal lobes are necessary for `theory of mind by Stuss, Donald T., Gallup, Gordon G., Alexander, Michael P.

“…Patients with limited focal frontal and nonfrontal lesions were tested for visual perspective taking and detecting deception. Frontal lobe lesions impaired the…”
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California Verbal Learning Test: performance by patients with focal frontal and non‐frontal lesions by Alexander, M. P., Stuss, D. T., Fansabedian, N.

“…Although frontal lobe lesions do not cause classic amnesia, they may disrupt learning and memory in a number of ways. To investigate in finer detail the…”
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Regional frontal injuries cause distinct impairments in cognitive control by ALEXANDER, M. P, STUSS, D. T, PICTON, T, SHALLICE, T, GILLINGHAM, S

“…Lesions of the frontal lobes may impair the capacity of patients to control otherwise intact cognitive operations in the face of ambiguous sensory input or…”
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Wisconsin Card Sorting Test performance in patients with focal frontal and posterior brain damage: effects of lesion location and test structure on separable cognitive processes by Stuss, D.T., Levine, B., Alexander, M.P., Hong, J., Palumbo, C., Hamer, L., Murphy, K.J., Izukawa, D.

“…Forty-six patients with single focal lesions (35 frontal, 11 nonfrontal) were administered the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST) under three conditions of…”
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Stroop performance in focal lesion patients: dissociation of processes and frontal lobe lesion location by Stuss, D.T, Floden, D, Alexander, M.P, Levine, B, Katz, D

“…There were three primary objectives: to examine the usefulness of the Stroop interference effect as a measure of frontal lobe function; to investigate the…”
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Impaired concentration due to frontal lobe damage from two distinct lesion sites by ALEXANDER, M. P, STUSS, D. T, SHALLICE, T, PICTON, T. W, GILLINGHAM, S

“…Investigations of cognitive deficits after frontal lobe damage have commonly relied on multidimensional tests and relatively coarse specification of lesion…”
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Impulsivity and risk-taking behavior in focal frontal lobe lesions by Floden, D., Alexander, M.P., Kubu, C.S., Katz, D., Stuss, D.T.

“…Frontal lobe dysfunction may underlie excessively impulsive and risky behavior observed in a range of neurological disorders. We devised a gambling task to…”
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Episodic memory and the self in a case of isolated retrograde amnesia by LEVINE, B, BLACK, S. E, CABEZA, R, SINDEN, M, MCINTOSH, A. R, TOTH, J. P, TULVING, E, STUSS, D. T

“…Isolated retrograde amnesia is defined as impaired recollection of experiences pre-dating brain injury with relatively preserved anterograde learning and…”
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Toward a Theory of Episodic Memory: The Frontal Lobes and Autonoetic Consciousness by Wheeler, Mark A, Stuss, Donald T, Tulving, Endel

“…Adult humans are capable of remembering prior events by mentally traveling back in time to re-experience those events. In this review, the authors discuss this…”
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Normal-pressure hydrocephalus: is there a genetic predisposition? by Cusimano, M D, Rewilak, D, Stuss, D T, Barrera-Martinez, J C, Salehi, F, Freedman, M

“…Normal-pressure hydrocephalus (NPH) is characterized by gait disturbance, cognitive impairment, with or without urinary incontinence, enlarged ventricles with…”
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A multidisciplinary approach to anterior attentional functions by Stuss, D T, Shallice, T, Alexander, M P, Picton, T W

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Effects of Focal Frontal Lesions on Response Inhibition by Picton, Terence W., Stuss, Donald T., Alexander, Michael P., Shallice, Tim, Binns, Malcolm A., Gillingham, Susan

“…This study examined the performance of 38 normal subjects and 43 patients with focal lesions of the frontal lobes on a simple go–nogo task where the…”
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Visual rating versus volumetry to detect frontotemporal dementia by Chow, T W, Gao, F, Links, K A, Ween, J E, Tang-Wai, D F, Ramirez, J, Scott, C J M, Freedman, M, Stuss, D T, Black, S E

“…Automated, volumetrically defined atrophy in the left anterior cingulate (LAC) and anterior temporal regions (LAT) on MRI can be used to distinguish most…”
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Visual Attention Deficits in Alzheimer's Disease: Simple Versus Conjoined Feature Search by Foster, J. K, Behrmann, M, Stuss, D. T

“…The authors investigated selective attention in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD), using a well-known visual search procedure. In simple feature search,…”
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Reaction time after head injury: fatigue, divided and focused attention, and consistency of performance by Stuss, D T, Stethem, L L, Hugenholtz, H, Picton, T, Pivik, J, Richard, M T

“…Three groups of patients who had suffered head injury were compared with matched control subjects on reaction time (RT) tasks. Group I consisted of outpatients…”
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Dissociation of attentional processes in patients with focal frontal and posterior lesions by Stuss, Donald T, Toth, Jeffrey P, Franchi, Dina, Alexander, Michael P, Tipper, Steven, Craik, Fergus I.M

“…A location-based (‘select-what, respond-where’) priming task was used to examine three measures of selective attention (interference (INT), negative priming…”
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Assessing cognitive functioning in ALS: A focus on frontal lobe processes by Gillingham, S. M., Yunusova, Y., Ganda, A., Rogaeva, E., Black, S. E., Stuss, D. T., Zinman, L.

“…Objective: It is generally acknowledged that at least 50% of individuals with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) will exhibit cognitive deficits outside of…”
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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: Effects of hypoxia on neurological and neuropsychological measures by Stuss, D. T., Peterkin, I., Guzman, D. A., Guzman, C., Troyer, A. K.

“…Eighteen patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) were administered a series of pulmonary, neurological, and neuropsychological measures to…”
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