Minnesota Percepto-Diagnostic Test and Reading Achievement

1981 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 235-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lillian R. Putnam
Keyword(s):  
Reading Achievement ◽  
Brain Damage ◽  
Diagnostic Test ◽  
Group Analysis ◽  
Perceptual Error ◽  
Reading Mastery ◽  
Remedial Readers ◽  
Damage Indicators ◽  
Mastery Tests

With mental ages partialled out, the correlation of −0.25 between perceptual error scores of 102 remedial readers on the Minnesota Percepto-Diagnostic Test and Woodcock Reading Mastery Tests was not significant. Intra-group analysis of scores on reproductions showed that those in the organic classification made significantly more errors on the horizontal arrow figure. Inter-group analysis indicated significant differences among primary, secondary, and organic classifications with the organic producing the most errors on the horizontal arrow figure. Inter-group analysis of brain-damage indicators yielded no significant differences; inter-group analysis showed that those assigned the organic classifications made significantly more errors in distortion of dots.

The Archimedes Spiral and Diagnosis of Brain Damage

1966 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 391-397 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ricardo B. Morant ◽  
Aglaia Efstathiou
Keyword(s):  
Brain Damage ◽  
Diagnostic Test ◽  
Relative Difficulty ◽  
Archimedes Spiral ◽  
The Brain

The validity of the Archimedes spiral as a diagnostic test of brain damage is examined experimentally. Results suggest that the different effects for normal and brain-damaged Ss reported in the literature can be attributed to the relative difficulty experienced by the brain-damaged S in maintaining fixation on the center of the spiral.

Statistically Significant Differences Between Standard Scores on the Woodcock Reading Mastery Tests—Revised

Diagnostique ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald C. Eaves ◽  
Gloria D. Campbell-Whatley ◽  
Caroline Dunn ◽  
AmySue Reilly ◽  
Carbestha Tate-Braxton
Keyword(s):  
Reading Mastery ◽  
Mastery Tests

scholarly journals Fastigial Stimulation Increases Ischemic Blood Flow and Reduces Brain Damage after Focal Ischemia

1993 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 1013-1019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fangyi Zhang ◽  
Costantino Iadecola
Keyword(s):  
Blood Flow ◽  
Brain Damage ◽  
Infarct Volume ◽  
Group Analysis ◽  
Blood Gases ◽  
Focal Ischemia ◽  
Ischemic Damage ◽  
Collateral Flow ◽  
Sprague Dawley ◽  
Mca Occlusion

Electrical stimulation of the cerebellar fastigial nucleus (FN) increases CBF and reduces brain damage after focal ischemia. We studied whether FN stimulation “protects” the brain from ischemic damage by increasing blood flow to the ischemic territory. Sprague–Dawley rats were anesthetized (halothane 1–3%) and artificially ventilated through a tracheal cannula inserted transorally. CBF was monitored by a laser-Doppler probe placed over the convexity at a site corresponding to the area spared from infarction by FN stimulation. Arterial pressure (AP), blood gases, and body temperature were controlled, and the electroencephalogram (EEG) was monitored. The stem of the middle cerebral artery (MCA) was occluded. After occlusion, the FN was stimulated for 60 min (100 μA; 50 Hz; 1 s on–1 s off) while AP was maintained at 97 ± 11 mm Hg (mean ± SD) by controlled hemorrhage. Rats were then allowed to recover, and infarct volume was determined 24 h later in thioninstained sections. In unstimulated rats ( n = 7), proximal MCA occlusion reduced CBF and the amplitude of the EEG. One day later, these rats had infarcts involving neocortex and striatum. FN stimulation after MCA occlusion ( n = 12) enhanced CBF and EEG recovery [61 ± 34 and 73 ± 43%, respectively at 60 min; p < 0.05 vs. unstimulated group; analysis of variance (ANOVA)] and reduced the volume of the cortical infarct by 48% (p < 0.05). In contrast, hypercapnia (Pco2 = 64 ± 4; n = 7) did not affect CBF and EEG recovery or infarct volume (p > 0.05). Thus, FN stimulation, unlike hypercapnia, increases CBF to the ischemic cortex, improves recovery of electrical activity, and reduces tissue damage after MCA occlusion. These findings support the hypothesis that FN stimulation reduces ischemic damage by enhancing collateral flow to the ischemic territory.

Factor Structure of the Woodcock Reading Mastery Tests-Revised, Forms G and H

2001 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 35-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas O. Williams ◽  
Ronald C. Eaves ◽  
Cynthia Cox
Keyword(s):  
Factor Structure ◽  
Reading Mastery ◽  
Mastery Tests
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