Paul Maruff

Differences in neuropsychological performance between subtypes of obsessive-compulsive disorder (2009)

Nedeljkovic, Maja, Kyrios, Michael, Moulding, Richard, Doron, Guy, Wainwright, Kylie, Pantelis, Christos, ...

Objective: Neuropsychological studies have suggested that frontal-striatal dysfunction plays a role in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), although findings have been inconsistent, possibly due to...

Differences in neuropsychological performance between subtypes of obsessive-compulsive disorder (2009)

Nedeljkovic, Maja, Kyrios, Michael, Moulding, Richard, Doron, Guy, Wainwright, Kylie, Pantelis, Christos, ...

Objective: Neuropsychological studies have suggested that frontal-striatal dysfunction plays a role in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), although findings have been inconsistent, possibly due to...

Validity of the CogState Brief Battery: Relationship to Standardized Tests and Sensitivity to Cognitive Impairment in Mild Traumatic Brain Injury, Schizophrenia, and AIDS Dementia Complex (2009)

Maruff, Paul, Thomas, Elizabeth, Cysique, Lucette, Brew, Bruce, Collie, Alex, Snyder, Peter, ...

This study examined the validity of the four standard psychological paradigms that have been operationally defined within the CogState brief computerized cognitive assessment battery. Construct...

Differences in neuropsychological performance between subtypes of obsessive-compulsive disorder (2009)

Nedeljkovic, Maja, Kyrios, Michael, Moulding, Richard, Doron, Guy, Wainwright, Kylie, Pantelis, Christos, ...

Objective: Neuropsychological studies have suggested that frontal-striatal dysfunction plays a role in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), although findings have been inconsistent, possibly due to...

PILOTS ARE ONE OF SEVERAL special groups who operate (2008)

Roderick Westerman, Fracgp David, G Darby, Paul Maruff, Er Collie

in an environment unforgiving of human error, where cognitive failure can lead to catastrophic consequences. Cognitive function testing is one means of selecting mentally capable pilots. It is also a...

Peter d’Abbs 3 (2008)

Alan R Clough, Sheree Cairney, Dennis Gray, Paul Maruff, Robert Parker

Objective: A recent rise in cannabis use in Indigenous communities in northern Australia may have compounded existing patterns of other substance use. This paper describes these patterns in Arnhem...

{beta}-amyloid imaging and memory in non-demented individuals: evidence for preclinical Alzheimer's disease (2007)

Pike, Kerryn E., Savage, Greg, Villemagne, Victor L., Ng, Steven, Moss, Simon A., Maruff, Paul, ...

β-amyloid (Aβ) deposition is pathognomic for Alzheimer's disease (AD), but may occur in normal elderly people without apparent cognitive effect. Episodic memory impairment is an early and prominent...

Cognitive impairment in Aboriginal people with heavy episodic patterns of alcohol use (2007)

Cairney, Sheree, Clough, Alan, Jaragba, Muriel, Maruff, Paul

Background: With chronic alcohol abuse, cognitive studies suggest that progressive cognitive decline may precede more serious and irreversible neurological syndromes. The early detection of cognitive...

Cognitive impairment in Aboriginal people with heavy episodic patterns of alcohol use (2007)

Cairney, Sheree, Clough, Alan, Jaragba, Muriel, Maruff, Paul

Background: With chronic alcohol abuse, cognitive studies suggest that progressive cognitive decline may precede more serious and irreversible neurological syndromes. The early detection of cognitive...

Valproic acid is associated with cognitive decline in HIV-infected individuals: a clinical observational study (2006)

Cysique, Lucette A, Maruff, Paul, Brew, Bruce J

Abstract Background Valproic acid (VPA) is often used to control pain in HIV-related neuropathy. However, the effect of VPA on cognitive functions in advanced HIV-infected individuals is largely...

A statistical approach for classifying change in cognitive function in individuals following pharmacologic challenge: an example with alprazolam (2006)

Snyder, Peter J., Feltner, Douglas E., Caveney, Angela F., Giordani, Bruno, Maruff, Paul, Werth, John

The effects of any drug treatment on cognitive function are typically studied in groups of subjects. Observations made about the behavior of the drug, in the study sample, are then generalized to the...

A comparison of the effect of high- and low-dose fentanyl on the incidence of postoperative cognitive dysfunction after coronary artery bypass surgery in the elderly (2006)

Silbert, Brendan S., Scott, David Andrew, Evered, Lisbeth A., Lewis, Matthew, Kalpokas, Mario V., Maruff, Paul, ...

BACKGROUND: Postoperative cognitive dysfunction (POCD) after coronary artery bypass graft surgery is a common complication for which, despite many clinical investigations, no definitive etiology has...

A comparison of the effect of high- and low-dose fentanyl on the incidence of postoperative cognitive dysfunction after coronary artery bypass surgery in the elderly (2006)

Silbert, Brendan S., Scott, David Andrew, Evered, Lisbeth A., Lewis, Matthew, Kalpokas, Mario V., Maruff, Paul, ...

BACKGROUND: Postoperative cognitive dysfunction (POCD) after coronary artery bypass graft surgery is a common complication for which, despite many clinical investigations, no definitive etiology has...

Changes in cannabis use and its consequences over 3 years in a remote indigenous population in northern Australia (2006)

Clough, Alan R., Lee, Kim S., Cairney, Sheree, Maruff, Paul, O'Reilly, Bridie, D'Abbs, Peter, ...

Background: Few studies describe cannabis use in indigenous populations, and no longitudinal studies are available in Australia. We conducted 3-year follow-up interviews and assessments in Aboriginal...

Changes in cannabis use and its consequences over 3 years in a remote indigenous population in northern Australia (2006)

Clough, Alan R., Lee, Kim S., Cairney, Sheree, Maruff, Paul, O'Reilly, Bridie, D'Abbs, Peter, ...

Background: Few studies describe cannabis use in indigenous populations, and no longitudinal studies are available in Australia. We conducted 3-year follow-up interviews and assessments in Aboriginal...

A comparison of the effect of high- and low-dose fentanyl on the incidence of postoperative cognitive dysfunction after coronary artery bypass surgery in the elderly (2006)

Silbert, Brendan S., Scott, David Andrew, Evered, Lisbeth A., Lewis, Matthew, Kalpokas, Mario V., Maruff, Paul, ...

BACKGROUND: Postoperative cognitive dysfunction (POCD) after coronary artery bypass graft surgery is a common complication for which, despite many clinical investigations, no definitive etiology has...

Adverse mental health effects of cannabis use in two indigenous communities in Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia: exploratory study (2005)

Clough, Alan R., D'Abbs, Peter, Cairney, Sheree, Gray, Dennis, Maruff, Paul, Parker, Robert, ...

Objective: we investigated adverse mental health effects and their associations with levels of cannabis use among indigenous Australian cannabis users in remote communities in the Northern Territory....

EMERGING PATTERNS OF CANNABIS AND OTHER SUBSTANCE USE IN ABORIGINAL COMMUNITIES IN ARNHEM LAND, NORTHERN TERRITORY: A STUDY OF TWO COMMUNITIES (2004)

Clough, Alan R., Cairney, Sheree, D'Abbs, Peter, Parker, Robert, Maruff, Paul, Gray, Dennis, ...

Objective: A recent rise in cannabis use in Indigenous communities in northern Australia may have compounded existing patterns of other substance use. This paper describes these patterns in Arnhem...

Emerging patterns of cannabis and other substance use in Aboriginal communities in Arnhem Land, Northern Territory: a study of two communities (2004)

Clough, Alan R., D'Abbs, Peter, Cairney, Sheree, Gray, Dennis, Maruff, Paul, Parker, Robert, ...

Objective: A recent rise in cannabis use in Indigenous communities in northern Australia may have compounded existing patterns of other substance use. This paper describes these patterns in Arnhem...

EMERGING PATTERNS OF CANNABIS AND OTHER SUBSTANCE USE IN ABORIGINAL COMMUNITIES IN ARNHEM LAND, NORTHERN TERRITORY: A STUDY OF TWO COMMUNITIES (2004)

Clough, Alan R., Cairney, Sheree, D'Abbs, Peter, Parker, Robert, Maruff, Paul, Gray, Dennis, ...

Objective:A recent rise in cannabis use in Indigenous communities in northern Australia may have compounded existing patterns of other substance use. This paper describes these patterns in Arnhem...

Emerging patterns of cannabis and other substance use in Aboriginal communities in Arnhem Land, Northern Territory: a study of two communities (2004)

Clough, Alan R., D'Abbs, Peter, Cairney, Sheree, Gray, Dennis, Maruff, Paul, Parker, Robert, ...

Objective:A recent rise in cannabis use in Indigenous communities in northern Australia may have compounded existing patterns of other substance use. This paper describes these patterns in Arnhem...

EMERGING PATTERNS OF CANNABIS AND OTHER SUBSTANCE USE IN ABORIGINAL COMMUNITIES IN ARNHEM LAND, NORTHERN TERRITORY: A STUDY OF TWO COMMUNITIES (2004)

Clough, Alan R., Cairney, Sheree, D'Abbs, Peter, Parker, Robert, Maruff, Paul, Gray, Dennis, ...

Objective: A recent rise in cannabis use in Indigenous communities in northern Australia may have compounded existing patterns of other substance use. This paper describes these patterns in Arnhem...

Emerging patterns of cannabis and other substance use in Aboriginal communities in Arnhem Land, Northern Territory: a study of two communities (2004)

Clough, Alan R., D'Abbs, Peter, Cairney, Sheree, Gray, Dennis, Maruff, Paul, Parker, Robert, ...

Objective: A recent rise in cannabis use in Indigenous communities in northern Australia may have compounded existing patterns of other substance use. This paper describes these patterns in Arnhem...

Measuring exposure to cannabis use and other substance use in remote Indigenous populations in Northern Australia: a 'community epidemiology' approach using proxy respondents (2004)

Clough, Alan R., Cairney, Sheree, D'Abbs, Peter, Parker, Robert, Maruff, Paul, Gray, Dennis, ...

We evaluate a method to describe changing substance use patterns in northern Australia's remote Aboriginal communities (Arnhem Land, Northern Territory). Substance use was assessed in random samples...

Procedural learning in children with developmental coordination disorder (2003)

Wilson, Peter H., Maruff, Paul, Lum, Jarrad

Despite the fact that developmental coordination disorder (DCD) is characterised by a deficit in the ability to learn or automate motor skills, few studies have examined motor learning over repeated...

Procedural learning in children with developmental coordination disorder (2003)

Wilson, Peter H., Maruff, Paul, Lum, Jarrad

Despite the fact that developmental coordination disorder (DCD) is characterised by a deficit in the ability to learn or automate motor skills, few studies have examined motor learning over repeated...

Procedural learning in children with developmental coordination disorder (2003)

Wilson, Peter H., Maruff, Paul, Lum, Jarrad

Despite the fact that developmental coordination disorder (DCD) is characterised by a deficit in the ability to learn or automate motor skills, few studies have examined motor learning over repeated...

Procedural learning in children with developmental coordination disorder (2003)

Wilson, Peter H., Maruff, Paul, Lum, Jarrad

Despite the fact that developmental coordination disorder (DCD) is characterised by a deficit in the ability to learn or automate motor skills, few studies have examined motor learning over repeated...

Procedural learning in children with developmental coordination disorder (2003)

Wilson, Peter H., Maruff, Paul, Lum, Jarrad

Despite the fact that developmental coordination disorder (DCD) is characterised by a deficit in the ability to learn or automate motor skills, few studies have examined motor learning over repeated...

Spectrum of saccade system function in Alzheimer disease (2003)

Shafiq-Antonacci, Ruxsana, Maruff, Paul, Masters, Colin, Currie, Jon

Background: In Alzheimer disease (AD), tests of "first-order capabilities," such as reaction time or motor ability, might measure central nervous system integrity or disability more reliably than...

Procedural learning in children with developmental coordination disorder (2003)

Wilson, Peter H., Maruff, Paul, Lum, Jarrad

Despite the fact that developmental coordination disorder (DCD) is characterised by a deficit in the ability to learn or automate motor skills, few studies have examined motor learning over repeated...

Procedural learning in children with developmental coordination disorder (2003)

Wilson, Peter H., Maruff, Paul, Lum, Jarrad

Despite the fact that developmental coordination disorder (DCD) is characterised by a deficit in the ability to learn or automate motor skills, few studies have examined motor learning over repeated...

Anterior cingulate activation during Stroop task performance: a PET to MRI coregistration study of individual patients with schizophrenia (2002)

Yucel, Murat, Pantelis, Christos, Stuart, Geoffrey W., Wood, Stephen J., Maruff, Paul, Velakoulis, Dennis, ...

Objective: The authors used single-subject functional imaging analyses to 1) corroborate the findings of anterior cingulate hypoperfusion during an attentional task in schizophrenia and 2) examine...

Anterior cingulate activation during Stroop task performance: a PET to MRI coregistration study of individual patients with schizophrenia (2002)

Yucel, Murat, Pantelis, Christos, Stuart, Geoffrey W., Wood, Stephen J., Maruff, Paul, Velakoulis, Dennis, ...

Objective: The authors used single-subject functional imaging analyses to 1) corroborate the findings of anterior cingulate hypoperfusion during an attentional task in schizophrenia and 2) examine...

Anterior cingulate activation during Stroop task performance: a PET to MRI coregistration study of individual patients with schizophrenia (2002)

Yucel, Murat, Pantelis, Christos, Stuart, Geoffrey W., Wood, Stephen J., Maruff, Paul, Velakoulis, Dennis, ...

Objective: The authors used single-subject functional imaging analyses to 1) corroborate the findings of anterior cingulate hypoperfusion during an attentional task in schizophrenia and 2) examine...

Anterior cingulate activation during Stroop task performance: a PET to MRI coregistration study of individual patients with schizophrenia (2002)

Yucel, Murat, Pantelis, Christos, Stuart, Geoffrey W., Wood, Stephen J., Maruff, Paul, Velakoulis, Dennis, ...

Objective: The authors used single-subject functional imaging analyses to 1) corroborate the findings of anterior cingulate hypoperfusion during an attentional task in schizophrenia and 2) examine...

Anterior cingulate activation during Stroop task performance: a PET to MRI coregistration study of individual patients with schizophrenia (2002)

Yucel, Murat, Pantelis, Christos, Stuart, Geoffrey W., Wood, Stephen J., Maruff, Paul, Velakoulis, Dennis, ...

Objective: The authors used single-subject functional imaging analyses to 1) corroborate the findings of anterior cingulate hypoperfusion during an attentional task in schizophrenia and 2) examine...

Cognitive processing in children using cochlear implants: the relationship between visual memory, attention, and executive functions and developing language skills (2002)

Surowiecki, Vanessa N., Sarant, Julia, Maruff, Paul, Blamey, Peter J., Busby, Peter A., Clark, Graeme M.

We performed this study to determine whether children using a cochlear implant performed differently from age- and gender-matched hearing aid users on 8 neuropsychological measures of visual memory,...

Anterior cingulate activation during Stroop task performance: a PET to MRI coregistration study of individual patients with schizophrenia (2002)

Yucel, Murat, Pantelis, Christos, Stuart, Geoffrey W., Wood, Stephen J., Maruff, Paul, Velakoulis, Dennis, ...

Objective: The authors used single-subject functional imaging analyses to 1) corroborate the findings of anterior cingulate hypoperfusion during an attentional task in schizophrenia and 2) examine...

Cognitive processing in children using cochlear implants: the relationship between visual memory, attention, and executive functions and developing language skills (2002)

Surowiecki, Vanessa N., Sarant, Julia, Maruff, Paul, Blamey, Peter J., Busby, Peter A., Clark, Graeme M.

We performed this study to determine whether children using a cochlear implant performed differently from age- and gender-matched hearing aid users on 8 neuropsychological measures of visual memory,...

Hemispheric and Gender-related Differences in the Gross Morphology of the Anterior Cingulate/Paracingulate Cortex in Normal Volunteers: An MRI Morphometric Study (2001)

Yücel, Murat, Stuart, Geoffrey W., Maruff, Paul, Velakoulis, Dennis, Crowe, Simon F., Savage, Greg, ...

The sulci and gyri found within the anterior cingulate (AC), and across the cerebrum generally, have been found to vary in location and complexity from one individual to the next, making it difficult...

Covert orienting of visual attention in stereoscopic space : evidence for a depth-blind attentional spotlight (2000)

Maruff, Paul, Stuart, Geoffrey W., Tucker, A., Swinburne University Of Technology. School Of Biophysical Sciences And Electrical Engineering

Current models of spatial attention are based on results from paradigms in which attention is allocated in two-dimensional displays. However, the distribution of attention in three dimensional space...

Covert orienting of visual attention in stereoscopic space : evidence for a depth-blind attentional spotlight (2000)

Maruff, Paul, Stuart, Geoffrey W., Tucker, A.

Current models of spatial attention are based on results from paradigms in which attention is allocated in two-dimensional displays. However, the distribution of attention in three dimensional space...

Covert orienting of visual attention in stereoscopic space : evidence for a depth-blind attentional spotlight (2000)

Maruff, Paul, Stuart, Geoffrey W., Tucker, A.

Current models of spatial attention are based on results from paradigms in which attention is allocated in two-dimensional displays. However, the distribution of attention in three dimensional space...

Covert orienting of visual attention in stereoscopic space : evidence for a depth-blind attentional spotlight (2000)

Maruff, Paul, Stuart, Geoffrey W., Tucker, A.

Current models of spatial attention are based on results from paradigms in which attention is allocated in two-dimensional displays. However, the distribution of attention in three dimensional space...

Covert orienting of visual attention in stereoscopic space : evidence for a depth-blind attentional spotlight (2000)

Maruff, Paul, Stuart, Geoffrey W., Tucker, A.

Current models of spatial attention are based on results from paradigms in which attention is allocated in two-dimensional displays. However, the distribution of attention in three dimensional space...

Covert orienting of visual attention in stereoscopic space : evidence for a depth-blind attentional spotlight (2000)

Maruff, Paul, Stuart, Geoffrey W., Tucker, A.

Current models of spatial attention are based on results from paradigms in which attention is allocated in two-dimensional displays. However, the distribution of attention in three dimensional space...

Goal-directed selective attention and response competition monitoring: evidence from unilateral parietal and anterior cingulate lesions (2000)

Danckert, James, Maruff, Paul, Ymer, Carley, Kinsella, Glynda, Yucel, Murat, De Graaff, Steven, ...

Competing visual stimuli lead to slower responses to targets. This response competition must be resolved before correct responses are executed. Neuroimaging suggests that response competition...

Executive function and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: stimulant medication and better executive function performance in children (1999)

Kempton, S., Vance, Alasdair L. A., Maruff, Paul, Luk, E., Costin, J., Pantelis, Christos

Executive function deficits have been reported repeatedly in children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Stimulant medication has been shown to be effective in improving cognitive...

Executive function and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: stimulant medication and better executive function performance in children (1999)

Kempton, S., Vance, Alasdair L. A., Maruff, Paul, Luk, E., Costin, J., Pantelis, Christos

Executive function deficits have been reported repeatedly in children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Stimulant medication has been shown to be effective in improving cognitive...

Executive function and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: stimulant medication and better executive function performance in children (1999)

Kempton, S., Vance, Alasdair L. A., Maruff, Paul, Luk, E., Costin, J., Pantelis, Christos

Executive function deficits have been reported repeatedly in children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Stimulant medication has been shown to be effective in improving cognitive...

Executive function and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: stimulant medication and better executive function performance in children (1999)

Kempton, S., Vance, Alasdair L. A., Maruff, Paul, Luk, E., Costin, J., Pantelis, Christos

Executive function deficits have been reported repeatedly in children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Stimulant medication has been shown to be effective in improving cognitive...

The Effects of Age and Mood on Saccadic Function in Older Individuals (1999)

Shafiq-Antonacci, Ruxsana, Maruff, Paul, Whyte, Scott, Tyler, Peter, Dudgeon, Paul, Currie, Jon

To investigate the effect of age and mood on saccadic function, we recorded prosaccades, predictive saccades, and antisaccades from 238 cognitively normal, physically healthy volunteers aged 44 to 85...

Saccadic and attentional abnormalities in patients with schizophrenia (1998)

Maruff, Paul, Danckert, J., Pantelis, Christos, Currie, Jon N.

Abnormal performance on the antisaccade task suggests that patients with schizophrenia have difficulty with the inhibition of reflexive attentional shifts. The aim of the study was to investigate...

Saccadic and attentional abnormalities in patients with schizophrenia (1998)

Maruff, Paul, Danckert, J., Pantelis, Christos, Currie, Jon N.

Abnormal performance on the antisaccade task suggests that patients with schizophrenia have difficulty with the inhibition of reflexive attentional shifts. The aim of the study was to investigate...

Saccadic and attentional abnormalities in patients with schizophrenia (1998)

Maruff, Paul, Danckert, J., Pantelis, Christos, Currie, Jon N.

Abnormal performance on the antisaccade task suggests that patients with schizophrenia have difficulty with the inhibition of reflexive attentional shifts. The aim of the study was to investigate...

Saccadic and attentional abnormalities in patients with schizophrenia (1998)

Maruff, Paul, Danckert, J., Pantelis, Christos, Currie, Jon N.

Abnormal performance on the antisaccade task suggests that patients with schizophrenia have difficulty with the inhibition of reflexive attentional shifts. The aim of the study was to investigate...

Asymmetries in the covert orienting of visual spatial attention to spatial and non-spatial cues in Alzheimer's disease (1995)

Maruff, Paul, Malone, Valcy, Currie, Jon

The ability to direct covert visual spatial attention to the left (LVF0 and right visual field (RVF) was examined in 15 patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease and 15 age- and...