Serial position effects scoring in the assessment of memory in Alzheimer's disease and major depression
Bemelmans, K.J.
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Bemelmans, K. J. (2009, April 2). Serial position effects scoring in the assessment of memory in Alzheimer's disease and major depression. Retrieved from
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Acknowledgements
List of Publications
Curriculum Vitae
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First of all, I would like to thank all the participants in this project. Without their cooperation this research would have not been possible.
I greatly appreciate the help of colleagues K.P.M Wijk-Kerssemakers, F. Tabeling, R.
Jonquière, H. van Andel in supplying the AD patients, R. de Winter in supplying the MD patients, J. Schijf, M.M. van Deemter for the data gathering of patients from the Brijder Stichting, Mrs J. Schouten-Verhagen, Miss J. Schouten, J. Colijn, Mrs C. den Dekker-De Best, and Miss J. Turfboer for the lab measurements, A.H. Zwinderman, E.
Pennings and B.Mertens for their statistical advice. Mrs S. Koning for typing several manuscripts and W. Dijksma for taking the photographs. I am particularly grateful to Miss M.M. van Deemter who based her master’s thesis on part of the current study.
List of publications
[1] Bemelmans KJ (1979). Wachten: een psychologische verkenning. Intermediair 25, 3-7.
[2] Bemelmans KJ (1980). Lateralisatie verschillen en psychopathologie. COBO Bulletin 2, 44-47.
[3] Bemelmans KJ, Verwey B, van Brussel JL, van Kempen GMJ, Goekoop JG (1983).
Major depression and visuospatial judgement. In : Proceedings of the 24th Dutch Federation Meeting, Leiden, 7-8 april. The Duth Foundation Federation of Medical Scientific Societies.
[4] Bemelmans KJ, Heijdanus PJH, Jansen TC, Rietveld WJ (1984). Periodicities in the basic rest-activity cycle range during the waking phase. IRCS Medical Science 12, 444 - 445.
[5] Bemelmans KJ, Dröes JThPM (1985). Over de diagnostische betekenis van VIQ/PIQ discrepanties bij schizophrenia. COBO Bulletin 2, 31-36.
[6] Bemelmans KJ ( 1986). Er was eens. De Psycholoog 11, 325-326.
[7] Bemelmans KJ (1988). Über die Bedeutung der Neuropsychologie für die Psychiatrie. In : Psychiatie des Rechten und Linken Gehirns. Neuropsychologische Ansätze zum Verständnis von “Persönlichkeit”, “Depression” und
“Schizophrenie”. Ed G. Oepen. Deutsche Ärzte Verlag, Köln.
[8] Bemelmans KJ, Goekoop JG (1991). The contribution of list length to the absence of the primacy effect in word recall in dementia of the Alzheimer type.
Psychological Medicine 21, 1047-1050.
[9] Bemelmans KJ, Goekoop JG, van Kempen, GMJ (1996). Recall performance in acutely depressed patients and plasma cortisol. Biological Psychiatry 39, 750-752.
[10] Wolters G, Bemelmans KJ, Spinhoven Ph, Theunissen I, Van der Does AJW (1996):
Immediate and intermediate-term effectiveness of a memory training program for the elderly. Journal of Cognitive Rehabilitation 14, 16-22.
[11] Bemelmans KJ (1998). Behandelstrategieen bij de ziekte van Alzheimer. De Psycholoog 33, 411.
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[12] Bemelmans KJ, Wolters G, Zwinderman K, ten Berge JMF, Goekoop JG (2002).
Evidence for two processes underlying the serial position curve of single- and multi-trial free recall in a heterogeneous group of psychiatric patients: A confirmatory factor analytic study. Memory 10, 151-160.
[13] Bemelmans KJ, Goekoop JG, de Rijk R, van Kempen GMJ (2003). Recall performance, plasma cortisol and plasma norepinephrine in normal human subjects. Biological Psychology 62, 1-15.
[14] Bemelmans KJ, Noort A, de Rijk R, Middelkoop HAM, van Kempen GMJ, Goekoop JG (2007). Plasma cortisol and norepinephrine in Alzheimer’s Disease.
Opposite relations with recall performance and stage of progression. Acta Neuropsychiatrica 19, 231-237.
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Curriculum Vitae
Karel Jozef Bemelmans was born on the 6th of June 1943 in Kerkrade. After receiving his H.B.S.-B diploma by means of State Exam in 1968, he studied two years of civil engineering before switching to Psychology at the University of Nijmegen where he did undergraduate work until 1973. His graduate work was done at the Department of Clinical Psychology at the University of Leiden where he graduated in 1977, specializing in the field of Neuropsychology. As a neuropsychologist he worked for thirty years at the Psychiatric Hospital ‘Endegeest’, in Oegstgeest, which is now part of a greater conglomerate called ‘Rivierduinen’. At that time Endegeest was only a peripheral psychiatric hospital with a high interest in biological psychiatric research. To this end it had departments of genetics, electronmicroscopy, and electroencephalography (EEG), neuropathology and biochemistry. After having spent several years of research on the EEG as a psychiatric diagnostic, he focussed on cognitive psychology and in particular the theoretical significance of serial position effects, of which this thesis is a product.
