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Maria A. Ron
Researcher at UCL Institute of Neurology
Publications - 30
Citations - 2278
Maria A. Ron is an academic researcher from UCL Institute of Neurology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Multiple sclerosis & Schizophrenia. The author has an hindex of 20, co-authored 30 publications receiving 2127 citations.
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Executive function in multiple sclerosis. The role of frontal lobe pathology.
J Foong,L Rozewicz,G Quaghebeur,C. A. Davie,L D Kartsounis,Alan J. Thompson,DH Miller,Maria A. Ron +7 more
TL;DR: This study highlights the difficulties in attempting to attribute specific cognitive abnormalities to focal brain pathology in the presence of widespread disease such as in multiple sclerosis.
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Slater revisited: 6 year follow up study of patients with medically unexplained motor symptoms
TL;DR: A low incidence of physical or psychiatric diagnoses which explained patients' symptoms or disability was found, however, a high level of psychiatric comorbidity existed and reinvestigation of these patients is both expensive and potentially dangerous and should be avoided.
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Discrete neurophysiological correlates in prefrontal cortex during hysterical and feigned disorder of movement
TL;DR: Functional neuroimaging was used to examine the neural correlates of hysterical symptoms and those that are feigned in adults with major depressive disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder.
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Discrimination Learning, Reversal, and Set-Shifting in First-Episode Schizophrenia: Stability Over Six Years and Specific Associations with Medication Type and Disorganization Syndrome
Verity C. Leeson,Trevor W. Robbins,Elizabeth Matheson,Samuel B. Hutton,Maria A. Ron,Thomas R. E. Barnes,Eileen M. Joyce +6 more
TL;DR: First-episode schizophrenia patients can learn and generalize rules but are inflexible when rules change, reflecting reduced responsiveness to negative feedback and difficulty in switching attention.
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Clinically isolated lesions of the type seen in multiple sclerosis: a cognitive, psychiatric, and MRI follow up study.
TL;DR: A 4 1/2 year follow up study documenting magnetic resonance imaging, psychometric, and psychiatric abnormalities was undertaken in a group of 48 patients with clinically isolated lesions--for example, optic neuritis--which are frequently the harbinger of MS.