Neuropsychological test
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Neuropsychological tests are specifically designed tasks used to measure a psychological function known to be linked to a particular brain structure or pathway. They usually involve the systematic administration of clearly defined procedures in a formal environment. Neuropsychological tests are typically administered to a single person working with an examiner in a quiet office environment, free from distractions. As such, it can be argued that neuropsychological tests at times offer an estimate of a person's peak level of cognitive performance. Neuropsychological tests are a core component of the process of conducting neuropsychological assessment.
Most neuropsychological tests in current use are based on traditional psychometric theory. In this model, a person's raw score on a test is compared to a large general population normative sample, that should ideally be drawn from a comparable population to the person being examined. Normative studies frequently provide data stratified by age, level of education, and/or ethnicity, where such factors have been shown by research to affect performance on a particular test. This allows for a person's performance to be compared to a suitable control group, and thus provide a fair assessment of their current cognitive functioning.
The following list includes commonly-used tests.
[edit] List of neuropsychological tests
- Ammons Quick Test
- Beck Depression Inventory, Anxiety Inventory, and Hopelessness Scale
- Bender Visual Motor Gestalt (BVMG) Test
- Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination
- Boston Naming Test
- California Verbal Learning Test
- Clinical Dementia Rating
- Cognitive Symptom Checklists
- Comprehensive Aphasia Test (CAT)
- Cognistat (The Neurobehavioral Cognitive Status Examination)
- Controlled Oral Word Association Test (COWAT or FAS)
- Continuous Performance Task (CPT)
- d2 Test of Attention
- Dean-Woodcock Neuropsychology Assessment System (DWNAS)
- Delis-Kaplan Executive Function System (D-KEFS)
- Dementia Rating Scale
- Digit Vigilance Test
- Figural Fluency Test
- Finger Tapping (Oscillation) Test
- Grooved Pegboard
- Halstead Category Test
- Halsted-Reitan Neuropsychological Battery
- Hayling and Brixton tests
- Hooper Visual Organization Test
- Iowa gambling task
- Kaplan Baycrest Neurocognitive Assessment
- Kaufman Functional Academic Skills Test
- Kaufman Short Neuropsychological Assessment
- Lexical decision task
- Luria-Nebraska Neuropsychological battery
- Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
- MCI Screen
- Memory Assessment Scales
- MicroCog
- Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory (MCMI)
- Mini mental state examination (MMSE)
- Mooney Problem Checklist
- Multilingual Aphasia Examination
- NEPSY
- North American Reading Test
- Paced Auditory Serial Attention Test (PASAT)
- Paulhus Deception Scales
- Personality Adjective Checklist
- Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status
- Quick Neurological Screening Test
- Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test
- Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure
- Rivermead Behavioural memory Test
- Rogers Criminal Responsibility Scale
- Ruff Figural Fluency Test
- Sensory Screening Test
- SCL-90 (Symptom Checklist 90)
- Shipley Institute of Living Scale
- Stroop Task
- Symbol Digit Modalities Test
- Tactual Performance Test
- Test of Memory Malingering
- Test of Memory and Learning(TOMAL)
- Test of Variables of Attention (T.O.V.A.)
- Thematic Apperception Test
- Tower of London Test
- Trail-Making Test (TMT) or Trails A & B
- Validity Indicator Profile
- Verbal fluency tests
- Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS)
- Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC-IV IQ test)
- Wechsler Memory Scale 3rd edition(WMS-III)
- Wechsler Test of Adult Reading
- Wide Range Achievement Test(WRAT-4)
- Wisconsin card sorting task (WCST)
- Wonderlic Personnel Test
- Word Memory Test
