Neuropsychological Tests

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.

 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
• CANTAB (Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery)
• CDR Computerized Assessment System
• Clinical Dementia Rating
• CNS Vital Signs
• Cognitive Assessment Screening Instrument (CASI)
• Cognitive Function Scanner (CFS)
• Cognitive Symptom Checklists
• Comprehensive Aphasia Test (CAT)
• Cognistat (The Neurobehavioral Cognitive Status Examination)
• CogScreen: Aeromedical Edition
• 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
• General Practitioner Assessment Of Cognition (GPCOG)
• Grooved Pegboard
• Halstead Category Test
• Halstead-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 Addition Test (PASAT)
• Pediatric Attention Disorders Diagnostic Screener (PADDS)
• 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
• Rorschach test
• 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.)
• 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 (WMS)
• Wechsler Test of Adult Reading
• Wide Range Achievement Test (WRAT-4)
• Wisconsin card sorting task (WCST)
• Wonderlic Personnel Test
• Word Memory Test

See also

• Clinical neuropsychology
• Neurocognitive
• Neuroimaging
• Psychological testing

External links

• [1] Brief information about some neuropsychological tests.
• [2] Brief explanation of Personality Projective and Nonprojective tests - Children & Adults.