Assessment Tests

Question 1

Halstead-Reitan Battery

Answer 1

• Neuropsychological test originally desinged to assess organic brain damage
• Ten items including:
  
  • Trail making test (visuomotor perception and motor speed)
  • Critical flicker frequency test (visual perception)

Question 2

Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale

Answer 2

• Intelligence test
• Used from age 2 to adulthood
• 120 items

Question 3

Wechsler Memory Scale

Answer 3

• Screens for verbal and visual memory therefore yielding a memory quotient
  
  • Good for memory syndromes e.g. Korsakoff’s

Question 4

Ravens Progressivve Matrices

Answer 4

• Test of performance IQ
• Free from cultural or language bias
• General intelligence and visuospatial problem-solving

Question 5

National Adult Reading Test

Answer 5

• Test of premorbid IQ

Question 6

Wisconsin Cart Sorting Test

Answer 6

• Standard test of executive functions affected by frontal lobe lesions.
• Subjects sort stimulus cards of different colours, shapes and numbers into groups according to single principle.

Question 7

Rey-Osterrieth

Answer 7

• Test of visual memory that involves asking the subject to copy a complex figure made of basic geometric shapes and then to draw it from memory

Question 8

Paired Associate Test

Answer 8

• Test of verbal memory

Question 9

Digit Span

Answer 9

• Relatively pure test of attention and working memory
• Normal is 7 +/- 2 depending on age and general intellectual ability - in the elderly 5 can be considered normal
  
  • Reverse span is usually one or two less than forward
• Forms part of verbal subtests of Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS)

Question 10

Stroop Test

Answer 10

• Measures set shifting abilities and response inhibition
• Test of frontal function and selective attention ability

Question 11

Trail Making Test

Answer 11

• Two parts
  
  • Part A - Simple number sequence is used to join the dots
  • Part B - alternating numbers and letters - more sensitive to frontal lobe dysfunction
• Tests visuomotor tracing, attention, conceptualisation and set-shifting.

Question 12

The Bender Visual Motor Gestalt Test

Answer 12

• Test of visumotor coordination useful for both children (>3) and adults
• Usualy used in adults as a screening measure for organic dysfunction e.g. after head injury