| Test Name |
Purpose of Test |
| Ammons Quick Test |
This test has been used for
many years to help assess premorbid intelligence. It is a passive response
picture-vocabulary test. |
| Aphasia Tests (various) |
Several aphasia and language tests examine level of competency in
receptive and expressive language skills. (e.g., Reitan-Indiana Aphasia
Screening Test) |
| Beck Depression or Anxiety Scales |
These scales provide quick
assessment of subjective experience of symptoms related to depression or
anxiety. |
| Bender Visual Motor Gestalt Test |
This test evaluates visual-perceptual and
visual-motor functioning, yielding possible signs of brain dysfunction,
emotional problems, and developmental maturity. |
| Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination |
Broad diagnosis of language impairment in
adults. |
| Boston Naming Test |
Assessing the ability to name pictures of objects
through spontaneous responses and need for various types of cueing.
Inferences can be drawn regarding language facility and possible
localization of cerebral damage. |
| California Verbal Learning Test |
This procedure examines several aspects of verbal learning,
organization, and
memory. Forms for adults and children. |
| Cognitive Symptom Checklists |
Self-evaluation of areas of cognitive
impairment for adolescents and adults. |
| Continuous Performance Test |
Tests that require intense attention to a
visual-motor task are used in assessing sustained attention and freedom
from distractibility. (e.g., Vigil; Connors Continuous Performance Test) |
| Controlled Oral Word Association
Test |
Different forms of this procedure
exist. Most frequently used for assessing verbal fluency and the ease with
which a person can think of words that begin with a specific letter. |
| Cognistat (The Neurobehavioral Cognitive
Status Examination) |
This screening test examines language,
memory, arithmetic, attention, judgment, and reasoning. It is typically
used in screening individuals who cannot tolerate more complicated or
lengthier neuropsychological tests. |
| d2 Test of Attention |
This procedure measures selective attention
and mental concentration. |
| Delis-Kaplan Executive Function System |
Assesses key areas of executive function
(problem-solving, thinking flexibility, fluency, planning, deductive
reasoning) in both spatial and verbal modalities, normed for ages 8-89. |
| Dementia Rating Scale |
Provides measurement of attention,
initiation, construction, conceptualization, and memory to assess
cognitive status in older adults with cortical impairment. |
| Digit Vigilance Test |
A commonly used test of attention, alertness,
and mental processing capacity using a rapid visual tracking task. |
| Figural Fluency Test |
Different forms of this procedure exist,
evaluating nonverbal mental flexibility. Often compared with tests of
verbal fluency. |
| Finger Tapping (Oscillation) Test |
This procedure measures motor speed. By
examining performance on both sides of the body, inferences may be drawn
regarding possible lateral brain damage. |
| Grooved Pegboard |
This procedure measures performance speed in
a fine motor task. By examining both sides of the body, inferences may be
drawn regarding possible lateral brain damage. |
| Halstead Category Test |
This test measures concept learning. It examines flexibility of
thinking and openness to learning. It is considered a good measure of overall brain
function. Various forms of this test exist. |
| Halstead-Reitan Neuropsychological Battery |
A set of tests that examines language, attention, motor speed,
abstract thinking, memory, and spatial reasoning is often used to produce an overall
assessment of brain function. Some neuropsychologists use some or all of the original set
of tests in this battery. |
| Hooper Visual Organization Test |
This procedure examines ability to visually integrate information
into whole perceptions. It is a sensitive measure of moderate to severe brain injury. |
| Kaplan Baycrest Neurocognitive Assessment |
Assesses cognitive abilities in adults,
including attention, memory, verbal fluency, spatial processing, and
reasoning/conceptual shifting. |
| Kaufman Functional Academic
Skills Test |
A brief, individually
administered test designed to determine performance in reading and
mathematics as applied to daily life situations. |
| Kaufman Short Neuropsychological Assessment |
Measures broad cognitive functions in
adolescents and adults with mental retardation or dementia. |
| Luria-Nebraska Neuropsychological Battery |
This is a set of several tests
designed to cover a broad range of functional domains and to provide a
pattern analyses of strengths and weakness across areas of brain function.
The tests reflect a quantitative model of A. R. Luria's qualitative
assessment scheme. |
| MMPI-2 (Minnesota Multiphasic Personality
Inventory) |
This well-known and well-respected
personality assessment is often used to accompany neuropsychological tests
to assess personality and emotional status that might lend understanding
to reactions to neurofunctional impairment. |
| Memory Assessment Scales |
This is a comprehensive battery of tests
assessing short-term, verbal, and visual memory. |
| MicroCog |
This computerized assessment measures nine
functional cognitive areas sensitive to brain injury |
| Millon Clinical Multiaxial
Inventory |
A self-report assessment of personality
disorders and clinical syndromes. This is sometimes used as an adjunct
instrument in comprehensive neuropsychological assessment. |
| Mooney Problem Checklist |
This instrument helps individuals
express their personal problems. It covers health and physical
development; home and family; morals and religion; courtship, sex, and
marriage. |
| Multilingual Aphasia Examination |
This set of subtests provides comprehensive
assessment of a wide range of language disorders. |
| North American Reading Test |
This reading test is often used to help
assess premorbid intelligence, for comparison with current intelligence as
measured by more comprehensive tests. |
| Quick Neurological Screening Test |
This is a rapid assessment to
identify possible neurological signs, primarily in motor, sensory, and
perceptual areas. |
| Paced Auditory Serial Attention Test |
Tests for attention deficits including
concentration, speed of processing, mental calculation, and mental
tracking. Sensitive for diagnosing cognitive impairment in individuals 16
and up. |
| Paulhus Deception Scales |
This instrument measures the tendency to give
socially desirable responses, useful for identifying individuals who
distort their responses. |
| Personality Adjective Checklist |
This self-report measure evaluate several
personality patterns, primarily focusing on personality disorders |
| Repeatable Battery for the
Assessment of Neuropsychological Status |
Designed as a brief,
repeatable measure of cognitive decline or stability over time, appropriate
for trauma, disease, or stroke. |
| Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test |
This procedure evaluates the ability to learn
word lists. It is the forerunner of other tests of verbal learning using
lists of words. |
| Rey Complex Figure Test |
This drawing and visual memory test examines
ability to construct a complex figure and remember it for later recall. It
measures memory as well as visual-motor organization. |
| Rey 15-item Memory Test |
This test is used to evaluate potential for
malingering in memory. |
| Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure Test |
Analyzes aspects of visuospatial ability and
memory in all ages. |
| Rivermead Behavioural Memory Test |
Evaluates impairments in everyday memory
related to real life situations. |
| Rogers Criminal Responsibility
Scale |
This instrument is designed to
assess the impairment of an individual at the time a crime was committed. |
| Rorschach Projective Technique |
This familiar inkblot test is
used to evaluate complex psychological dynamics. Persons with brain injury
have been shown to produce certain kinds of responses that can complement
other tests and help to understand personality changes associated with
brain injury. |
| Ruff Figural Fluency Test |
This visual procedure complements verbal
fluency tests in assessing ability to think flexibly but using visual
stimuli rather than words. |
| Sensory Screening Test |
Various procedures include the assessment of
tactile sensitivity to various objects, the ability to recognize objects
by touch, and the ability to detect numbers written on the hands by touch
alone. By examining both sides of the body, inferences may be drawn
regarding possible lateral brain damage. |
| SCL-90 (Symptom Checklist 90) |
This checklist evaluates the individual's
subjective complaints. |
| Shipley Institute
of Living Scale |
Comparison of vocabulary knowledge and ability to figure out
abstract sequential patterns has been established as a sensitive measure of general brain
functioning. |
| Stroop Test |
This brief procedure examines attention, mental
speed, and mental control. |
| Symbol Digit Modalities Test |
Screening test for children and adults to
detect cognitive impairment. |
| Tactual Performance Test |
Assesses speed of motor performance, tactile
perception, spatial problem-solving, and spatial memory in all ages. |
| Test of Memory Malingering |
This test is used to evaluate potential for
malingering in memory. |
| Test of Memory and Learning (TOMAL) |
This test for children and
adolescents measures numerous aspects of memory, assessing learning,
attention, and recall. |
| Test of Memory Malingering |
For ages 16-84, this visual recognition test
helps discriminate malingered from true memory impairments. |
| Thematic Apperception Test |
This projective test is most
commonly used to examine personality characteristics that may aid in
understanding psychological or emotional adjustment to brain injury. |
| Tower of London |
A test for all ages, assessing higher-level
problem-solving, valuable for examining executive functions and strategy
planning. |
| Trail Making Tests A and B |
These tests measure attention, visual searching,
mental processing speed, and the ability to mentally control simultaneous stimulus
patterns. These tests are sensitive to global brain status but are not too sensitive to
minor brain injuries. |
| Validity Indicator Profile |
A complex,
computer-analyzed test for evaluating effort and motivation in test taking. |
| Verbal (Word) Fluency Tests (various) |
There are a variety of verbal fluency tests in use. Each is designed
to measure the speed and flexibility of verbal thought processes. (e.g.,
Controlled Oral Word Association Test; Thurstone Verbal Fluency) |
| Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale—III |
This set of 13 separate "subtests" produces measures of memory, knowledge, problem solving, calculation, abstract thinking, spatial
orientation, planning, and speed of mental processing. In addition to summary measures of
intelligence, performance on each subtest yields implications for different neurofunctional
domains. The set of tests takes about an hour or more to administer. The WAIS-III is often
the foundation for a comprehensive neuropsychological assessment. |
| Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children—III |
Comparable to the Wechsler Adult Intelligence
Scale, this procedure contains subtests that measure similar domains in
children. |
| Wechsler Memory Scale—III |
This set of 18 separate "subtests" yields information
about various kinds of memory and learning processes. Summary memory indices are provided
in addition to the individual scores of the subtests. The whole set of tests takes about
an hour to administer. The WMS-III provides a comprehensive assessment of memory.
It is co-normed with the WAIS-III and is usually used in conjunction with
it. |
| Wechsler Test of Adult Reading |
Provides estimate of pre-morbid intellectual
functioning in persons 18-89, normed with the WAIS-III and WMS-III. |
| Wide Range Achievement Test |
Provides level of performance in reading,
spelling, and written arithmetic. The reading and spelling tests are often
used in estimating premorbid intellectual functioning. |
| Wisconsin Card Sort Test |
Similar in concept to the Category Test, this procedure also
measures the ability to learn concepts. It is considered a good measure of frontal lobe
functioning. |
| Wonderlic Personnel Test |
This personnel test is not a
neuropsychological instrument per se, but is used to help evaluate
vocational abilities and potential for comparison with other
neuropsychological tests in making practical prognostic decisions. |
| Word Memory Test |
A validity procedure
designed to detect response bias that might indicate exaggeration of
impairment or symptom feigning. |
