neuropsychological tests

Halstead-reitan neuropsychological battery

comprehensive battery of tests

scores are compared to norms/performance on subtests compared to each other

purpose: identify people with brain damage/ provide detailed info about your Bain damage or localization of damage

how: auditory discrimination, motor skills, touch, abstract reasoning, executive functioningand spatial abilities.

HBR subtest: trailmaking

alternates from letter to number or connect nubers

tests: visual attention, visual scanning, motor skills, executive functioning, cognitive flexibility, processing speed

visual motor gestalt test

copying test using 9 geometric designs

can suggest brain damage in a diffuse

Rey-osterrieth complex figure test

copy,immediate recall, delayed recall

scored for accuracy of reproduction/location of elements

info to distinguish between/w ild brain injury/storage/retrieval

Wisconsin card sort

set of cards and told to put in order but not given rules. rules can change at different points

test: abstract reasoning, problem solving, shifting sets, cognitive flexibility, preservation