Neuropsychological Evaluation Expanded environment Flashcards
Zarit and Zarit Caregiver Burden Scale
Self administered questionnaire, whose original version consists of 22 items.
Evaluates the subjective perception of overburden.
Selection of tests is influenced by…
Theoretical approach of the psychologist
Patient’s age
Neurological condition
Clinical procedures for neuropsychological diagnosis
Psychometric: tests - Limitation: little qualitative analysis
Clinical: uses psychometric tools appropiate to the conditions of the patient. Requieres more knowledge.
Mini-mental Status Examination
Neuropsi
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale
Woodcook Psychoeducational Battery
Some diagnostic tests frequently used in NP in General cognitive level
(General intellectual function of the patient)
Strenght
Finger Oscilation Test
Alternating Movement Sequences
Lateral Dominance Examination
Ideomotor and Ideational Praxis Test
Some diagnostic tests frequently used in NP in Motor skills
Digit span (forward and backwards)
Mental control (Wechsler Memory Scale)
Cancellation or Continuous Performance Test
Digit Symbol (Wechsler Intelligence Scale)
Serial Substraction
Trail Making Test
Neuropsi Attention and Memory
Some diagnostic tests frequently used in NP in Attention
●Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination
●Boston Naming Test
●Token Test
●Multilingual Aphasia Examination
●Reading, writing, and grammar tests in Spanish
●Verbal fluency tests (semantic and phonological)
Some diagnostic tests frequently used in NP in Language
●Point localization
●Two-point discrimination
●Extinction in the presence of simultaneous double stimulation
●Finger recognition
●Object recognition
Some diagnostic tests frequently used in NP in Somatosensory
● Right-left recognition
● Copy of the Rey-Osterrieth complex figure
● Cube design and puzzles
● Spontaneous drawing
● Drawing of a clock
● Recognition of overlapping figures (Poppelreuter type)
● Recognition of schematized figures
● Recognition and localization of points on a map
● Semmes test
● Line orientation recognition
● Line bisection test
● Visual neglect test
● Face recognition test
Some diagnostic tests frequently used in NP in Visuospatial and constructional skills
●Digits
●Corsi blocks
●Wechsler memory scale
●Benton visual memory test
●Serial verbal learning (memory curve)
●Immediate and/or delayed reproduction of the Rey-Osterrieth figure
●California verbal learning test
Some diagnostic tests frequently used in NP in Memory
●Categorization test
●Wisconsin card sorting test
●Stroop test
●Analogies (Wechsler intelligence scale)
●Arithmetic problem solving
●Pyramid of Mexico
●Tower of Hanoi
Some diagnostic tests frequently used in NP in Executive functions
●Reading
○ Loud voice
○ Silent
●Writing
○ Copying
○ Dictation
○ Spontaneous
●Calculation
○ Precurrentes
○ Mathematical operations
○ Mathematical problems
Academic skills
Interpretation of the results of the evaluation
Obtain the execution profile, convert raw scores to standard scores, level according to the patient, look for causes of the lower scores, consider etiologies based in the history of the patient, finally give recommendations.
Greater guarantees of result interpretation
Control of variables, informal observation, knowledge of the pathology and medical history, understanding of the brain-behavior relationships, flexibility throghout the process.
Neuropsychological report
Diagnosis and recommendations in a formal and explicit language.
