A Compendium of Neuropsychological Tests Fundamentals of Neuropsychological Assessment and Test Reviews for Clinical Practice

The Compendium is an essential guidebook for selecting the right test for specific clinical situations and for helping clinicians make empirically supported test interpretations.

BL Revised and updated
BL Over 85 test reviews of well-known neuropsychological tests and scales for adults
BL Includes tests of premorbid estimation, dementia screening, IQ, attention, executive functioning, memory, language, visuospatial skills, sensory function, motor skills, performance validity, and symptom validity
BL Covers basic and advanced aspects of neuropsychological assessment including psychometric principles, reliability, test validity, and performance/symptom validity testing

Dr. Sherman is the Director of Brain Health and Psychological Health at the Copeman Healthcare Centre and is a clinical neuropsychologist with expertise in brain health and neuropsychological assessment. She also heads a private practice in neuropsychology where she conducts medico-legal assessments.

Dr. Jing Ee Tan has appointments as Clinical Assistant Professor in the Division of Neurology at the University of British Columbia and as Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Victoria, her alma mater. Her primary clinical practice is in the Epilepsy Program at Vancouver General Hospital in British Columbia, Canada, where she also supervises predoctoral residents and practicum students.

Dr. Marianne Hrabok is a clinical psychologist and an Associate Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Alberta.

LIST OF ACRONYMS

1. Psychometrics in Neuropsychological Assessment

2. Validity and Reliability in Neuropsychological Assessment: New Perspectives

3. Performance Validity, Symptom Validity, and Malingering Criteria

4. Premorbid Estimation

National Adult Reading Test (NART)
Oklahoma Premorbid Intelligence Estimate - IV (OPIE-IV)
Test of Premorbid Functioning (TOPF)

5. Intelligence

Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test, Second Edition (KBIT-II)
Raven's Progressive Matrices
Reynolds Intellectual Assessment Scales, Second Edition (RIAS-2) and Reynolds Intellectual Screening Test, Second Edition (RIST-2)
Test of Nonverbal Intelligence, Fourth Edition (TONI-4)
Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence - Second Edition (WASI-II)
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale - Fourth Edition (WAIS-IV)
Woodcock-Johnson IV Tests of Cognitive Abilities (WJ IV COG)

6. Neuropsychological Batteries and Related Scales

CNS Vital Signs (CNS VS)
Kaplan Baycrest Neurocognitive Assessment (KBNA)
Neuropsychological Assessment Battery (NAB)
Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status (RBANS)
Ruff Neurobehavioral Inventory (RNBI)

7. Dementia Screening

7 Minute Screen (7MS)
Abbreviated Mental Test (AMT)
Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale - Cognitive (ADAS-Cog)
Clinical Dementia Rating (CDR)
Dementia Rating Scale - 2 (DRS-2)
General Practitioner Assessment of Cognition (GPCOG)
Memory Impairment Screen (MIS)
Mini-Cog
Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), Mini-Mental State Examination, 2nd Edition (MMSE-2), and Modified Mini-Mental State Examination (3MS)
Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA)
Saint Louis University Mental Status Examination (SLUMS)
Short Portable Mental Status Questionnaire (SPMSQ)

8. Attention

Brief Test of Attention (BTA)
Conners Continuous Performance Test 3rd Edition (CPT 3)
Integrated Visual and Auditory Continuous Performance Test, Second Edition (IVA-2)
Paced Auditory Serial Addition Test (PASAT)
Ruff 2&7 Selective Attention Test (2 & 7 Test)
Symbol Digit Modalities Test (SDMT)
Test of Everyday Attention (TEA)
Test of Variables of Attention (T.O.V.A.)

9. Executive Functioning

Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function - Adult Version (BRIEF-A)
Behavioural Assessment of the Dysexecutive Syndrome (BADS)
Category Test (CAT)
Clock Drawing Test (CDT)
Cognitive Estimation Test (CET)
Delis-Kaplan Executive Function System (D-KEFS)
Design Fluency
Dysexecutive Questionnaire (DEX)
Five-Point Test
Frontal Systems Behavior Scale (FrSBE)
Hayling and Brixton Tests
Ruff Figural Fluency Test (RFFT)
Self-Ordered Pointing Test (SOPT)
Stroop Test
Trail Making Test (TMT)
Verbal Fluency Test
Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST)

10. Memory

Benton Visual Retention Test Fifth Edition (BVRT-5)
Brief Visuospatial Memory Test - Revised (BVMT-R)
California Verbal Learning Test - Second Edition (CVLT-II)
Continuous Visual Memory Test (CVMT)
Doors and People Test (DPT)
Hopkins Verbal Learning Test - Revised (HVLT-R)
Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test (RAVLT)
Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure Test (RCFT)
Rivermead Behavioural Memory Test - Third Edition (RBMT-3)
Ruff-Light Trail Learning Test (RULIT)
Selective Reminding Test (SRT)
Tactual Performance Test (TPT)
Warrington Recognition Memory Test (WRMT)
Wechsler Memory Scale - Fourth Edition (WMS-IV)

11. Language

Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination Third Edition (BDAE-3)
Boston Naming Test Second Edition (BNT-2)
Dichotic Listening
Expressive One-Word Picture Vocabulary Test, 4th Edition (EOWPVT-4)
Expressive Vocabulary Test, Second Edition (EVT-2)
Multilingual Aphasia Examination Third Edition (MAE-3)
Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, Fourth Edition (PPVT-4)
Token Test

12. Visual-Spatial Skills

Bender Visual-Motor Gestalt Test, Second Edition (BGT-II)
Benton Facial Recognition Test (FRT)
Hooper Visual Organization Test (HVOT)
Judgment of Line Orientation (JLO)
Visual Object and Space Perception Battery (VOSP)

13. Sensory Function

Bells Cancellation Test
Finger Localization
Right-Left Orientation
University of Pennsylvania Smell Identification Test (UPSIT)

14. Motor Function

Finger Tapping Test (FTT)
Grip Strength
Grooved Pegboard Test
Purdue Pegboard Test

15. Performance Validity

21-Item Test
b Test
Dot Counting Test (DCT)
Medical Symptom Validity Test (MSVT)
Nonverbal MSVT (NV-MSVT)
Rey Fifteen-Item Test (FIT)
Test of Memory Malingering (TOMM)
Victoria Symptom Validity Test (VSVT)
Advanced Clinical Solutions (ACS) Word Choice
Word Memory Test (WMT)

16. Symptom Validity

Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Test - 2 (MMPI-2)
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Test - 2 Restructured Form (MMPI-2-RF)
Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI)
Structured Inventory of Malingered Symptomatology (SIMS)

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