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Published in Bhaskar Punukollu, Michael Phelan, Anish Unadkat, MRCPsych Part 1 In a Box, 2019
Bhaskar Punukollu, Michael Phelan, Anish Unadkat
Halstead Reitan Neuropsychological Battery: A set of tests that examines language, attention, motor speed, abstract thinking, memory and spatial reasoning and can be used to produce an overall assessment of brain function.
Application of the neuropsychological evaluation in vocational planning after brain injury
Published in Robert T. Fraser, David C. Clemmons, Traumatic Brain Injury Rehabilitation, 2017
Ms. Smith was involuntarily re-admitted to Community General Hospital for approximately two weeks in 1995 due to poor impulse control and low frustration tolerance. She could not care for herself or her children on the day of admission and apparently became uncontrollable when her children were removed from her custody and given to her mother. During her hospital stay, neuropsychological testing was obtained at which time her intelligence was considered to be in the dull normal range. On the Halstead-Reitan Neuropsychological Battery, the client was impaired on 70% of the tests administered. She showed problems with abstract thinking and problem-solving as well as memory, learning, and behavioral controls. The evaluation revealed moderate to severe loss of intellectual and adaptive abilities. It was recommended that she be enrolled in a cognitive re-training program.
Research Methodology: Probability, Statistics, and Psychometric Tests Employed in Herbal Medicine Studies
Published in Ethan Russo, Handbook of Psychotropic Herbs, 2015
Broad-based measures specifically assessing cerebral functions are also useful in this type of research. Within this realm, the Halstead-Reitan Neuropsychological Battery is frequently used. This battery consists of numerous individual tests that can be interpreted either individually or in terms of the overall data pattern. Specific summary indices and standardized T-scores (normalized score with a mean of 50 and a standard deviation of 10) are available that adjust for age, education, and gender (Heaton, Grant, and Matthews, 1991). It is beyond the scope of this chapter to address the specifics of the Halstead-Reitan Neuropsychological Battery. The interested reader is referred to the immense body of literature available elsewhere on this set of assessment procedures. It is useful to note, however, that, although very comprehensive and useful, one drawback of the Halstead-Reitan battery is the length of time necessary to administer and score it. Thus, other, shorter, measures of cerebral functioning frequently are utilized, particularly in the context of demented populations.
Cognitive differences between adults with traumatic brain injury and specific learning disorder
Published in Brain Injury, 2021
John-Christopher Finley, Emily F. Matusz, Frederick Parente
Information regarding participant demographics and cognitive functioning were obtained from the records of a licensed psychologist who had carried out the assessment of those participants. Again, no identifying personal information was included in the data set. All participants were tested individually, completing a battery of neuropsychological tests. The battery was administered in a single session with requested breaks, for an average of five hours each. Based on the notion that working memory, processing speed, and attention deficits may confound TBI and SLD etiology, the authors of the current study only analyzed data from tests that measured these constructs: Trail Making Test Part A and B from the Halstead-Reitan Neuropsychological Battery (10) and Digit Span and Symbol Search from the Wechsler’s Adult Intelligence Scale, third edition (11). Data were recorded and analyzed as age-adjusted scores. Given that the tests were administered in the late 1990’s, the authors selected subtests from the database that remain commercially available and psychometrically sound (i.e., adequate reliability and construct validity) for individuals with TBI and SLD (12–15).
Cognitive rehabilitation after severe acquired brain injury: current evidence and future directions
Published in Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 2018
Rosaria De Luca, Rocco Salvatore Calabrò, Placido Bramanti
In the acute phase, the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS), the most commonly used system for classifying TBI severity, grades a person’s level of consciousness on a scale of 3–15, based on verbal, motor, and eye-opening reactions to stimuli. In severe TBI (GCS score < 8) the cognitive deficits are pervasive, with the most profound impairments in the domains of attention, working memory, learning, and executive functions (Dikmen et al., 2009; Jannett & Bond, 1975; Millis et al., 2001). Thus, a proper neuropsychological assessment is needed in all the patients suffering from SABI, although it may be “time-consuming” and requires special expertise to administer and interpret the tests (Cristofori & Levin, 2015; Iaccarino, Bhatnagar, & Zafonte, 2015). In TBI, neuropsychological assessment (using specific tools, including the Halstead-Reitan Neuropsychological Battery) (Lezak, 1995) is often performed during hospitalisation. The Galveston Orientation and Amnesia Test (GOAT) is a repeatable test, investigating post-traumatic amnesia and helping to predict TBI outcome (Levin, O’Donnell, & Grossman, 1979). Since frontal lobe dysfunction is frequent post-TBI, the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST), Category Test and Stroop Tests should also be used (Lezak, Howieson, & Loring, 2004; Lezak, Howieson, Bigler, & Tranel, 2012).
Force Increase in a Repetitive Motor Task Inducing Motor Fatigue
Published in Journal of Motor Behavior, 2019
Maria Rönnefarth, Rouven Bathe-Peters, Andreas Jooss, Linus Haberbosch, Michael Scholz, Sein Schmidt, Stephan A. Brandt
We recorded tapping force with a force sensor and compared it to the standard inter-tap interval (ITI) measurement as commercially available, e.g. as part of the Halstead-Reitan Neuropsychological Battery (Reitan & Wolfson, 2009; Shimoyama et al., 1990). Results showed an unexpected increase of tapping force over time not correlated to tapping speed decrease. Force sensor reliably assesses tapping speed decrease and provides additional parameters that we suggest reflect independent aspects associated with task induced fatigue.