Table 4. Neuropsychological Test Battery

Table 4. Neuropsychological test battery

Attention span/Working memory
WAIS-IIIa Digit Span (Sum Forward and Backward) / Weschler 1997
Mental flexibility
StroopColor and Word Test / Golden 1978
Trail making Test form B / Retain, Wolfson 1985; Periáñez et al. 2007
Verbal fluency
Controlled Oral Word Association Test (FAS) / Tombaugh et al. 1999
Category Fluency (Animals) / Tombaugh et al. 1999
Speed of information processing
Trail making Test – Form A / Retain, Wolfson 1985; Periañez et al. 2007
WAIS-IIIa Digit Symbol / Weschler 1997
WAIS-IIIa Symbol Search / Weschler 1997
Learning
VerbalSelective Reminding Test
(Consistent Long-Term Retrieval) / Buschke, Fuld1974; Morales et al, 2010
Brief Visuospatial Memory Test – Revised (Total Learning) / Benedict 1997
Delayed recall
Verbal Selective Reminding Test
(Delayed Recall) / Buschke, Fuld1974; Morales et al. 2010
Brief Visuospatial Memory Test–Revised (Delayed Recall) / Benedict 1997
Fine motor skills
Grooved Pegboard Test-Dominant hand score / Trites 1977
Grooved Pegboard Test- Non dominant hand score / Trites 1977
Premorbid functioning (estimation)
WAIS-IIIa Vocabulary subtest / Weschler 1997

aWAIS-III=Weschler Adult Intelligence Scale 3rd

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