Goals of neuropsychological assessment
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Outline – Health & Neuropsychology
Neuropsychological Assessment
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Background on brain function & behavior
Goals of neuropsychological assessment
Psychometric approach – advantages
Psychometric approach – interpretation
Neuropsychological Test Batteries
Halstead-Reitan
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Outline – Health & Neuropsychology
IQ and Neuropsychological Testing
Malingering
Functions of interest to neuropsychologists
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Laterality
Visual Perception
Language
Memory
Attention & Executive Control
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Neuropsychological testing
• Basic ideas:
Human mind is most complex system we
know of in the universe.
Human brain is also very complicated.
As a result, there are many ways that things
can go wrong.
Many combinations of behavioral and mental
impairment following an insult to the brain.
Goals of neuropsychological
assessment
Diagnosis
• What happened?
What went wrong as
a result?
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Goals of neuropsychological
assessment
• Diagnosis
• Description
• Cognitive and
behavioral deficits
that result
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Goals of neuropsychological
assessment
• Diagnosis
• Description
• Tracking changes
• in patient’s
performance over
time, to monitor
healing/worsening
and effects of
treatment
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Psychometric assessment advantages
• Standardized:
• Repeatable
instructions,
presentation, and
tasks
• Norms
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Psychometric assessment advantages
• Standardized
• Intensive:
• Multiple measures
within and among
wide range of
domains
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Psychometric assessment advantages
• Standardized
• Intensive
• Sensitive
• Valid indicators of
skills, capable of
detecting abilities and
deficits
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Psychometric assessment –
advantages
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Standardized
Intensive
Sensitive
Scaled
• Hierarchical items
start/stop rules
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Psychometric assessment –
advantages
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Standardized
Intensive
Sensitive
Scaled
Precise
• Allows reliable,
exacting
quantification of
relative abilities
• Allows comparison
within/over time
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Psychometric assessment –
Interpretation
• Quantitative
observations:
Many tests give
standardized scale
scores (like Wechsler
tests) based on norms
• Actuarial results (e.g.,
Boston Aphasia
Battery) – profile of
subtest scores
indicates nature of
disorder
• Cut-off scores used to
make decisions
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Psychometric assessment –
Interpretation
• Neuropsychologists
also make up tests as
needed – these
typically are not
standardized, so
interpretation may be
problematic.
• Example: linecrossing task used to
detect “neglect”
following righthemisphere brain
damage
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Line-crossing task to detect neglect
• What do we know
about this test? What
cognitive operations
are involved in test
performance?
• Why do neglect
patients fail at this
test?
• Is this test valid?
Reliable?
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IQ and neuropsychological testing
• IQ is frequently of
interest to clinicians
testing a BD patient.
• Often difficult to use a
regular IQ test with
patients – e.g., they
may not understand
instructions, or may
not be able to move
their right hand
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IQ and neuropsychological testing
• We sometimes try to
estimate pre-morbid
IQ on the basis of
education, job, or
other evidence
• Individual IQ subtests
are often used to
assess broader
cognitive skills without
producing a full IQ
score
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Estimating pre-morbid IQ
• Clinical approaches
• Educational level
• Vocabulary skills
• Occupational
background, farm size
• Functional capacities:
self-care, finances,
driver’s license, food
preparation, parenthood,
daily activities
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Estimating pre-morbid IQ
• Clinical approaches
• Actuarial &
psychometric
approaches
• Demographic
Formulas
• Reading level
• Subtest pattern
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Neuropsychological test batteries
• Test batteries are large sets of tests that
tap a variety of skills and abilities
• Developed before the era of scanning, in
part to help locate site of brain damage
• Wide variety, large number of tests
thought necessary because human
behavior is so complex
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To use test batteries or not?
• On the plus side:
Many batteries have known psychometric
properties (e.g., reliability, validity).
Use of standardized procedure permits
comparison of one patient with others, even if
the others are tested by different clinicians.
Tests cover a wide range of cognitive
functions and behaviors
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To use test batteries or not?
• On the minus side:
Test-centered rather than patient-centered
• Time-consuming
• Patient may fail a test for many different reasons
Batteries are developed for general purposes
– may lack flexibility to assess any given
patient’s idiosyncratic deficits.
May reduce clinician’s potentially useful
curiosity, lead to “cookie-cutter reports.”
Halstead Reitan Neuropsychological
Tests
• Ward Halstead
Ph.D. psychologist, taught in U Chicago
Medical School
Through 1940s, devised and tried out many
tests for use with brain-damaged patients
With his student Ralph Reitan, settled on a
battery of tests that allowed comprehensive
evaluation of BD patients
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Reitan’s four-fold approach
• Inferential decisionmaking using the
HRNTB based on:
• Level of performance
• Pattern of
performance
• Specific behavioral
deficits
• Comparison of two
sides of the body
(right-left
comparisons)
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Reitan’s four-fold approach
• Level of performance
• Comparison of
individual with
normative groups of
impaired and nonimpaired persons
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Reitan’s four-fold approach
• Level of performance
• Pattern of
Performance
• Examination of intratest performance and
subtest scores
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Reitan’s four-fold approach
• Level of performance
• Pattern of
Performance
• Specific Behavioral
Deficits
(Pathognomonic
Signs)
• Sensitivity to deviant
or deficient
performance which, of
itself, points to
impairment
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Reitan’s four-fold approach
• Level of performance
• Pattern of
Performance
• Specific Behavioral
Deficits
• Comparison of Two
Sides of the Body
• Looking for
discrepancies in test
performance which
may reveal weakness
or lateralized
impairment
Halstead-Reitan Neuropsychological
Tests
• Category test
Tests abstraction and
reasoning
• Tactual performance
test
Manual dexterity,
spatial memory, tactile
discrimination
• Seashore rhythm test
& Speech-sounds
perception test
Attention,
concentration, auditory
discrimination
• Finger tapping test
Motor speed and
manual dexterity
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Halstead-Reitan Neuropsychological
Tests
• Trail making (see
below)
• Reitan-Indiana
Aphasia Screening
Examination
• Reitan-Klove Sensory
Perceptual Examination
Version of standard
neurological screening test
for sensory processes
• Strength of Grip Test
Uses hand dynamometer
• Lateral Dominance
Examination
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Malingering
• Faking a disorder or
deficit.
• Important for legal
and financial reasons
– people sometimes
fake a deficit in order
to collect insurance
payments, or to
fraudulently obtain
narcotics
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Malingering
• In general, tests to
catch malingering are
based on the fact that
malingerers don’t
know what real
deficits look like –
they often show too
much loss of function.
• Munchausen
Syndrome –
psychopathology
involves faking
illness, but not for
money or drugs
• Rarely treated
successfully
Functions of interest to
neuropsychologists
1. Laterality
2. Visual Perception
3. Language
4. Memory
5. Attention & Executive Control
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1. Laterality
• Compares functions
of the L and R
hemispheres of the
cortex
• Especially important if
neurosurgery is
planned: where are
language functions?
• Language functions
are in left hemisphere
in most people,
bilateral in some
• Annett Handedness
Questionnaire
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Annett Handedness Questionnaire
Please indicate which hand you habitually use for each of the following: (R, L or E)
1. Writing
2. Throwing a ball
3. Holding a racquet
4. Striking a match
5. Cut with scissors
6. Threading a needle
7. At top of broom
8. At top of shovel
9. To deal cards
10. To hammer a nail
11. To hold a toothbrush
12. To unscrew a lid
There are several ways to score this test
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2. Visual Perception
• Visual field deficits –
informal assessment:
clinician moves
fingers into patient’s
field of vision from the
side. Patient
announces when
he/she can see
fingers.
• Assessed more
precisely using
special optometry
equipment.
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2. Visual Perception
• Agnosia – inability to
recognize familiar
objects visually.
• Objects can be
recognized on basis
of sound (e.g.,
lawnmower)
• Meaning of objects
has not been lost –it’s
a deficit of visual
recognition.
• To test – ask patient
to name various
objects
Figure/ground
discrimination
– separate
figure from
background
The embedded
figures test – task
is to find all the
objects in this
figure.
The objects in the embedded figures
test stimulus
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Visual agnosias
• visual object agnosia
– inability to identify
common visual
objects
• prosopagnosia –
inability to recognize
familiar faces
• color agnosia –
inability to
discriminate between
colors and to name
colors
• simultanagnosia –
visual perception of
simultaneously
presented objects is
impaired
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Visual Memory
• Rey-Osterrieth figure
complicated, abstract
figure (next slide)
patient looks at it
briefly then asked to
reproduce the figure
from memory
• scoring is quite
complex
• assesses visual
memory, visual
construction skill
The Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure (Osterrieth, 1946)
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3. Language
A very important function for humans, typically
mediated by left hemisphere
Expressive and receptive language can be
independently lost or spared
Batteries include Boston Diagnostic Aphasia
Examination and Western Aphasia Battery
(developed at UWO School of Medicine)
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Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination
• Oral Expression –
word repetition, body
part naming, visual
confrontation naming
• Writing
• Auditory
comprehension: Body
part identification
• Understanding written
language: Word
picture matching.
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3. Language
• Task-specific tests
used with patients
having comparatively
isolated dysfunctions
• Graded Naming Test
or Boston Naming
Test - both assess
ability to name
objects.
• Token Test - detects
non-obvious loss of
receptive language
• Pyramid & Palm
Trees Test - tests the
understanding of
words
Graded Naming Test examples –
test has 30 of these, presented in
order of increasing difficulty
Boston Naming Test examples
Pyramid
Palm
Tree
3 Picture Version
Fir
Tree
3 Word Version
Pyramid and Palm Trees Test – which one of
the two lower items goes with the upper item?
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4. Memory
• Amnesia is loss of
episodic (personal)
memory, which may
include knowledge of
public people/events
• Two distinct kinds of
amnesia:
• Retrograde – loss of
memory for events
from patient’s past
Old things in memory
cannot be retrieved
• Anterograde – loss of
ability to store new
memories.
New things cannot be
put into memory
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Retrograde amnesia
• Boston Remote
Memory test
• 2 types of questions
Easy
Hard
• 2 types of material
Name famous faces
(hints given if needed)
Events – asked to
recall information
about them
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Anterograde amnesia
• Warrington’s
Recognition Memory
Test
50 faces and 50 words
presented separately
2AFC test
administered
immediately after
learning phase
• Mild impairment in
young patients not
detected
• Severely impaired
patients may perform
at chance. Then, it’s
hard to tell what’s
wrong with their
memory
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Anterograde amnesia
• Wechsler Memory
Scale III
Separate short-term
and long-term
retention scores
Tries to differentiate
between verbal and
non-verbal elements of
memory
• Includes recall and
recognition tests
• 2+ hours to
administer
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5. Attention & Executive Control
• Spatial attention: Line
bisection, cancellation
tasks
• Sustained attention /
vigilance: Continuous
performance test
(CPT)
• Focused attention:
Dichotic listening /
visual search
• Divided attention:
Trail making, task
combinations
Trails B
Trails A
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D
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6
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A
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C
B
10
5
3
E
Trails A and Trails B – from Halstead-Reitan test battery
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5. Attention & Executive Control
• Executive functions
Assess higher cortical
functions such as
planning, response
inhibition, controlled
functions (e.g., new
task, or new
environment).
• Wisconsin Card Sort
Task used frequently
Sort by
number
Sort by
color
Sort according to unspoken rule; examiner changes rule – can
patient adapt to new rule?