PSYC 330 Lecture Notes - Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, Traumatic Brain Injury, Frontal Lobe
21 Apr 2013
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Paper and pencil tests (bedside tests, easy to administer) Goal is to draw a line from 1-20 (in order) Version 2 includes a-z and you alternate between the two sets. Limitation: performance may reflect some form of attention deficit, but doesn"t say beyond that (i. e. , what kind, how severe) Hold the last two digits that they hear in memory and add them. Limitation: also only indicates some type of deficit but not specific. Different from the previous ones b/c it has different subtests: Divided attention (4 crosses on screen that move around, when they line up to form a square, press button while doing auditory task where you press button when the auditory pattern changes) Express saccades (attentional disengagement; e. g. , quicker saccades when fixation cross disappears before the target shows up) Alternate between trials that involve making a decision on letters and trails that involve making decisions on shapes.
