Clinical Neuropsychology

1. Clinical Neuropsychology Neuropsychological Tests

2. Commonly Used Scores • T-Scores • Mean = 50 • Standard Deviation = 10 • Standard Scores • Mean = 100 • Standard Deviation = 15 • Scaled Scores • Mean = 10 • Standard Deviation = 3

3. Pre-morbid Functioning • School Records • Collateral Information • Job History • Past Testing • Oklahoma Premorbid Intelligence Estimate (OPIE) • Wide Range Achievement Test 3rd Ed (WRAT-III)

4. Neuropsychological Tests • Intellectual Functioning Tests • WAIS-IV • Raven’s Progressive Matrices • Repeatable Battery for Neuropsychological Status (RBANS) • Sensory-Motor Tests • Finger writing • Touch Discrimination • Rapid Alternative Movements • Stressed Ambulation (Heel Toe, Backward, One Foot Standing, One Foot Hopping) • Memory Test • Verbal Learning Tests • Complex Figure Tests • Contextual Verbal Learning Tests • Facial Memory Tests • Motor Functioning • Finger Tapping Test • Measures of Executive Functioning • Booklet Categories Test • Wisconsin Card Sorting Test • Trailmaking Parts A and B

5. Case Example • 36 Year-Old Male • Married 8 years, 3 kids • Chronic problems holding jobs and maintaining focus • ADHD Diagnosis • Problems doing chores (cleaning living room “I can’t get my head around it”) • “I get to my limit and my brain shuts down” • No Head injuries • Near Drowning “I woke up on the bank of the canal, my cousin said I was only down for a few seconds, but it seemed like hours” • Hit by truck 15 years old “going between 28 and 33 Miles per hour” “Went into shock immediately” “Dazed and swearing I couldn’t control myself” • I have a lot to offer but it doesn’t transfer into practice

6. Testing • WAIS-III

7. Wisconsin Card Sort