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Purpose
Assesses neurocognitive functioning
Authors
Ralph J. Kiernan, PhD, Jonathan Mueller, MD, and J. William Langston, MD
Administration Formats
Additional Details
Quickly Assess Neurocognitive Functioning in Clients 12 Years and Older
The Cognistat is designed to rapidly assess neurocognitive functioning in three general areas: level of consciousness, orientation, and attention span; and five major ability areas: language, constructional ability, memory, calculation skills, and reasoning/judgment.
Features and benefits
- Includes a detailed and expanded discussion of the importance of individual “trait” factors and situational-environmental “state” factors that can affect test performance.
- Provides an outline of commonly used medications that have the potential to affect test performance and a survey of 12 medical factors that frequently invalidate test results.
- Offers a clear and immediately understandable graphic profile of impairments.
- Includes normative information for adolescent, adult, and geriatric populations.
- Provides documentation of the Cognistat’s utility in patients with dementia, stroke, traumatic brain injury, substance abuse, and epilepsy, citing a number of new clinical and research articles.
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