Neurocognitive Domains and Neuropsychological Testing
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DEFINITION
- Neurocognitive tests are informative evaluation tools for assessing an individual’s functional capacity as pertaining to the neurocognitive domains as defined by DSM-5:
Perceptual-motor Function | Abilities subsumed under the terms visual perception, visuo-constructional, perceptual-motor, praxis and gnosis |
Language | Expressive language (including naming, word finding, fluency, grammar and syntax) and receptive language |
Executive Function | Planning, decision making, working memory, responding to feedback/error correction, overriding habits/inhibition, mental flexibility |
Learning and Memory | Immediate memory, recent memory (including free recall, cued recall and recognition memory), very long-term memory semantic; autobiographical, implicit learning |
Complex Attention | Sustained attention, divided attention, selective attention, processing speed |
Social Cognition | Recognition of emotions, theory of mind, or estimating what others might be thinking and feeling |
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