Table 2.
Neurocognitive tests and dependent measures.
| Test | Dependent Measure |
|---|---|
| IQ Measures | |
| Premorbid IQ | |
| WRAT-3 (Wilkinson, 1993) | Age scaled score for words read correctly |
| Current IQa | |
| WISC-III (Wechsler, 1991)/WAIS-R (Wechsler, 1981) | Sum of age scaled score for Vocabulary and Block Design subscales |
| Neurocognitive Battery | |
| Boston Naming Test (Kaplan, Goodglass et al., 1983) | Number of correctly named items |
| CVLT Adult (Delis, Kramer et al., 1987) | |
| CVLT Child (Delis, Kramer et al., 1994) | |
| Total for trials 1–5 | Words recalled in trials 1-5 |
| Short delay free recall | Words recalled after delay |
| CPT-IP (Cornblatt and Keilp, 1994) | d' (for all stimulus sets) |
| 2-, 3-, 4-digits and shapes | |
| COWAT (Benton and Hamsher, 1989) | Words produced in three 60 second trials |
| Finger Tapping Test, Dominant and Nondominant Hand Scores (Reitan, 1979) | Taps in 10 seconds, over 5 trials |
| Grooved Pegboard Test, Dominant and Nondominant Hand Scores (Matthews and Klove, 1964) | Time to place pegs |
| Judgment of Line Orientation (Benton, Sivan et al., 1983) | Lines accurately matched |
| Letter-Number Span (Gold, Carpenter et al., 1997) | Number of correct trials |
| Ruff Figural Fluency Test (Ruff, 1987) | Number of unique designs generated |
| Trail Making Test, Parts A and B (Reitan, 1979) | Time to complete trails |
| WAIS-R/WISC-III (Wechsler, 1981, 1991) | |
| Digit Span, Forward and Backward | Digit sequences recalled |
| Block Design | Correctly reconstruct blocks to recreate patterns on cards |
| Vocabulary | Number of words correctly defined |
| Information | Number of correct responses |
| WMS-R (Wechsler, 1987) | |
| Logical Memory, Immediate and Delayed | Story elements recalled |
| Visual Reproduction, Immediate and Delayed | Number of correctly reproduced figures |
| WSCT (Heaton, Chelune et al., 1993) | Number of perseverative errors |
| WRAT-3 (Wilkinson, 1993) | Total score for words read correctly |
Abbreviations: WRAT-3, Wide-Range Achievement Test, 3rd Edition; WISC-III, Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, 3rd Edition; WAIS-R, Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, Revised; CVLT, California Verbal Learning Test; CPT-IP, Continuous Performance Test-Identical Pairs; COWAT, Controlled Oral Word Association Test; WMS-R, Wechsler Memory Scale, Revised; WSCT, Wisconsin Card Sorting Test, Version 2.
a
Estimated current full-scale IQ was derived from the Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence (WASI; Wechsler, 1999) for three subjects (BP: N=1; SZ: N=2).