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. 2015 May 20;4(5):1051–1062. doi: 10.3390/jcm4051051

Table 2.

Recommendations for a standardized assessment of cognition and affective state/mood (for a detailed and comprehensive description of assessment measures, see [60]).

Domains Test(s)
Premorbid intelligence Verbal IQ-scale of the WAIS-R; National Adult Reading Test (NART)
Attention
Alertness (vigilance) Reaction time with (phasic alertness) and without warning signals (tonic alertness)
Information processing capacity Trail Making Test (TMT) A
Sustained attention Continued Performance Tests (CPT)
Divided attention Test (PASAT) Stroop Test; Symbol Digit Modalities Test (SDMT); Paced Auditory Serial Addition
Spatial attention cancellation tests; visual search tests
Memory
Short-term memory digit span forward; block tapping forward
Working memory digit span backward; block tapping backward
Semantic memory
Verbal memory Auditory Verbal Learning tests; story recall (Logical Memory; WMS III/IV)
Visual memory Visual reproductions (WMS III/IV); Camden Memory tests
Executive function
Planning/problem solving Raven’s Coloured Progressive Matrices (RCPM); Porteus Maze Test; Tower of London Test
Cognitive flexibility Trail making Test (TMT) B; Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST); verbal fluency tests (COWAT)
Multi-tasking Symbol Digit Modalities Test (SDMT); Paced Auditory Serial Addition Test (PASAT); Stroop Tests
Affective state/mood Hospital anxiety and depression scale (HADS); Geriatric depression scale (GDS)