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)