TABLE 6.
AAT | Aachen Aphasia Test |
ACC | anterior cingulate cortex |
ACT | Auditory Comprehension Tests |
AD | Alzheimer’s disease |
ANT | Attention Network Task |
AWF | Test of Adolescent/Adult Word Finding |
BADS | Behavioral Assessment of the Dysexecutive Syndrome |
BDT | Block Design Test |
BNT | Boston Naming Test |
BOLD | blood oxygen level-dependent |
BSAT | Brixton Spatial Anticipation Test |
BSRT | Buschke Selective Reminding Test |
BVRT | Benton Visual Retention Test |
CBF | cerebral blood flow |
CMT | custom-made tests |
COWAT | Controlled Oral Word Association Test |
CP 1 | computerized paradigms involving matching, visual search, reading comprehension, visual recognition, figure/ground discrimination and motion perception |
CP 2 | computerized paradigms involving reflexive saccades, anti-saccades, memory-guided saccade sequences, self-paced saccades and both sine and random oculomotor smooth pursuits |
CP 3 | computerized paradigms involving an output accessory |
CPT | Continuous Performance Test |
CRTT | Simple Choice Reaction Time Task |
CSAT | Complex Selective Attention Task |
CT | computed tomography |
CVLT II | California Verbal Learning Test II |
D-KEFS | Delis–Kaplan Executive Function System |
DMN | default mode network |
dMRI | diffusion magnetic resonance imaging |
DPT | Doors and People Test |
DS | Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale III Digit Span |
DSCT | Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale III Digit Symbol Coding Task |
DSM-5 | Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 5 |
DTI | diffusion tensor imaging |
DTT | Dual-Task Tests |
DVT | Digit Vigilance Test |
EF | executive function |
FC | functional correlation |
fMRI | functional magnetic resonance imaging |
FWM | Four Word Short-Term Memory Test |
G/N and SST | Go/No-go and Stop-Signal Task |
GAD | generalized anxiety disorder |
GCS | Glasgow Coma Score |
GM | gray matter |
HC | healthy control |
HSCT | Hayling Sentence Completion Test |
HVOT | Hooper Visual Organization Test |
IED | Intra-Extra Dimensional Set Shift Test (part of the Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery) |
IGT | Iowa Gambling Task |
ITTI | Implicit Test of Tachistoscopic Identification |
L&M | learning and memory |
LGST | Local-Global Switching Tasks |
LOC | loss of consciousness |
LOJT | Line Orientation Judgment Test |
MC 1 and 2 | Memory Cabinet 1 and 2 |
MCI | mild cognitive impairment |
MCT | Monotone Counting Test |
mPFC | medial prefrontal cortex |
MRI | magnetic resonance imaging |
msTBI | moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury |
mTBI | mild traumatic brain injury |
NAB | Neuropsychological Assessment Battery |
N-Back | N-Back Working Memory Task |
NST | Numeric Stroop Test |
NSTT | Narrative Story-Telling Tests |
PASAT | Paced Auditory Serial Addition Test |
PCC | posterior cingulate cortex |
PCDS | post-concussive depressive symptom |
PCS | post-concussive symptom |
PET | positron emission tomography |
PF A and B | Prioritization forms A and B |
PFC | prefrontal cortex |
PMT | Porteus Maze Test |
PN and SM | Picture Naming and Semantic Priming tests |
PPVT | Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test |
PTA | post-traumatic amnesia |
PTSD | post-traumatic stress disorder |
PVSAT | Paced Visual Serial Addition Test |
RAVLT | Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test |
RCFT | Rey Complex Figure Test |
RFFT | Ruff Figural Fluency Test |
RIDR | Rey’s 15-word Immediate and Delayed Recall Test |
RME | Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test |
rs | resting state |
SA | self-awareness |
SART | Sustained Attention to Response Task |
SCWT | Stroop Color-Word Test |
SDMT | Symbol Digit Modalities Test |
SP | Sternberg Paradigm for Verbal and Visuo-spatial Working Memory |
SRTT | Serial Reaction Time Task |
TAI | traumatic axonal injury |
TAP | Test of Attentional Performance |
TBI | traumatic brain injury |
TMT-A | Trail-Making Test A |
TMT-B | Trail-Making Test B |
TOHT | Tower of Hanoi Task |
TOL | Tower of London Test |
ToM | theory of mind |
TT | Token Test |
TWFD | Test of Word Finding in Discourse |
US | United States |
VFT | verbal fluency tests |
WAIS | Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale |
WASI | Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence |
WCST | Wisconsin Card Sorting Test |
WM | white matter |
WMS | Wechsler Memory Scale |
WMT | Word Memory Test |
Following convention, all names of psychometric tests, tasks, batteries, forms and scales are capitalized.