Neuropsychological Assessment/ Rehab

Neuropsychological tests

Mini- Addenbrooke´s Cognitive Examination (M-ACE)

Also available at: https://sydney.edu.au/brain-mind/resources-for-clinicians/dementia-test.html

The clinical validation study is fundamental for the use of this very short screening neurocognitive test. The conversion of raw scores into z scores is available

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Mini- ACEz Scores converter pass "miguelpeixoto"

Addenbrooke´s Cognitive Examination- III (ACE-III)

Also available at: https://sydney.edu.au/brain-mind/resources-for-clinicians/dementia-test.html

The normalization study and the clinical validation study (research papers section) are fundamentals for the use of this screening neurocognitive test.

The conversion of raw scores into z scores can be performed with a useful excel score sheet gently made by Joana Pinto

ACE-III Download

ACE-III z Scores converter

Numerical Activities of Daily –Living- Financial (NADL- FINANCEIRO)

NADL-F is an instrument for clinical use adapted to the European context. It conceives financial capacity as a result of a wide range of capacities clinically significant to independent functioning. NADL-F is composed by a several tasks: basic monetary capacities, capacity to perform shopping and mental calculations, ability to manage domestic bills and to detect fraud. It includes tasks miming daily activities

NADL- Financeiro

INECO Frontal Screening

Created in the Instituto de Neurología Cognitiva (INECO) in Argentina, INECO frontal screening is very useful for the use in patients with suspected dementia. Instructions and the Portuguese version is provided.

INECO Frontal screening

Instructions

Gandra- BARTA

This test is composed of 59 color photographs of human faces expressing universal recognized emotions (fear, disgust, anger, happiness, sadness and surprise) and neutral expressions, retrieved from the Bolton Affect Recognition Tri-Stimulus Approach (BARTA) database. Each emotion is represented in 9 faces and the neutrals appear in 5 photographs. The stimuli are delivered in a Power-point presentation in a 17” screen. For each photograph the participants is asked to identify the expressed emotion. They are told to answer by verbalizing or pointing to the verbal descriptor or to the cartoon under each descriptor in an A4 sheet placed in front of the subject. There is no time limit for the task. (for further instructions please read the following paper). Gandra- BARTA has shown interesting psychometric characteristic in aging, dementia and acquired brain lesion.

BARTA stimulus reference:

(Lawrence L, Nabi D, Charlton J. The BARTA (University of Bolton Affect Recognition Tri-Stimulus Approach): ‘A systematic journey from emoticons to humans via toontown’. Paper presented at the Annual Conference on British Psychological Society, Glasgow. 2011 May.)

Gandra-BARTA stimulus

Gandra-BARTA A4 descriptor

Gandra-BARTA Correct

Gandra-BARTA A4 1st paper

Escala de Qualidade de Vida no AVC. (Stroke Quality of Life Scale) ECVI-38

ECVI-38 is a 38-item scale covering eight domains. It is filled out by the interviewer in accordance with the answers of the patient or the caregiver. The answers are listed on a Lickert scale with five points, where 5 represents the worst possibility and 1 the absence of the given problem.

ECVI-38 Scale

ECVI-38 paper