Purpose: Assess neurocognitive functioning

Admin: Individual

Admin time: 10 minutes for cognitively intact clients; 20-30 minutes for cognitively impaired clients

Scoring time: 30 minutes

 

The Cognistat is designed to rapidly assess neurocognitive functioning in three general areas: level of consciousness, orientation, and attention span; and five major ability areas: language, constructional ability, memory, calculation skills, and reasoning/ judgment.

Updated and improved in 2011

• Includes a detailed and expanded discussion of the importance of individual “trait” factors and situational-environmental “state” factors that can affect test performance.

• Provides an outline of commonly used medications that have the potential to affect test performance and a survey of 12 medical factors that frequently invalidate test results.

• Offers a clear and immediately understandable graphic profile of impairments.

• Includes normative information for adolescent, adult, and geriatric populations.

• Provides documentation of the Cognistat’s utility in patients with dementia, stroke, traumatic brain injury, substance abuse, and epilepsy, citing a number of new clinical and research articles.