Using the trail making test with hemiplegic patients: Is it OK?

Comprehensive Trail-Making Test (CTMT)

Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology had this to say about the CTMT: The CTMT is an invaluable, meticulously constructed, nationally normed, reliable and valid new psychometric instrument. It provides clinicians and research workers with a hierarchy of specific as well as global summary measures that operationally define important basic and complex components of executive function. Its componen...

The Shape Trail Test: Application of a New Variant of the Trail Making Test

OBJECTIVE The Trail making test (TMT) is culture-loaded because of reliance on the Latin alphabet, limiting its application in Eastern populations. The Shape Trail Test (STT) has been developed as a new variant. This study is to examine the applicability of the STT in a senile Chinese population and to evaluate its potential advantages and disadvantages. METHOD A total of 2470 participants we...

Alternative Type of the Trail Making Test in Nonnative English-Speakers: The Trail Making Test-Black & White

OBJECTIVE The Trail Making Test (TMT) has its limitations when applied to Eastern cultures due to its reliance on the alphabet. We looked for an alternative tool that is reliable and distinguishable like the TMT and devised the Trail Making Test Black & White (TMT-B&W) as a new variant. This study identifies the applicability of the TMT-B&W as a useful neuropsychological tool and determines whe...

Neurocognitive correlates of the trail making test for older children in patients with traumatic brain injury.

Studies have found that processing speed and working memory influence performance on the Trail Making Test (TMT), though little research is available in this regard for the TMT for Children (TMT-C), particularly in clinical populations. The purpose of the present study was to examine cognitive mechanisms that are thought to underline performance on the TMT-C in a sample of children who sustaine...

Quantitative Dengue Test: Is it Practical for Clinical Practice?