We report on a 75-year-old female who consulted our Memory Clinic because of subjective memory complaints that she first recognized three months previously. Next to the standard detailed patient history, neuropsychological assessment, psychopathological status, the patient’s driving history played an important role in the diagnostic process. In this case report, we illustrate the diagnostic pro...

the practice of neuropsychology within athletic settings. In recent months, the NFL acknowledged potential risks associated with football and the long-term health of professional athletes. The death of University of Pennsylvania football player, Owen Thomas, drew particular attention after the New York Times reported that his autopsy showed evidence of chronic traumatic encephalopathy. Media co...

Neuropsychological assessments are designed to identify the extent and severity of a patient’s cognitive and behavioral impairments. They allow us to determine a pattern of relative cognitive strengths and weaknesses, which indirectly yields information about the structural and functional integrity of a patient’s brain. Neuropsychologists use standardized tests to evaluate cognitive abilities s...

Brain damage constitutes a major problem for those affected, for their families and friends and for society as a whole. The need for effective rehabilitation strategies is clear. Yet, until the early 1960s, the brain was generally considered to be a somewhat fixed and inflexible organ. In consequence the impairments associated with brain damage were generally regarded as "incurable". Since that...

Serious games have grown rapidly to provide cognitive stimulation for people with impairment. In this endeavour, we created the COSMA games. two-arm study patients mild impairment (MCI), investigated information processing speed and skills 28 days of use games, a brain gaming platform. We measured reaction times during neuropsychological assessment Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Ba...

INTRODUCTION U.S. military troops deploying to war zones are currently administered the Automated Neuropsychological Assessment Metrics (ANAM4) Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Battery to establish individual neurocognitive performance baselines. In part, the utility of the ANAM4 TBI Battery baseline measurement depends on test-retest reliability of this instrument. The purpose of this report was t...