Trail-making test

Test (WCST Heaton, Chelune, Talley, Kay, Curtiss, 1993), Category Test and Trail Making Tests (Reitan Wolfson, 1985), Stroop Test (Stroop, 1935), and other tests developed by R. M. Ruff that bear his name. There are many newer ones that may be appropriate to use as well, depending upon the suspected problem you want to assess. Some of these neuropsychological tests can be self-administered, either on a computer or by paper and pencil. However, many of these tests must be administered and results interpreted by a highly trained therapist, usually a clinical psychologist. 

Crowe SF. 1998. The differential contribution of mental tracking, cognitive flexibility, visual search, and motor speed to performance on parts A and B of the Trail Making Test. J Clin Psychol 54 585-591. 

Zakzanis KK, Mraz R, Graham SJ. 2005. An fmri study of the trail making test. Neuropsychologia 43 1878-1886. 

Number-connection test (part A of trail-making test, fourfold variations)... 

The trail-making test (R.M. Reitan, 1955) originated from the army individual test (1945) and the test results of s.G. Armitag (1946). It Comprises two parts the number-connection test (NCT) with numbers from 1-25 (part A) and the number and letter combination test (NLCT) with numbers from 1-13 and the letters A-L (part B). (32, 33) (s. fig. 10.2)... 

Reitan, R.M. The relation of the trail making test to organic brain damage. J. Consult. Psychol. 1955 19 393-394... 

Reitan, R.M. Validity of the trail making test as an indicator of organic brain damage. Percept. Motor. Skills 1958 8 271-276... 

Study (MACS) Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test Trail Making Test Symbol Digit Modalities Test Grooved Pegboard Test CES Depression Scale... 

The studies conforming to the protocol worked out at the WHO/CEC meeting in Dusseldorf (WHO, 1984), are recommended to include in their test battery two tests of visuospatial and attentional skills (one a shapecopying task in normal and interference mode - the Bender Gestalt test, and a trail-making test) two tests of vigilance performance (one an automated reaction-time task, and the other a symbol-cancellation task) the Wiener reaction-time test and tests of immediate and delayed memory. 

Visual-motor and visual sequential ability was assessed by the Trail Making Test carried out in agreement with the Danish study group as proposed during the WHO consultation of monitoring of lead neurotoxicity in children (WHO, 1984). In the protocol, only the time score for part A was considered. 

Trail making test (B) Toulouse-Pieron T Toulouse-Pieron T2 Toulouse-Pieron Ej Toulouse-Pieron E2 Delayed reaction time... 

By contrast, after control for confounding variables, our results did not show any influence of lead exposure on visual motor performance, evaluated by Bender Gestalt Test, by the Trail Making Test, and on scholastic attainment. 

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