Domain
Common measures—but not exhaustive list
Skill
All (most) ages
Adult version
Pediatric version
Intellectual functioning
Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence-Second Edition (WASI-II)
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Fourth Edition (WAIS-IV)
Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Fourth Edition (WISC-IV)
Language
Verbal fluency
Delis–Kaplan Executive Function System (DKEFS)—Verbal Fluency; Controlled Oral Word Association Test (COWA or COWAT); FAS
NEPSY-Second Edition (NEPSY-II): Word Generation
Naming
Boston Naming Test (BNT); Expressive One-Word Picture Vocabulary Test-Fourth Edition (EOWPVT-4)
Receptive vocabulary
Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-Fourth Edition (PPVT-IV); Receptive One-Word Picture Vocabulary Test-Fourth Edition (ROWPVT-4)
Comprehension
Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals-Fourth Edition (CELF-IV): Concepts and Following Directions; Token Test
NEPSY-II: Comprehension of Instructions subtest
Phonological skills
Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing-Second Edition (CTOPP-2) (to age 24)
Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing-Second Edition (CTOPP-2)
Memory
Visual
Rey–Osterrieth complex figure test—immediate, delayed, recognition trials
Wechsler Memory Scale-Fourth Edition (WMS-IV): Visual Reproduction, Design Memory; Brief Visual Spatial Memory Test—Revised (BVMT-R)
Children’s Memory Scale (CMS): Dot Locations, Faces; NEPSY-II:Memory for Designs
Verbal
Wide Range Assessment of Memory and Learning-Second Edition (WRAML-2):Story Memory; Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test (RAVLT)
WMS-IV: Logical Memory, Verbal Paired Associates; California Verbal Learning Test-Second Edition (CVLT-II); Hopkins Verbal Learning Test–Revised (HVLT-R)
CMS: Stories, Word Pairs; California Verbal Learning Test-Children’s Version (CVLT-C)
Attention and executive functioning
Attention
Test of Variables of Attention (TOVA); Conners’ Continuous Performance Tests-Second Edition (CPT-II);
Test of Everyday Attention (TEA)
Test of Everyday Attention for Children (TEA-Ch)
Working memory
Digit Span Backwards (Wechsler measures); Auditory Consonant Trigrams (ACT); WRAML-2 Finger Windows, Sentence Memory
Set-shifting
Trail Making (Trail Making Test (TMT)) Parts A and B; DKEFS: Trail Making); 20 Questions; Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST)
Inhibition
Stroop Color Word Test (Kaplan); DKEFS Color Word Interference
Planning
Tower of London-DX-Second Edition; DKEFS Tower Test; Rey–Osterrieth Complex Figure Test
Overall
Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function (BRIEF)
Visual-spatial skills/visual-motor integration
Beery-Buktenica Developmental Test of Visual-Motor Integration-Sixth Edition (VMI): Visual-Motor Integration, Visual Perception; Hooper Test of Visual Organization (VOT); Judgment of Line Orientation Test (JLO); Rey–Osterrieth Complex Figure Test—Copy Trial
Fine motor
Grooved Pegboard Test or Purdue Pegboard Test; Beery-Buktenica Developmental Test of Visual-Motor Integration-Sixth Edition (VMI): Motor Coordination subtest
Academic achievement
Woodcock Johnson III Tests of Achievement (WJ-III); Wechsler Individual Achievement Test–Third Edition (WIAT–III); The Wide Range Achievement Test 4 (WRAT4)
Social/Emotional-Personality-Adaptive (Rating scales)
Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales, Second Edition (VABS-II); Adaptive Behavior Assessment System-Second Edition (ABAS); The Scales of Independent Behavior-Revised (SIB-R)
Achenbach Adult Self-Report (ASR); Beck Depression Inventory-Second Edition (BDI-II); Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI); ADHD Rating Scale-IV
Achenbach Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL)/Youth Self-Report (YSR)/Teacher Report Form (TRF); Children’s Depression Inventory-Second Edition (CDI-2); Revised Children’s Manifest Anxiety Scale-Second Edition (RCMAS-2)
The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2); NEO Personality Inventory-Revised (NEO PI-R)
The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-Adolescent (MMPI-A)
General Cognitive Functioning/Intelligence Quotient (IQ)
Language
Memory and Learning
Attention
Executive-Regulatory Function
Visual/Spatial/Nonverbal processing
Motor
Academic Achievement
Adaptive Functioning
Social/Emotional
Personality
Neuropsychological Findings by Domain in Epilepsy
Overview
It is long recognized that persons with epilepsy have greater incidence of cognitive and psychiatric comorbidities (Gowers 1881). Consistent with the heterogeneity of seizure disorders, but even often within a single type of epilepsy, no single cognitive profile exists for epilepsy. Other general considerations are as follows:
Although there are some findings that focal epilepsy is associated with focal deficits, this is true for adults more than children likely due to the plasticity of children’s brains. Therefore, children do not follow adult profiles. Moreover, even though focal epilepsy may result in a deficit related to the location of the epilepsy, this is not the only deficit that the person is contending with. For example, a person with left temporal lob epilepsy may have verbal memory difficulties, but also has inattention and slow processing speed.Related posts:
New-Generation Antiepileptic Drugs
Other Pharmacological Therapies: Investigational Antiepileptic Drugs, Animal Models of Epilepsy, Hormonal Therapy, Immunotherapy
Old-Generation Antiepileptic Drugs
Magnetoencephalography and Magnetic Source Modeling
Epilepsy Secondary to Specific Mechanisms
Epilepsy Surgery Assessment and Testing
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