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Table 1 Neuropsychological testing in neuropsychiatric lupus syndrome (NPSLE) - The ACR 1-hour battery proposal

From: Neuropsychiatric lupus: a mosaic of clinical presentations

Test

Evaluates

Revised Wechsler Adult Intelligence scale

Psychomotor speed, concentration, and graphomotor abilities

Digit Symbol Substitution Test

Psychomotor speed, concentration, and graphomotor abilities

The Trail Making Test Part B

Psychomotor speed, attention, and cognitive sequencing

The Stroop Color and Word Test

Complex attention and shifting of sets by naming color print for words written in different colors

The learning trial and short delay ‘free’ scores from the California Verbal Learning Test

Learning and recall of verbal material

The immediate and 30-minute delayed-recall measure of the Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure Test

Visual learning and memory

The Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale

Auditory working memory

The Controlled Oral Word Association Test (Letter Fluency) and the Animal Naming Test (Category Fluency)

Letter and category verbal fluency

The Finger Tapping Test

Simple fine motor speed

  1. Proposed 1 hour battery of neuropsychological testing in NPSLE [76].