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10/36 Spatial Recall Test:
25-foot Timed Walk Test (25TWT):
9-Hole Peg Test (9-HPT): Tool used to measure finger dexterity in patients with various neurological diagnoses.
ADHD Rating Scale for DSM-IV:
Accuracy: The condition or quality of being true, correct or exact.
Activity Level:
Adolescent Self-Rating Life Events Checklist (ASLEC):
Adult Hyperactivity Interview (AHI): A modification of the Adult Personality Functioning Assessment, in which a scale of inattentive/restless behaviors was included.
Aerobic Capacity:
Affective Neuroscience Personality Scales (ANPS)-ANGER score:
Age: The length of time during which a being or thing has existed.
Age of Onset: The age at which an individual acquires, develops, or first experiences a condition or symptoms of a disease or disorder.
Age of Victim:
Alcohol: An intoxicant found in alcoholic drinks.
Alcohol Use Identification Test (AUDIT): A screening for unhealthy alcohol use, defined as risky or hazardous consumption or any alcohol use disorder.
Analgesic consumption:
Anhedonia Scores: Scores to assess the disorder associated with a reduced capacity for pleasure
Ankle-brachial index:
Apathy: A lack of interest, enthusiasm, or concern.
Asleep Heart Rate:
Attachment Style Questionnaire (ASQ):
Attention:
Auditory Definition Naming:
Autism Behavior Checklist (ABC): A scale utilizes an observer’s rating of the child’s behavior to quantify behaviors typically associated with Autism.
Autism Diagnostic Interview-Revised (ADI-R): A standardized interview used to diagnose autism and distinguish it from other developmental disorders.
Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS): An instrument for diagnosing and assessing autism.
Autism Spectrum Quotient (AQ/ASQ): A self-administered questionnaire used to measure autistic traits in adults (age 16+).
Autobiographical Memory Test (AMT):
Awareness of Social Inference Test (TASIT): An assessment of social cognition for the purposes of diagnosing difficulties using social cues.
Balloon Analogue Risk Task (BART): A sequential decision making paradigm that assesses risk-taking behavior.
Barratt Impulsiveness Scale (BIS): Barratt Impulsiveness Scale (BIS)
Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI)/Beck Anxiety Inventory-Trait (BAIT): This scale is a self-report measure of anxiety.
Beck Depression Inventory (BDI/BDI-1A/BDI-II): A 21-item, self-report rating inventory that measures characteristic attitudes and symptoms of depression.
Behavioral Data: Information produced as a result of actions, typically behavior using a range of devices.
Bern Psychopathology Scale (BPS):
Binge Eating Scale (BES): Binge Eating Scale (BES)
Bladder Fluid Volume: The volume of urine in the bladder.
Blinks:
Block Design Test:
Blood Pressure: The pressure of the blood against the inner walls of the blood vessels.
Body Chemistry: All the processes that occur within the human body from cell production to your heartbeat.
Body Mass Index (BMI): Body Mass Index - an index for assessing overweight and underweight.
Boston Naming Test (BNT): A neuropsychological assessment tool to measure confrontational word retrieval in individuals with aphasia or other language disturbance caused by stroke, Alzheimer's disease, or other dementing disorder
Brief Pain Inventory (BPI):
CAG Repeats:
California Child Q-Sort: A modified version of the California Child Q-set (CCQ) for the assessment of children's social and emotional adjustment that are primarily concerned with behavior problems and dimensions
California Verbal Learning Test (CVLT):
Caloric Intake:
Cambridge Cognitive Examination (CAMCOG) Memory Subscale:
Cambridge Face Memory Test (CFMT): A test designed to assess whether or not people have face recognition difficulties.
Cambridge Gambling Task (CGT) Deliberation Time:
Cardiovascular Fitness (Aerobic Capacity): The maximum amount of oxygen your body can use at one time during an intense exercise.
Carrier/Mutation-Specific Genetic Testing: Tests used to identify individuals who have a gene mutation for a disorder inherited in an autosomal recessive or X-linked recessive manner.
Category Fluency: A cognitive function that allows an individual to list items belonging to a certain category, like fruits or animals, within a set time limit.
Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D):
Center of Pressure (COP):
Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) Phospho-Tau Levels:
Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) Tau Levels: Levels that are thought to reflect the intensity of the neuronal damage in neurodegeneration, including Alzheimer’s disease
Cerebrospinal fluid amyloid beta (CSF Abeta) Levels:
Cheek and Buss Shyness Scale (CBSS):
Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL):
Childhood Enuresis:
Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ): A brief survey of six early traumatic experiences (death, divorce, violence, sexual abuse, illness or other), and asseses individual's understanding of their childhood trauma.
Chinese Social Support Rating Scale (SSRS):
Cholesterol Level:
Chromosomes:
Clinical Anxiety Scale (CAS):
Clinical Dementia Rating Assessment (CDR): Instrument widely used to detect and stage dementia due to Alzheimer disease.
Clinical Dementia Rating Scale Sum of Boxes (CDR-SOB):
Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals (CELF-3): Assesses aspects of language necessary for preschool children to meet the language demands of the classroom.
Clinical Global Impressions Improvement Scale:
Clinical Outcome or Transition to a Disease/Disorder/Condition:
Clinician Administered PTSD Scale (CAPS): A 30-item structured interview that corresponds to the DSM-5 criteria for PTSD.
Clock Drawing Test (CDT):
Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ):
Cognitive Function: A broad term that refers to mental processes involved in the acquisition of knowledge, manipulation of information, and reasoning.
Cognitive Style Questionnaire:
Combat Experience:
Communications Disorders Index (CDI):
Composite International Diagnostic Interview Substance Abuse Module:
Consortium to Establish a Registry of Alzheimer’s Disease (CERAD):
Cooperative Ataxia Rating Scale (ICARS):
Cross-Cultural Smell Identification (CCSI): Based upon items from the University of Pennsylvania Smell Identification Test (UPSIT) by selecting UPSIT items that are familiar to most persons from North American, European, South American, and Asian cultures.
Delay Discounting: The decline in the present value of a reward with delay to its receipt.
Delis–Kaplan Executive Function System (D-KEFS):
Deployment Experience:
Deployment Social Support:
Differential Negativity: the negative difference wave (ERP waveform) associated with task switching; late switch-related negativity
Differential Positivity: the positive difference wave (ERP waveform) associated with task switching
Digit Span:
Digit Span Backward Test:
Digit Symbol Substitution Test (DSST):
Digit Symbol Test:
Disease Symptom Assessment: A self-report from patients at specific stages of specific disease type.
Disinhibition:
Dissociation Experiences Scale (DES): A questionnaire consisting of twenty‐eight questions about experiences that you may have in your daily life.
Dissociative Experience Scale (DES): Measures a wide variety of types of dissociation, including both problematic dissociative experiences, and normal dissociative experiences (e.g., day-dreaming).
Dopamine Metabolism:
Drive:
Duration of Disease/Disorder/Condition: Indicates the length of time the subject has been affected.
Duration of Epilepsy:
Duration of Medication Intake/Adherence: Length of time subject has been prescribed medication
Duration of Substance Intake:
Duration of Symptoms:
Duration of Training:
Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire (EDE-Q): Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire (EDE-Q)
Education: Number of years of formal school.
Ekman 60:
Ekman Caricatures:
Ekman’s Facial Emotion Recognition Test (EFER):
Electrocardiogram (ECG): The graphic record produced by an electrocardiograph.
Electrodermal Activity (EDA) (galvanic skin response/electrodermal response/psychogalvanic reflex/skin conductance): Refers to the variation of the electrical properties of the skin in response to sweat secretion.
Electroencephalogram (EEG): The graphic record produced by an electroencephalograph.
Electromyography (EMG): A technique for recording the electrical activity of muscles.
Electrooculography (EOG): The study and interpretation of electroencephalograms made by moving the eyes a constant distance between two fixed points.
Emotional Function: A broad construct consisting of multiple domains that describes one's expression, perception, and conceptualization of emotions.
Emotional Modulation: Changing the input-output relation between one of the (cognitive level) emotion components and subsequent (cognitive) component(s) in the process.
Emotional Recognition Accuracy: Recognition of emotional facial expressions.
Empathy Quotient (EQ): A questionnaire designed to measure empathy in adults.
Entorhinal Cortex Thickness: Hemispherically rightward-asymmetric with no gender differences.
Error rate: The frequency of errors occurred, defined as “the ratio of total number of data units in error to the total number of data units transmitted."
Executive Function: A set of mental skills that include working memory, flexible thinking, and self-control.
executive performance: The cognitive abilities that enable individuals to effectively manage their attention and engage in goal-directed behaviors
Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS): Used it to monitor changes in the level of someone's disability over time.
Exploratory eye movement (EEM):
Eysenck Junior Impulsiveness Scale (EIS):
Eysenck Personality Questionnare-Revised, Short Scale for Chinese (EPQ-RSC):
Fagerström Test for Nicotine Dependence (FTND):
Fahn-Tolosa-Marin Tremor Rating Scale:
Fainting Frequency:
Familiarity: Close acquaintance with or knowledge of something
Family History of Affective/Mood Disorder:
Fatigue:
Faux Pas Recognition Test (FPR):
Fractional Anisotropy:
Frailty: The condition of being weak and delicate.
Free Association Values: The uncensored expression of the ideas, impressions, etc., passing through the mind of the analysand.
Free and Cued Selective Reminding Test (FCSRT) Delayed Total Recall: Assesses immediate and delayed free-recall and cued-facilitated immediate and delayed recall.
Free and Cued Selective Reminding Test (FCSRT) Free Delayed Recall:
Free and Cued Selective Reminding Test (FCSRT) Free Recall:
Free and Cued Selective Reminding Test (FCSRT) Sensitivity to Cueing:
Free and Cued Selective Reminding Test (FCSRT) Total Recall: Used to identify prevalent dementia, predict future dementia, identify those patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) destined to develop Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and distinguish AD from non-AD dementias.
Frequency: The rate at which something occurs or is repeated over a particular period of time or in a given sample.
Frontal Assessment Battery (FAB)- All Subscales: A brief tool that can be used at the bedside or in a clinic setting to assist in discriminating between dementias with a frontal dysexecutive phenotype and Dementia of Alzheimer's Type.
Frontal System Behavioural Scale (FrSBe), Apathy Subscore:
Frontal System Behavioural Scale (FrSBe), Disinhibition Subscore:
Frontal Systems Behavior Scale (FrSBe) - Apathy Subscale:
Frontal Systems Behavior Scale (FrSBe) - Disinhibition Subscale:
Frontal Systems Behavioral Scale (FrSBe): Provides a brief, reliable, and valid measure of three frontal systems behavioral syndromes: apathy, disinhibition, and executive dysfunction.
Full Scale Intelligence Quotient (FSIQ): A numeric value given to overall intelligence on the standardized Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC).
Functional Disability Inventory (FDI):
Fundamental Power Quotient (FPQ): Fundamental power divided by its standard error.
Gaze Duration: The sum of all fixations on a word prior to moving to another word.
Gender:
Genotype: The genetic makeup of an organism or group of organisms with reference to a single trait, set of traits, or an entire complex of traits.
Gestational Age: Term used during pregnancy to describe how far along the pregnancy is.
Gestational Weight: Levels of weight gain in pregnancy.
Ghrelin Levels: Measurement of a peptide hormone, produced mostly in the stomach, that increases appetite by stimulating the pituitary gland to secrete growth hormone.
Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS): A scoring system used to describe the level of consciousness in a person following a traumatic brain injury.
Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF) scale: A numeric scale used by mental health clinicians and physicians to rate subjectively the social, occupational, and psychological functioning of an individual, i.e., how well one is meeting various problems in living.
Gray Matter Volume:
Grip Force: The force applied by the hand to pull on or suspend from objects and is a specific part of hand strength.
Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale (HARS): A 14-item clinician-rated measure of the severity of perceived anxiety symptoms.
Hamilton Depression Rating (HAMD): A multiple-item questionnaire used to provide an indication of depression, and as a guide to evaluate recovery.
Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (HRSD): Assessment used to quantify the severity of symptoms of depression.
Handedness Inventory: A measurement scale used to assess the dominance of a person's right or left hand in everyday activities, sometimes referred to as laterality.
Hare Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R): A standard scale used to measure potential psychopathy in adults.
Hayling Sentence Completetion Test (HSCT):
Hayling Sentence Completetion Test (HSCT), Time:
Hayling Sentence Completetion Test (HSCT), part B:
Hayling Test:
Hearing Loss:
Heart Rate: The number of heartbeats per minute.
Heart Rate Variability (HRV):
Heartbeat evoked potentials (HEPs):
Heroin Craving:
Hoehn and Yahr Stage (H-Y):
Hormone Levels: The measurement of a particular hormone in your blood, urine, or saliva.
Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS): Measures anxiety and depression in a general medical population of patients.
Hyperglycemia Exposure: Too much sugar (glucose) in the blood.
Hypoglycemia Exposure: Too little sugar (glucose) in the blood.
Impulsiveness Venturesomeness Empathy Inventory (IVE):
Insulin Resistance:
Intelligence Quotient (IQ): A number representing a person's reasoning ability (measured using problem-solving tests) as compared to the statistical norm or average for their age, taken as 100.
Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI):
Inventory of Callous-Unemotional Traits:
Iowa Gambling Task (IGT): A measure of decision-making abilities in which participants attempt to win as much play money as possible by selecting cards from four decks.
Language Proficency: The ability to use a language in real world situations during spontaneous interactions or in a non-rehearsed context in a way that is appropriate and acceptable for native speakers of the language.
Leibowitz Social Anxiety Scale (LSAS):
Length: The measurement or extent of something from end to end.
Lesion Load: The number or volume of lesions
Letter Fluency: Ability to read with automaticity, which is recognizing words automatically, to promote comprehension of words and the passage.
Level of Education: The highest level of formal education that an individual has received or the highest degree they have earned.
Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale (LSAS): A questionnaire to assess the range of social interaction and performance situations feared by a patient in order to assist in the diagnosis of social anxiety disorder.
Lifetime Number of Migraine Attacks:
Loudness:
Malondialdehyde level: Level of the substance that is a biomarker of oxidative stress in many health problems such as cancer, psychiatry, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma, or cardiovascular diseases.
Maternal Sensitivity: A mother's ability to perceive and infer the meaning behind her infant's behavioural signals, and to respond to them promptly and appropriately.
Mattis Dementia Rating Scale (MDRS):
Mayo Clinic Fluctuation Scale:
Medial Temporal Atrophy:
Medication (Dosage): The size or frequency of a dose of a medicine or drug.
Medication (Type): The classification of the substance.
Memory: The mental capacity or faculty of retaining and reviving facts, events, impressions, etc., or of recalling or recognizing previous experiences.
Memory Load: Related to activation within the working memory network.
Migraine Disability Assessment (MIDAS):
Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE): A questionnaire that is used extensively in clinical and research settings to measure cognitive impairment.
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory - Version 2 (MMPI-2) - Depression Scale:
Mississippi Scale for PTSD (MISS):
Montreal Affective Voices (MAV):
Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA): A rapid screening instrument for mild cognitive dysfunction.
Moral Foundations Questionnaire (MFQ):
Motor Function: Refers to the control and coordination of muscle movements, vital for daily activities and complex behaviors.
Motor Imagery Ability Score:
Multidimensional Fatigue Inventory (MFI): A 20-item self-report instrument designed to measure fatigue.
Multiple Ability Self Report Questionnaire (MASQ):
NEO Personality Inventory-3 (NEOPI-3):
NEO-Five Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI):
National Adult Reading Test (NART): A test used to estimate premorbid ability.
National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID) score:
Neurological Soft Signs (NSS):
Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI): Instrument for capturing behavioral changes in Alzheimer disease and other neurodegenerative disorders.
Neuroticism: The state of having traits or symptoms characteristic of neurosis.
Nightmare Distress Questionnaire:
None:
Number Solved: Counting the times the problem was solved.
Number of Symptoms:
Obsessive–Compulsive Drinking Scale (OCDS): A self‐rated instrument for the quantification of thoughts about alcohol and drinking behavior.
Olfaction Function:
Olfactory Bulb and Tract (OBT) Volume:
Oswestry Disability Index (ODI): Patient-completed questionnaire which gives a subjective percentage score of level of function (disability) in activities of daily living in those rehabilitating from low back pain.
PROMIS Pediatric Fatigue-Short Form:
PTSD Checklist for DSM-5 (PCL-5):
Paced Auditory Serial Addition Test (PASAT): A measure of cognitive function that assesses auditory information processing speed and flexibility, as well as calculation ability.
Pain Catastrophizing Scale (PCS): Questionnaire to help quantify an individual's pain experience, asking about how they feel and what they think about when they are in pain
Pain Rating: Self rating discomfort.
Panic Disorder Severity Scale (PDSS):
Partiality Score:
Past History of Mood/Affective Disorder:
Penile Tumescence: The hardening and expansion of the penis into an erection.
Personal Social Performance Scale:
Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI):
Phonemic Fluency:
Phonological Verbal Fluency:
Physical Activity:
Picture Naming:
Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index:
Plasma Level: Refers to the concentration of an agent in the plasma which is derived from full blood.
Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS): A medical scale used for measuring symptom severity of patients with schizophrenia.
Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) - All Subscales: A medical scale used for measuring symptom severity of patients with schizophrenia.
Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) - Negative Symptom Subscale: The assessment of negative symptoms through rating scales.
Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) - Positive Symptom Subscale: The assessment of positive symptoms through rating scales.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Checklist - Civilian (PCL-C): A standardized self-report rating scale for PTSD comprising 17 items that correspond to the key symptoms of PTSD.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Checklist-Military Version (PCL): A self-report measure that assesses the 20 DSM-5 symptoms of PTSD.
Posttraumatic Diagnostic Scale (PDS):
Pregnancy Anxiety/Prenatal Stress:
Premonitory Urge for Tics Scale (PUTS):
Protein Level:
Psychosocial Deprivation (PSD):
Pulse Pressure:
Questionnaire of Cognitive and Affective Empathy (QCAE):
Quick Inventory of Depressive Symptomatology (QIDS): A self-assessment which rates depression symptoms.
ROI Activity: Activity in a defined region of the brain.
Raven's Advanced Progressive Matrices (RAPM):
Reaction Time: The measurement of time between a stimulus and a response.
Reactive-Proactive Aggression Scale:
Reading the Mind in the Eyes (RME):
Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (RMIE): A test to measure theory of mind (ToM) or the ability to recognize the thoughts and feelings of others.
Recovery Time: Length of time to recovery after an illness.
Recreational Drugs: A drug taken for enjoyment, typically illegally, rather than for strictly medicinal purposes.
Recruitment Location:
Refractory Index:
Relapse Rate:
Respiratory Data: Various measurements related to respiration.
Response Consistency: An estimate of the correlation between the responses associated with two identical blocks of trials.
Response Data: Various measurements related to response.
Response Style Questionnaire (RSQ):
Retrieval Fluency: Judgment of the ease with which information comes to mind when trying to find it in memory.
Reward:
Rey Auditory-Verbal Learning (RAVL):
Rey Auditory-Verbal Learning (RAVL) - Delayed Recall:
Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure Test (CFT):
Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure Test (ROCF) - Delayed Recall: Captures information about five domains of neuropsychological functioning: visuospatial recall memory, visuospatial recognition memory, response bias, processing speed, and visuospatial constructional ability.
Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure Test (ROCF) - Immediate Recall: a neuropsychological assessment in which examinees are asked to reproduce a complicated line drawing, first by copying it freehand (recognition), and then drawing from memory (recall).
Ritvo Autism Asperger Diagnostic Scale-Revised (RAADS-R): An instrument to assist the diagnosis of adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders.
Roland-Morris Disability Questionnaire (RDQ): Assess self-rated physical disability caused by low back pain.
SPECT Factor Score: Score extracted from SPECT data sets.
Saccadic/Prosaccadic:
Scale for the Assessment and Rating of Ataxia (SARA):
Scale for the Assessment of Negative Symptoms (SANS):
Scale for the Assessment of Positive Symptoms (SAPS): A rating scale to measure positive symptoms in schizophrenia.
Screening Scale for Pedophilic Interests (SSPI):
Secondary Sexual Characteristics of Puberty:
Selective Reminding Test (SRT):
Self Report Psychopathy Scales (SRP-III):
Semi-Structured Assessment For The Genetics Of Alcoholism II (SSAGA-II-Adult):
Sensitivity d': Signal detection theory index
Sensitivity to Punishment and Sensitivity to Reward Questionnaire (SPSRQ): A self-reported instrument that includes 48 yes/no questions divided into two subscales: Sensitivity to Reward (SR) and Sensitivity to Punishment (SP).
Sensory Function: The portion of the nervous system responsible for processing input from the environment.
Sentence Comprehension:
Severity of Disease/Disorder/Condition: Indicates the intensity and progression of the disease/disorder/condition.
Sexual Arousal: The physiological and psychological responses in preparation for sexual intercourse or when exposed to sexual stimuli.
short-Problem Behaviors Assessment for Huntington's Disease (PBA-s): A 40-item semistructured interview designed to elicit information about behavioral symptoms relevant to HD.
Size of Corpus Callosum: Measurement of the corpus callosum.
Skin conductance response:
Sleep Disturbances Score:
Slow-Phase Velocity (SPV) of Caloric Nystagmus:
Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory (SPAI):
Social Status:
Socio-Emotional Questionnaire (SEQ):
South Oaks Gambling Survey (SOGS): A 20-item questionnaire based on DSM-III criteria for pathological gambling.
Speeded Dexterity:
State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI): Test to measure of trait and state anxiety.
State-Trait Personality Inventory (STPI): A self-administered questionnaire designed to measure transitory and dispositional anger, anxiety, curiosity, and depression in adults.
Stroop Color-word Task (SCWT):
Stroop Interference Task (Stroop):
Stuttering Rate: The rate of interruptions to speech such as hesitating, repeating sounds and words, or prolonging sounds.
Sugar Content: Sugar Content
Switch Positivity (P3): - an effect of task switching which results in enhancement in the amplitude of the P3b or P3 component of the ERPs ; amplitude of the P3 which is sensitive to task switching
Syllable Rate: Related to making sounds with different parts of your mouth.
Symbol Digit Modalities Test (SDMT): A test to assess psychomotor speed, which measures processing speed as well as motor speed.
Symptom Severity: Measurement of the severity of symptoms.
Task Difficulty: Measurement of how hard a task is to complete.
Task Performance: Measurement of how a subject completes a task.
Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI): A self-report that evaluates specific dimensions of personality
Temperament/Character: Reflects the biological and the inherited features, and the character reflects the social and cultural contribution of the person.
Temperature: The degree of internal heat of a person's body.
Ten Point Clock Test:
Tendency to Forgive Scale (TTF):
Test of Receptive Grammar:
Theory of Mind: Refers to the understanding that other individuals have mental states, such as knowledge, intentions, and beliefs.
Thirst Ratings: Measurement of the feeling of needing or wanting to drink something.
Time:
Time Since Trauma (TST): Time since the date of trauma.
Timed-Walk Test (TWT):
Tinnitus Awareness:
Tinnitus Handicap Inventory (THI):
Tinnitus Questionnaire (TQ):
Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20)-Alexithymia Dimension:
Torrance Test of Creative Thinking (TTCT):
Trail Making Test (TMT) - Part A: A neuropsychological test that involves visual scanning and working memory.
Trail Making Test (TMT) - Part A, Response Time:
Trail Making Test (TMT) - Part B:
Trail-Making Test (TMT):
Unified Dystonia Rating Scale (UDRS):
Unified Huntington's Disease Rating Scale (UHDRS)- All Subscales: An assessment of the clinical features and course of Huntington's Disease.
Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS 3) - Postural Instability Gait Disorder (PIGD) subscale:
Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS-III): Tools to measure the severity and progression of Parkinson disease
University of Sao Paulo Sensory Phenomena Scale (USP-SPS):
Urine Toxicology: Test to determine drug use.
Verbal Concept Formation Task:
Verbal Descriptor Visual Analog Scale (VD-VAS):
Verbal Fluency: A cognitive function that facilitates information retrieval from memory.
Visceral Adipose Tissue Area (VAT): Area of belly fat found deep within your abdominal cavity.
Vision Assessment: An organized procedure for gathering information about the health and function of the vision system.
Visual Analog Scale (VAS): A unidimensional measure of pain intensity, used to record patients' pain progression, or compare pain severity between patients with similar conditions.
Visual Analog Scale for Loudness (VAS-I): Scale that gauges a subjective reaction based on a line with defined end points, inaudible and extremely loud.
Waist Circumference: Measurement around the body; halfway between the lower ribs and the iliac crest,
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS/WAIS-R/WAIS-III/WAIS-IV): An IQ test designed to measure intelligence and cognitive ability in adults and older adolescents.
Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R), Performance Subtest (PIQ):
Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R), Verbal Subtest (VIQ): An overall measure of verbal concept formation (the child's ability to verbally reason) and is influenced by semantic knowledge.
Wechsler Memory Scale (WMS/WMS-IV/WMS-R) - Logical Memory Subtest: A standardized assessment of narrative episodic memory
Wechsler Memory Scale (WMS/WMS-IV/WMS-R) - Visual Reproduction Subtest: Test used to assess mild cognitive impairment.
Weight: A body's relative mass or the quantity of matter contained by it, giving rise to a downward force; the heaviness of a person or thing.
Wender Utah Rating Scale (WURS): Test used to assess adults for Attention Deficit
White Bear Suppression Inventory (WBSI):
White Matter Grade: A risk factor for dementia, stroke and disability
White Matter Hyperintensity:
White Matter Lesion Load: Measure of White matter lesion found by a magnetic resonance (MR) imaging scan.
Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST): A neuropsychological test of set-shifting, which is the capability to show flexibility when exposed to changes in reinforcement.[
Word List Delayed Recall/Semantic Fluency/Freelisting: Tests of verbal memory.
Word List Generation (WLG): A phonemic verbal fluency test that evaluates the spontaneous production of words and mental flexibility, when given a letter from the alphabet and within a limited amount of time.
Working Memory Test Battery for Children (WMTB-C): A behavioral rating scale developed for teachers to facilitate easy identification of children with working memory deficits.
Yale Global Tic Severity Scale (YGTSS):
Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS):
Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale (SDS): An instrument used for measuring the presence and severity of depressive symptoms in individuals.
