Cognitive Assessment Based on CBS Health

Available stand-alone or included in BrainTrainUK Assessment

CBS Health is an online brain health assessment service based on research by Cambridge Brain Sciences. It accurately measures core elements of your cognitive function, including memory, attention, reasoning and verbal abilities. Your neurofeedback practitioner will use these measures to assess core areas of cognition that are key to your mental health and wellness, and establish a baseline.

The tasks are fun to do and suitable for all ages as long as they can understand what the task is. For age 6 upwards the results are normalised (compared to an average).

As you go through your neurofeedback sessions, you can re-take the tests to measure progress.

Benefits

Convenient – Web-based and flexible. Assessments can be completed on desktop, laptop and tablet devices, no pen and paper or special hardware required.
Engaging – Tasks take only 1.5 – 3 minutes to complete, and are highly engaging, enjoyable and unintimidating. Plus, interactive and repeatable task tutorials will ensure you get up to speed on the tasks.
Actionable – Allows you to quantify the core elements of cognition and track cognitive trends over time.

Backed up by science

Tasks used in 300+ peer- reviewed studies of cognition
Over 8 million tasks completed globally, and counting
Backed by over 25+ years of scientific research

Range of Tasks

There are 12 tasks in total. You may do all 12, just 4, or a tailored set for your circumstances:

#	Task Name	Outcome Measure	Example Activities
1	Monkey Ladder	Visuospatial Working Memory	Planning your day and the errands you   need to run, then carrying out those   errands in the correct order by memory.
2	Spatial Span	Spatial Short-Term Memory	Recalling and then delivering a set of directions to someone for a route you just took.
3	Token Search	Working Memory	Systematically searching for your car keys that have been left somewhere by your partner.
4	Paired Associates	Episodic Memory	When storing household items after grocery shopping, later remembering which items you put where.
5	Rotations	Mental Rotation	Navigating using a map on your phone that keeps rotating every time you turn, or finding the route to a room inside a building even   though you came in through a different door.
6	Polygons	Visuospatial Processing	Performing actions that require precise assessment and reasoning about objects, such as drawing, constructing models, aligning decorations on a wall, or designing a web page.
7	Odd One Out	Deductive Reasoning	Determine that something is true because of a set of facts. For instance, when doing your taxes, you may determine that you qualify for a tax rebate based on certain rules set out by your country.
8	Spatial Planning	Planning	Packing items into your car’s boot so that they all fit, or assembling a piece of furniture.
9	Feature Match	Attention	Identifying similarities and differences when comparing two things, such as deciding which of many great photos of your friends to share from an evening out.
10	Double Trouble	Response Inhibition	Blocking out background conversations when you’re trying to focus on something, or ignoring buzz words when viewing a television ad (“Fresh! Simple! Revolutionary!”), while focusing your attention on more important factors, like price or quality of the item being sold.
11	Grammatical Reasoning	Verbal Reasoning	Understanding everyday speech that may contain negative statements – for instance, “I didn’t know that he wasn’t going to show up”.
12	Digit Span	Verbal Short-Term Memory	Remembering a telephone number as you’re entering it into your phone.

There are sets of tasks that are particularly relevant to particular symptoms or diagnoses:

Autism
Early Alzheimer’s
Asperger Syndrome
Non-Alzheimer’s Dementia
Epilepsy
Parkinson’s
Age-Related Decline
ADHD
PTSD
Schizophrenia
Dyslexia
Stroke
Concussion
Huntington’s Disease
Frontal Lobe
Temporal Lobe
Depression

Note that a Cognitive Assessment is not going to provide any form of diagnosis.

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