- Instrumented Trail Making Test – Detects early executive dysfunction in dementia/MCI.
- Math Test – Sensitive to working memory decline in Alzheimer’s and MCI.
- Number Sequence – Screens short-term memory loss (Alzheimer’s, MCI).
- Spell Backwards – Picks up working memory/executive deficits (dementia, FTD).
- Stroop Test – Used for frontal/executive dysfunction (FTD, vascular dementia).
- Paragraph Test – Detects verbal memory and comprehension loss (Alzheimer’s, MCI).
- Clock Drawing – Classic Alzheimer’s/dementia screening tool for visuospatial deficits.
- Marking the Stars – Attention test; sensitive in early Alzheimer’s or Lewy Body Dementia.
- Visual Association Test – Identifies associative memory impairments (Alzheimer’s, MCI).
- Fragmented Picture Test – Picks up perceptual recognition problems (Alzheimer’s, posterior cortical atrophy).
- Recognition Test – Screens semantic memory loss (Alzheimer’s, semantic dementia).
- Recall & Recognition Test – Detects delayed memory deficits (Alzheimer’s, MCI).
- Spiral Drawing – Used in both dementia (memory recall) and Parkinson’s (motor precision).
🏃♂️ Motor / Movement Disorders
Commonly linked: Parkinson’s disease, Essential Tremor, Huntington’s disease, Ataxias
- Eye Tracking – Parkinson’s (slowed saccades), Huntington’s (abnormal eye movement).
- Filling the Board – Parkinson’s (bradyphrenia + slowed mental sequencing).
- Romberg Test – Ataxia (cerebellar disorders), peripheral neuropathy, vestibular disorders.