Description
The NAB Provides an Efficient, Comprehensive Assessment of Attention, Language, Memory, Spatial Processing, and Executive Functions in Less Than 4 Hours…
The NAB is a comprehensive, integrated, modular battery of 33 new neuropsychological tests developed to assess a wide array of neuropsychological skills and functions in adults (ages 18-97 years) who have known or suspected disorders of the central nervous system. The individual tests are grouped into six modules: Attention, Language, Memory, Spatial, Executive Functions, and Screening (which allows the clinician to determine which of the other five domain-specific modules are appropriate to administer to an individual patient).
The NAB has excellent psychometric properties, includes extensive normative and validation
data, provides clinical information that meets the needs of a broad range of modern referral
sources, and offers two equivalent forms that reduce practice effects and facilitate
revaluation. The examiner can administer the entire NAB for a comprehensive evaluation of
neuropsychological functioning in less than 4 hours.
Ten Innovative Features of the NAB
- Feature Screening for both impaired and normal performance (“dual-screening capability”)
- Comprehensive coverage of functional domains
- Combined strengths of flexible and fixed battery approaches to assessment
- Avoidance of floor and ceiling effects
- Reduced administration time
- Entire battery normed on a single standardization group (“coordinated norming”)
- Demographically corrected norms based on age, education level, and sex
- Provision of an equivalent/parallel form
- Increased user-friendliness for both examiner and examinee
- Focus on ecological validity
