Other tests are offered, though not administered on a regular basis. Specific tests are used when certain diagnoses are suspected.
MMSE (Mini Mental Status Exam)
Commonly used in medicine to screen for cognitive impairment/dementia. Briefly tests various cognitive functions, including arithmetic, memory, and orientation.
GAMA (General Ability Measure for Adults)
The GAMA IQ score helps estimate an individual's general intellectual ability and provides information about the individual's performance as they complete tasks in the following categories: matching, sequences, analogies, and construction.
SPIN (Social Phobia Inventory)
P300
Measures capacity to process relevant and ignore irrelevant info, indicator for attention deficits of various forms. Electrical burst of the P300 brainwave in response to an "odd tone" brain stressor indicates:
Speed: Identifies "brain age" as opposed to biological age, impacts info processing and recall.
Voltage: Power or energy/metabolism/output/drive
Y-Bocs (Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale)
Test to rate the severity of obsessive-compulsive symptoms.
