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The Brief Repeatable Battery of Neuropsychological Tests: normative values allow application in multiple sclerosis clinical practice

Department of Neurology, Academisch Ziekenhuis Vrije Universiteit 1007 MB Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Department of Neurology, Ziekenhuis Eemland 3800 BM Amersfoort, The Netherlands

R HC Lazeron

Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Academisch Ziekenhuis Vrije Universiteit 1007 MB Amsterdam, The Netherlands

I EW Reuling

Department of Medical Psychology, Academisch Ziekenhuis Vrije Universiteit 1007 MB Amsterdam, The Netherlands

H J Adèr

Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Academisch Ziekenhuis Vrije Universiteit 1007 MB Amsterdam, The Netherlands

L EMA Pfennings

Department of Medical Psychology, Academisch Ziekenhuis Vrije Universiteit 1007 MB Amsterdam, The Netherlands

J Lindeboom

Department of Medical Psychology, Academisch Ziekenhuis Vrije Universiteit 1007 MB Amsterdam, The Netherlands

L MJ de Sonneville

Department of Neurology, Academisch Ziekenhuis Vrije Universiteit 1007 MB Amsterdam, The Netherlands

N F Kalkers

Department of Neurology, Academisch Ziekenhuis Vrije Universiteit 1007 MB Amsterdam, The Netherlands

C H Polman

Department of Neurology, Academisch Ziekenhuis Vrije Universiteit 1007 MB Amsterdam, The Netherlands

The Brief Repeatable Battery of Neuropsychological Tests (BRB-N) is a sensitive measure of cognitive impairment in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients. It consists of the Selective Reminding Test, the 10/36 Spatial Recall Test, the Symbol Digit Modalities Test, the Paced Auditory Serial Addition Test and the Word List Generation Test. We administered one of two parallel versions of the test battery to 140 healthy subjects to produce normative values for both versions. As expected, test scores were influenced by certain variables like age, gender and education. Although constructed as two equivalent versions, for some tests the two versions showed significant differences in test scores, which could not be explained by differences in these variables.

Key Words: neuropsychological testing • Brief Repeatable Battery • normative values • multiple sclerosis

Multiple Sclerosis, Vol. 7, No. 4, 263-267 (2001)
DOI: 10.1177/135245850100700409


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