Never done it sorry. Wish I could be more help....

I did that when I was in school. All I remember is that there were a lot of verbal questions and timed tests assembling patterned blocks into a given diagram. It wasn't painful but there was some performance anxiety.

Good luck with it!

Let us know what its all about!

What does he hope to achieve from all this testing? How will it change your treatment and recovery?

If I knew what it was I could be another expert on the subject.

It places my level of functioning.... and tests for ADD. It tests memory, concentration, etc.... then I get a "percentage of normal" score. I just don't know how they go about testing all that..... If it comes up positive for ADD then she may add Straterra (sp?) and she said it "gives us things to work on" whatever that means.

I am going to get the same testing done in about a month and what is hard is that I am having flashbacks and am really struggling to even write this. I am in counseling and part of a local support group and hanging on for my life good luck

I actually just had this done a few weeks ago....and I go in tomorrow for the results.

It was an all day process, and by the time I was done I was mentally exhausted.
Like Tommy said, part of the test was assembling blocks into diagrams...also she would say a list of numbers and letters and I had to put them in alphabetical and numerical order...she'd read a short story and when she was done I'd tell her as many details from the story that I could remember...vocab words, a math section...it's pretty detailed.

My new doctor ordered this done when I told her about my severe memory issues and that I thought I was ADD. I get how this tests for ADD, but I don't understand the memory part of it.

Good luck, and let us know how the tests go!

They gave me an IQ test so be ready to answer how many continents there are on the planet and in what direction the sun rises and sets.

They gave me the MMPI (I think, though maybe not at this session) and a general Beck Inventory Depression question test.

They do verbal reasoning and memory stuff - like looking at pictures and seeing if you can remember what happened in this scene or that.

Also facial recognition stuff - showing pictures of faces and then you are to remember them.

I don't really remember it all very well. I was extremely depressed and living in Akron (with no sun for a month) and it was in the middle of winter and my brain was not working well. They even wrote that I didn't seem to want to try hard enough due to being so depressed and that they think my scores would have been higher on some things (being that I have a grad degree) if I had not been as depressed.

But in the end, they were looking for signs of mild traumatic brain injury due to a car accident and they ascertained my cognitive problems were due to my bipolar disorder.

I think BP is a form of traumatic brain injury in some weird way by now.