The Mindstreams® Moderate to Severe Impairment Tests do not require patient interaction with the computer; the test supervisor fills this role and results are raw scores only. The tests are abbreviated in length and complexity. Read below to see how the Mindstreams® Moderate to Severe Impairment tests will help you understand the challenges a patient has or may soon be facing.

• Orientation (to time and place)

• Brain Areas Involved: Mostly the temporal and frontal lobes.
• Affected Abilities: Orientation to person, place and time is essential for a person’s basic functioning in the environment.
• Problems with orientation can lead to: Disorientation to person, place, or time greatly impacts a person’s ability to live independently.
• MindStreams® Areas of Focus: Orientation to place.
• MindStreams® Test: Orientation to Time and Place Test.
  
  

• Memory

• Brain Areas Involved: Mostly the temporal and frontal lobes.
• Affected Abilities: Memory is essential for a person’s identification with himself, his family, and his surroundings. Memory functions include acquiring new information, storing it, and retrieving it.
• Problems with memory can lead to: Difficulty in learning new information, and difficulty retrieving information.
• MindStreams® Areas of Focus: Two non-verbal memory tests that measure very short-term (working memory) and intermediate-term (episodic memory) ability to memorize and recall pictures of familiar object.
• MindStreams® Test: Non-Verbal Memory Test.

• Executive Function

• Brain Areas Involved: Frontal Lobes.
• Affected Abilities: Executive function impacts how we function in a complex world.
• Problems with executive function can lead to: Poor organization, difficulty in decision making, difficulties in prioritization of things to do, difficulties in completing multi-step tasks, poor judgment, poor problem solving ability.
• MindStreams® Areas of Focus: Problem solving, ability to pay attention to important stimuli and avoid unimportant stimuli, ability to solve puzzles, ability to plan a course of action organization, ability to shift efficiently from task to next task, sequencing and prioritization, judgment, abstract reasoning, analytical skills and working memory.
• MindStreams® Tests: Similiarities and Judgement Test, Reality Testing, GoNoGo Inhibition Test.

• Visual Spatial

• Brain Areas Involved: Parietal and Occipital Lobes.
• Affected Abilities: Visual spatial perception impacts ability to function in the world.
• Problems with visual spatial perception can lead to: Difficulty following travel directions, difficulty reading maps, difficulty navigating streets, and unsafe driving
• MindStreams® Areas of Focus: visual spatial perception and imagery via mental rotation of stationary objects.
• MindStreams® Test: Spatial Orientation Test.
  
  

• Verbal Function

• Brain Areas Involved: Frontal and temporal lobes.
• Affected Abilities: Impacts overall ability to communicate.
• Problems with verbal skills can lead to: Decreased spontaneous speech, word finding difficulty, difficulty in comprehension, difficulty in naming objects or people, overall problem with communication.
• MindStreams® Areas of Focus: Ability to name objects, ability to repeat phrases, ability to list names of things in a category (e.g., list of fruits), ability to find the best rhyming word, ability to determine if a word is real.
• MindStreams® Test: Language skills test.