I have experienced this twice. It can be grueling at times, but worth it. This is especially true if you may have been diagnosed with other disorders such as depression or anxiety. What makes it grueling is that it stretches your brain in several directions within a three to four-hour span. If a professional has recommended this assessment, by all means, take the time to do it. As a highly educated person, it was difficult to understand that I have a learning disability. It is nothing to be ashamed of any more than my living with epilepsy for over fifty years. There is a definite connection to my living with epilepsy and my having a learning disability. This video is the best that I have found that describes the test in the most basic terms.

As a psychiatric nurse practitioner I appreciate this. It always surprises me how often people (even primary care providers) do not know what this is or really the difference between psychiatry and psychology (I get referred to as a "psychologist" all the time). I refer for neuropsych testing frequently to help clarify some diagnosis. I always say psychiatry, psychology and neurology are all work on the brain in different ways, we are in the sandbox together, but we are not interchangeable.

Please do more videos about neuropsychology! I love quick videos like this :)

Robert! I'd love to hear you talk about so many things. Here are a few: 1. How the body remembers trauma (affects on the limbic system, "survival/fight or flight" mode, adrenals etc) 2. Intergenerational mental health issues, like second hand trauma, living with a parent with a mental health and/or mood disorder 3. Communicating with a partner about your mood disorder 4. The spectrum of treatment for mental health/mood disorders. Options like: movement meditation, mindfulness based cognitive therapy, therapy lights, exercise, journaling, etc. anything related to self care 5. Building resilience and self compassion when you are experience difficulty, depression, etc These are all thoughts that have been very pertinent to me during my recovery from depression. My father died by suicide when I was 18 (I'm 26 now), and a lot of the shock and post traumatic stress has stayed with me. I have invested a tremendous about of time and effort this year into unlearning shame, guilt, conditional self love, maladaptive perfectionism... But this is always an evolving and ongoing conversation! So grateful to have found this channel a few years ago.

I was first introduced to all of this when I started having seizures, when I was about 8 years old. It took some time, a variety of tests, and working with several doctors of different specialties to officially get the epilepsy diagnosis. It was complicated to diagnose because I never remember my seizures, so I could never explain them to doctors

really great explanation for this area in psychology. Thanks for sharing.

Really appreciate this concise and clear explaination. Thank you Dr Duff!

Thanks for this! You left a message on my mother's phone telling her to look through Kaiser and now I have an appointment next week lol. I'm pretty excited.

Love this - Thank you - I am going to seek out some neuropsychologists in Australia right away! I had no idea this service existed !

This short complete intro abt neuropsychological assessment is quite helpful for my assignment 💛

I had one of these this week. I had a car accident two years ago and my memory is terrible now, lack of keeping new memories and forgetting things.

This video was very helpful for me and my Mom who was just ordered a Neuropsychological Examination. Thanks a lot. BTW, it was the best video I found on the subject. You do great work, TY again.

this is what I'm learning about in university right now!! my cognition lectures have been about the theory behind this kind of thing. It's very cool to hear about how this is applied!!

I enjoyed learning about the methods used in this field. Likely I would never have searched for this info until it was something I needed to know about in my personal life, but I'm glad I learned about it. It brought to mind some questions I have that I've never looked into, specifically the difference between dementia and Alzheimer's.

Great video! Thanks for taking the time to make it.

Great explanation of your specialty. It’s exactly what I need

Super-informative. Thank you!

Great video! I enjoyed the clear explanation of the differences between Neuropsychologists & Neurologists

Love the videos because I'm going to school for psychology. These little videos always help me

It was so surreal watching this in my university class after falling asleep to your asmr videos all those years back!

This is so cool! I'd love to learn more about what you do and how you can help people

Excellent explanation!! so useful for my test!!

I love these educational videos. I hope you make more of these. I'd love to hear more about different conditions or therapies. Also, I think it would be pretty neat if you could do a roleplay of such an assessment if that is somehow possible. Keep it up!

I love learning about psychology, so these videos are great. I've always wondered how you test people, or come to the conclusion, that someone has a personality disorder. Thanks for being so educational ! 😄

Thank you for this video. I just turned 40 and I’ve had my MRI done… failed 2 memory test, and had my CT scan done yesterday. The MRI the doctor said was abnormal. I had white lesions on my brain. My memory is crap! Forgetting my kids names at school, assignments to grade, paying my bills… just crazy man.. I’m so nervous as I have an appointment for this type of evaluation in October…. I haven’t told anyone, but I just needed to see what to look for… thank you for this video again.

This was very helpful! Thank you.

Great explanation

Question: Can an assessment be made through a digital testing performance of the client to give computation results to the neuropsychologist rather than thruogh an interview?

i'v got a assessment coming up on the 30th of may, I remember doing one of the these over 10years ago, the stupid DVLA and past the tests and could not deny my driving licence anymore. I took lessons in car years ago and I was ready to do my test

This is pretty much the process Vocational Rehabilitation sent me to a few years ago, and I finally got a diagnosis of dyscalculia. It's pretty severe--I can't really do jobs where there is any kind of accounting, budgeting, or number analysis (practically everything). In fact, I had the perfect job and it changed to that right out from under me, so now I'm unemployed and have to start all over. 😠 (Maybe one of my novels will hit it big and I'll never have to do it again--ha ha, you never know!) Even so, it really felt good to finally find out what the hell was going on. For most of my life, I just thought I was stupid. 😐

I really liked this. Thank you!

Very helpful and clear. Thank you

I had a neuropsychological assessment at UCLA hospital in April. It was for a chromosome research study. it took 5 days and was emotionally traumatizing. But we got good information out of it. You seem like a really good psychologist 😊 thanks for making videos

I really like that listen to your video .. I did not understand what the test meant

Does the test with the two dimensional blocks have to do with motor planning specifically? I was shadowing an OT the other day and the client was told to put a puzzle together while looking at the completed picture. He is in OT due to motor planning difficulties as well as other problems that persist with autism.

Hi! I liked your video very much, it was informative and easy to understand as a beginner practical nurse. I would like to know more about the rehabilitation process from the neuropsychological perspective. I have had a hard time to find information about it. Good information always gets out in english first, there is very few videos about neuropsychology in my language (swedish). Someone (maybe I should) translate your videos.

Hello thank you for sharing this video.

great assesment love your video so brilliant ^^ 💞

thanks alot dr. Duff ... can you tell me how i can write a reveiw about neuropsychological tests in brain injuries... in general

Love these videos! I find it weird how I get ASMR from educational videos that you upload.

What portion of this test covers math processing abilities and what categories of information does that info tell?

mine was six hours. After a head trauma, this was very difficult.

Hi Doctor Robert I’m wondering how education plays a part,say for example if someone where to go to university as a mature student as opposed to going in straight after school-is there a difference take on people’s results Thank you

Hi, I am doing biotech atm and I found out about a masters I can do afterwards which is clinical neuropsychology. If I was to do training and a PhD after this would I be able to become a therapist?

I have to take a neuropsychological test for my job since I was diagnosed with ADHD as a child. I’m a little worried about it. I need to prove that my functionality is completely within normal limits and lacking any suspicion of aeromedically significant neurocognitive deficit. When l’m worried I tend to over prepared, I don’t know if this is something I can study for. Is it something I can study for and if so, what would that look like?

Thank you

That's cool. I'd like to get tests like that done on me sometime.... Just to see what it comes up with. I'm interested in MBTI so yeah

what effects do large blast, parachuting, can have on the brain, how can you bet the test

Do Neuropsychologists proceed brain scanning as well? or just psychological testing?

What is the best place to get neuropschology cognitive test done for adult and kids. Please share top 5 places in usa that can help dyslexia diagnosis and give written evaluation that school/ academic coaches can use

When u do clinical neuropsychology Is there a practical side to neuropsychologists? And if u do clinical neuropsychology can u go to either clinical or neuropsychology field?

I love this video because this is exactly what I want to do. It seems like whenever people ask me what I plan to do after graduation and I say "i want to be a neuropsychologist" they just go completely blank and have no idea what I'm talking about so I'll definitely have to save the link to this. I'm curious though, What do you like about your job? I lthink everything about neuropsychology is so interesting, but the idea of sitting for hours and then writing reports is a biiiiiitttt daunting /: Also, I'm a senior right now so I already got my acceptances for my my top two schools for undergrad with a major in Psychology (yay!), but what would be the next step four years down the line once I get my degree? I can't find very clear answers on google.Thanks! (:

Throughout my Life I have had 6 NABs 3rd Grade, 5th Grade, 8th Grade, 11th Grade, Pre-College, Post College.

I hope I am not repeating a question, but how does a neuropsychologist test chronic pain issues? My pain management doctor just referred me to a neuropsychologist for 6 hours of testing. I have chronic nerve pain and my doctor wants to look into how much my depression/anxiety plays a role in my chronic nerve pain. I just want to know what expect. Thanks.

I’m a junior in high school and am thinking of being a neuropsychologist. It seems very interesting to me, do u have any tips on how to become one?

can we do the neuropsychological assessment online? since we r not in a developed country

Very very helpful! I love psychology and I am currently a 2nd year undergrad at UNC Chapel hill and I am really interested in going into this field of work, especially in the pediatric setting. I am really interested in testing and diagnosing children with problems with learning/ memory and giving them strategies to improve. I have been looking at neuropsychology as a potential fields. I have 1 question, how is this field different from cognitive psychology or rehabilitation neuropsychology? And what educational steps should I expect to make to become either one of these?

Have you ever helped a person with ME/cfs??

my school did a battery test for adhd on me, stroop, wauss (sp?), and some some ivas(sp?), something where i had to draw lines to numbers in ascending order, etc.. they said they recommended neuropsychological testing and my results as of their tests would suggest problems with working memory... i thought what they did was neuropsychological testing...? Of what true benefit would it be for me to get a full battery from a neuropsychologist? It is quite expensive, is it even worth it?

Hello Duff first I wanna say that I'm enjoying your channel alot I find it very informative and helpful. I'm a psychology student who is about to specialize and I find neuropsychology fascinating and highly intresting but I want to know can a clinical neuropsychologist conduct psychotherapies like a clinical psychologist or is the activity only centered about individuals with seizures and dementia? Sorry for my English.

you should try to do a neuropsychological assessment session ASMR video... There is probably potential there...

So what would you call a neuropsychologist with a medical degree (being able to prescribe medication).

So, i have a question for you. If i need pain (mostly being sad) next to happiness to function normally, would you consider that a condition or just a harmless result of some big life trauma? I was just wondering. It seems like quite often happy can hurt and hurt can feel very positive and happy, i am really interested in you answering this question! And yes, it's not sometimes, it's almost always like that.. I was diagnosed with depression 2 years ago. It makes me think i might have Biploar? Help me out. I really don't wanna go to a psychiatrist again, it's not a fun experience. And no, i consider myself to not be depressed, i am not having any depressing thoughts or anything like that. Just there always gotta be 50% of pain and 50% of happiness for me to function normally. Sometimes it can lead to having more percentage of either happiness and pain, but it's mostly in the middle. I really have no idea what this is.

Can you determine depression, anxiety through this test?

I want to be a psychologist I’m a undergraduate still trying to obtain high school equivalency diploma. I’m afraid of that I have low vocabulary skill and poor memory, not sure if this would be the right career for me. I been in a 10 year relationship with a narcissist who is medically diagnosed with bipolar disorder, it’s a cataclysmic nature to find this field very intriguing.

What would you suggest if a patient cannot take a test that is that long? My father has signs of dementia but cannot do anything for more than 15 mins straight

Hi Dr. Duff, are you still monitoring this channel, are you still in practice? With DID, say, with rapid changes from one personality to another, is. there a mini-psyche-battery of tests that could be administered in less than 5 minutes? Why? Because you might have no longer than that before the personality state changes - or tries to mask itself

Do neuropsychologists also study how actions affect the brain like hippocampus etc

Hello! I was wondering how often a client would come see you. Is this just a one time occurrence, several times a year or perhaps even as much as once a week?

What if you think you have a personality/dissociative disorder? Can they diagnose that because I'm in a lot of emotional pain right now and I would do absolutely anything for help. my school counselor referred me onto a neuropsychiatrist and I'm more concerned about my emotional pain

What do you mean by battery? Can you explain to me what is the neuropsychological assessment 10/66? Thank you so much for the video it's so helpful!

I did appreciate the clarity of explanation within a 6.5min time frame. My question is I have a notable TBI (related vascular issues & now brain tumor) how can I find a good neuropsychologist?

What if you hit your frontal lob forehead when you are young and later you get adhd and you can’t remember the steps with math problems but you can remember numbers

Do a cranial nerve exam, but like actually. I feel like you're the most qualified to give us an assessment. 😂

what is the duration of this course?

Hi There! I was wondering if this sort of assesment would be of any use in regards to execuctive functions disorder in a school aged child? Tic disorder or Torrettes Syndrome, early child hood anxiety/panic disorder or a learning disorder? Also, who can refer you for the neuropsycological assessment? Who do I need to see first (steps) to have the assessment done? I would like to hear more about the outcomes for children, what does the assessment do for them long term? How does it benefit them? What strategies are likely to be put into practice once the assessment has been performed? What other professions will be included in the results of the assessment? How are these results communicated to the family and what options are available to them once recieved?

Neurotic sometimes here Sir', especially when I got happy thoughts', then manifesting good memories that I can picture in my brain ehehehehehee...☺

I want to go into neuropsychology. I am 40, thinking it's a bit old to start applying for a psy D program with a specialty in neuropsychology. What's your take on that? Also, I had a car accident a while ago, and the neuropsychologist charged $6,000 U.S. dollars for 4 hours of evaluation. Do neuropsychologist usually charge this much for conducting neuropsychological evaluation?

To trry and regain some memory and all that, coupd I play a Role Playing game on my Xbox?

Good explanation. Do you think an accurate conclusion can be made in a situation where an employer forced an employee to have one done? H&W department are very interfering with employees health. In my case they are disputing adult Adhd. I’m resentful and feel this will affect me considerably.

I just had one.

Could you talk about how neuropsychology can help with Dyscalculia.

What do you diagnose

I have had brain surgery my pre surgery I had psychological issues and post brain surgery I got still psychological issues can you tel me can I recovery from my psychological issues my surgeon also mentioned its cognitive and brain networks issues. And I do feel I am not same person I don't have feelings and emotions please reply me therapies will help me make my brain normal?

Do you have videos explaining about the assessments in todllers? Thanks

why do uou use drawings of animals.. is that to do with visual perception as well.does that test for visual .as well. and how do you determine education level. say for instance highschool vs college level.. are there test you use to determin education level..

Please, how a neuropsychological assessment is made in a kid with ASD and ADHD/ODD with speech delay? Is there any developmental stage the kid had to reach to be assessed?

What do you do while the patient is going through the workbook and doing the test?

I am neuropsychologist too and an ASMR lover for some years now... xoxoo!

I just finished having a neuropsychological test and it’s exactly how the Dr. described it. My neurologist referred me to get one as I have white matter and a new lesions with a possibility of MS. I also go covid twice which has effected me a great deal. Thank for this video Dr 👨‍⚕️ great insight.

Interesting.

This sounds a lot like the autism/IQ/EQ tests I took recently. Are they roughly the same type of thing?

Autism theory for childpsycology very useful 😊

Does insurance cover these tests? How do you find tests in your area?

Im not sure if you cover it, but could you cover the differant aspects of the autistic spectrum.

I went through one a few months ago...it was an exhausting 3hrs

any issues that neuropsychologist are currently facing?

i am a student in behavioral neuroscience

Don't Neuropsychologists study the anatomical structure as well? I know you say that the neurologist looks at the anatomical structure, but I was also under the impression that neuropsychs do as well. A friend is a neuropsych and she has mentioned reviewing MRIs and CT scans and using those images to aid her in the diagnosis after an assessment.

How can these test help with people who had brain anoxia? Without a baseline how is it valid?