Multiple Sclerosis, August 2001,
vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 263-267(5)
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.
Boringa J.B. [5]; Lazeron R.H.C.
[2]; Reuling I.E.W. [3]; Adèr H.J. [4]; Pfennings L.E.M.A. [3];
Lindeboom J. [3]; de Sonneville L.M.J. [1]; Kalkers N.F. [1]; Polman C.H.
[1] *
[1] Department of Neurology, Academisch
Ziekenhuis Vrije Universiteit 1007 MB Amsterdam, The Netherlands [2] Department
of Diagnostic Radiology, Academisch Ziekenhuis Vrije Universiteit 1007
MB Amsterdam, The Netherlands [3] Department of Medical Psychology, Academisch
Ziekenhuis Vrije Universiteit 1007 MB Amsterdam, The Netherlands [4] Department
of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Academisch Ziekenhuis Vrije
Universiteit 1007 MB Amsterdam, The Netherlands [5] Department of Neurology,
Ziekenhuis Eemland 3800 BM Amersfoort, The Netherlands [*] Correspondence:
CH Polman, Department of Neurology, Academisch Ziekenhuis Vrije Universiteit,
PO Box 7057, 1007 MB Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Abstract: