Overview

This project is aimed at advancing neuropsychological diagnostics, enriching and modernizing the panorama of both clinical and forensic psychometric testing. The rapid socio-demographic changes, the developments of neuropsychological semiotics and nosography, as well as the growing applicative specialization of neuropsychological assessment make it necessary to introduce further tools to satisfy the diagnostic requests in clinical contexts and more recently in the forensic field (i.e., tests to be administered remotely; bedside screeners; domain-specific in-depth tests; tools for assessing testamentary capacity).

Specifically, the present study aims to: a) develop, calibrate and evaluate the psychometric properties of I and II level clinical and/or forensic neuropsychological tests evaluating instrumental and non-instrumental functions in a sample of neurologically healthy individuals representative of the Italian population ; b) evaluate the cross-sectional and longitudinal clinical usability of the aforementioned tests in clinical samples (patients with neurological and neuropsychiatric pathologies of different etiology).

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Clinical populations: clinical diagnosis of either neurological (e.g., vascular and degenerative aetiologies) or psychiatric disorders.
• Healthy controls: not applicable

Exclusion Criteria:

• Clinical populations:
  1. Clinical diagnosis not of interest;
  2. Severe general medical conditions;
  3. Uncorrected vision/hearing deficits.
• Healthy controls:
  1. Presence of brain disorders;
  2. Severe general medical conditions;
  3. Uncorrected vision/hearing deficits.