METHOD FOR ASSESSMENT OF COGNITIVE FUNCTIONS OF SCHOOL-AGED CHILDREN IN POPULATION STUDIES Russian patent published in 2019 - IPC A61B5/00 

FIELD: medicine; psychophysiology.

SUBSTANCE: invention refers to medicine, namely to neurophysiology, namely to medical and clinical-psychological diagnostics, and can be used to assess a degree of cognitive impairment in children. Method involves evaluating random attention on the speed and accuracy of searching for numbers, visual-spatial memory, short-term speech-and-speech memory and delayed speech-and-speech memory, verbal-logical thinking, constructive praxis and visual-figurative thinking. At that, voluntary attention by speed and accuracy of number search, as well as visual-spatial memory is evaluated by means of computer psychophysiological complex "Psychomat". Tests reflecting processes of thinking, verbal memory and constructive praxis are evaluated by means of subtests: Wechsler Intelligence Scale (WISC) and neuropsychological diagnostics by Luria. Subjects are offered the following tests: "Attention on arrangement of numbers", "Mnemotest", "10 words memory", "Complex analogies", "Kohs Block Design Test", "Understanding of subject pictures". Performance of tests is evaluated in percentage and compared with test criteria, which correspond to a group of risk of mental retardation and mild cognitive impairment on the scale of evaluation of rapid diagnosis of cognitive functions. That is followed by evaluating the number of performed tasks according to which the child is referred to a risk group by a certain pathology or is excluded from this pathology.

EFFECT: method enables objectively and individually assessing cognitive functions in children by evaluating the complex of the most significant tests.

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