TY - JOUR
T1 - Cognitive assessment of OCD patients: NeuroVR vs neuropsychological test
AU - La Paglia, F
AU - La Cascia, C
AU - Rizzo, R
AU - Cangialosi, F
AU - Sanna, M
AU - Riva, Giuseppe
AU - La Barbera, D.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - This study aimed to evaluate the reliability and validity of the Neuro-Virtual Reality as tool for the neuropsychological assessment in OCD patients. We used the neuropsychological battery and a virtual version of the Multiple Errand Test (V-MET), developed using the NeuroVR software, in order to evaluate the executive functions, the ability to plan ahead on complex problem solving tasks in daily life in 30 obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) patients and 30 healthy controls. The results showed the presence of difficulties of OCD patients: lower levels of divided attention and higher levels of errors; higher mean rank of inefficiencies, interpretation failures and rule breaks and longer time of execution of the whole task. By contrast, controls have higher level of efficiency and better performance. In addition, a significant correlation was found between the V-MET and the neuropsychological battery which confirms and supports the ecological validity of neurocognitive assessment through NeuroVirtual Reality. © 2014 The authors and IOS Press.
AB - This study aimed to evaluate the reliability and validity of the Neuro-Virtual Reality as tool for the neuropsychological assessment in OCD patients. We used the neuropsychological battery and a virtual version of the Multiple Errand Test (V-MET), developed using the NeuroVR software, in order to evaluate the executive functions, the ability to plan ahead on complex problem solving tasks in daily life in 30 obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) patients and 30 healthy controls. The results showed the presence of difficulties of OCD patients: lower levels of divided attention and higher levels of errors; higher mean rank of inefficiencies, interpretation failures and rule breaks and longer time of execution of the whole task. By contrast, controls have higher level of efficiency and better performance. In addition, a significant correlation was found between the V-MET and the neuropsychological battery which confirms and supports the ecological validity of neurocognitive assessment through NeuroVirtual Reality. © 2014 The authors and IOS Press.
KW - Obsessive-compulsive disorder
KW - executive functions
KW - neuropsychological assessment
KW - virtual multiple errands test
KW - Obsessive-compulsive disorder
KW - executive functions
KW - neuropsychological assessment
KW - virtual multiple errands test
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10807/64789
U2 - 10.3233/978-1-61499-401-5-40
DO - 10.3233/978-1-61499-401-5-40
M3 - Article
SP - 40
EP - 44
JO - Not available
JF - Not available
ER -