Loopy Lou
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I just had my phone appointment with the neuropsychologist to discuss my results. Apparently now they don't send out the full report until they've discussed it in an appointment first, so hopefully i'll get the full report in the next couple of weeks. It's measured in percentiles, so 50 would be average, 59 would say that you did better than 59% of people, etc.
For verbal skills, reasoning and general IQ i got 99% so that's good
My processing speed was around 40% which is below the average, but she said she considered that very low for me.
My auditory/verbal memory was just about average. I couldn't remember details of short stories and repeat them, but i have an excellent memory for strings of numbers, so the numbers saved me there.
My word-finding was also pretty low (where they say to you "tell me 10 animals that begin with S" or something along those lines) but she said that would be related to my low processing speed. She said the low processing speed is something that is very common in people with epilepsy, though i'm not sure if she meant epilepsy in general or temporal lobe like i have.
For executive functioning (attention and switching tasks) i did fine on the tasks but when switching it took my brain a little while to get in gear and change direction of thought. I did have a small seizure whilst doing this bit which probably didn't help.
Everything else came back as above average. So basically i think that boils down to i'm smart, but i'm pretty slow about it, so go me!
I'll look forward to receiving the actual report, the above is just notes i scribbled while i was having my phone appointment.
I wonder how it would compare to the tests i had done back in 2011-2012ish
For verbal skills, reasoning and general IQ i got 99% so that's good
My processing speed was around 40% which is below the average, but she said she considered that very low for me.
My auditory/verbal memory was just about average. I couldn't remember details of short stories and repeat them, but i have an excellent memory for strings of numbers, so the numbers saved me there.
My word-finding was also pretty low (where they say to you "tell me 10 animals that begin with S" or something along those lines) but she said that would be related to my low processing speed. She said the low processing speed is something that is very common in people with epilepsy, though i'm not sure if she meant epilepsy in general or temporal lobe like i have.
For executive functioning (attention and switching tasks) i did fine on the tasks but when switching it took my brain a little while to get in gear and change direction of thought. I did have a small seizure whilst doing this bit which probably didn't help.
Everything else came back as above average. So basically i think that boils down to i'm smart, but i'm pretty slow about it, so go me!

I wonder how it would compare to the tests i had done back in 2011-2012ish