A process-oriented functional capacity assessment: First application of the neuropsychological evaluation of the UPSA (NEUPSA)
Alannah Miranda, Breanna M. Holloway, Elizabeth Peek, Holden Rosberg, Karli Raven, Elizabeth W. Twamley, Arpi Minassian, William Perry · 2026
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Alannah Miranda and colleagues pilot a process-focused scoring system for daily-life skills tests in a 2026 study. Standard skills tests record whether people complete tasks like managing money or medicines. The new system, NEUPSA, also scores the thinking processes behind each performance.
Eighty-eight people from a cannabis and bipolar disorder study took a standard skills test. Raters scored memory, attention, impulse control, processing speed, and planning during the tasks. Several NEUPSA domain scores matched scores on standard computer tests of thinking. Healthy people generally outscored the clinical groups, and scores separated cannabis and bipolar groups as well. The authors call for more work and wider testing of the tool.
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| CREATOR | Alannah Miranda, Breanna M. Holloway, Elizabeth Peek, Holden Rosberg, Karli Raven, Elizabeth W. Twamley, Arpi Minassian, William Perry |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 31 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |