The NAB is a comprehensive, integrated, modular battery of 33 new neuropsychological tests developed to assess a wide array of neuropsychological skills and functions in adults (ages 18-97 years) who have known or suspected disorders of the central nervous system. The individual tests are grouped into six modules: Attention, Language, Memory, Spatial, Executive Functions, and Screening (which allows the clinician to determine which of the other five domain-specific modules are appropriate to administer to an individual patient).

The NAB has excellent psychometric properties, includes extensive normative and validation data, provides clinical information that meets the needs of a broad range of modern referral sources, and offers two equivalent forms that reduce practice effects and facilitate reevaluation. The examiner can administer the entire NAB for a comprehensive evaluation of neuropsychological functioning in less than 4 hours.

The NAB was created and developed over a 7-year period and was funded, in part, through grants from the National Institute of Mental Health. Decisions pertaining to the content and format of the NAB were guided by the results of the publisher's national survey of neuropsychological assessment practices and needs, as well as by the feedback and guidance of members of the NAB Advisory Council (a group of experts recognized nationally in the field of clinical neuropsychology) and numerous other consultants and contributors.

NAB Advisory Council

• Cynthia R. Cimino, PhD, University of South Florida
  
• Robert K. Heaton, PhD, University of California at San Diego School of Medicine
  
• Nancy Helm-Estabrooks, SciD, Boston University School of Medicine (Language/Aphasia Consultant)
  
• Glenn J. Larrabee, PhD, Independent Practice in Clinical Neuropsychology, Sarasota, FL
  
• Wilfred G. van Gorp, PhD, Columbia University School of Medicine
  
• Kathleen A. Welsh-Bohmer, PhD, Duke University Medical Center
  
• David J. Williamson, PhD, Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical

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NAB Administration, Scoring, and Interpretation Manual
Chapter 1: Introduction, click here.
Chapter 2: NAB Materials, click here.

NAB Psychometric and Technical Manual
Chapter 1: Introduction, click here.
Chapter 2: Development of the NAB, click here.
Chapter 3: Standardization, click here.
Chapter 4: Development of the Norms, click here.
Chapter 5: Reliability and Score Differences, click here.
Chapter 6: Validity of NAB Score Interpretation, click here.
References, click here.
Appendix A. Contributors to the NAB, click here.
Appendix C. Module Intercorrelation Tables, click here.
Appendix D. Descriptive Statistics for Raw Scores in the Special Group Studies, click here.

Click here for the NAB Bibliography.

Note: If you are purchasing a NAB module kit--with the exception of the Screening Module--we strongly recommend that you also purchase the NAB Administration, Scoring, and Interpretation Manual (Item #WW-5088-TM) and the NAB Demographically Corrected Norms Manual (Item #WW-5091-TM). All kits include the NAB Video Training Program DVD and the NAB-SP.

Qualification Level: C--NAB Complete Kit
Qualification Level: B--NAB Screening Kit
Qualification Level: C--NAB Conversion Kit


Qualification Level: B--4 NAB Manuals, all Screening Module Components, all Language Module Components, NAB-SP
Qualification Level: C--Components for 4 Main Modules (Attention, Memory, Spatial, and Executive Function), and Score Summary/Profile Forms