Advanced Testing, Interpretation and Therapeutics:

Cognitive impairment can be caused by a multitude of factors, and often a combination of many.

With this advanced testing software, Dr. Karin duncan can evaluate your individual cognitive performance combined with subjective assessments to establish a personalized treatment protocol for you.

 

  dr. karin is commited to the discernment between:

 
 

Attention and/or focus disorder

Stress

Substance abuse

Thyroid dysfunction

Mood disorders

Long-haul infectious process(es)

Brain injuries

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)

Microbiome imbalance

Cognitive Impairment/ Dementia

 
 

The wide arrays of dementia diagnoses is a confusing and arduous journey. These tasks and tests, along with your work with Dr. Karin duncan, will help clarify your own concerns and strategically address your risk factors and set goals for healing.  

For more information from Dr. Karin, click the link below:

 

A Little More About the Creyos Brain Testing

The Creyos (formerly Cambridge Brain Sciences) tasks were developed in the laboratory of Dr. Adrian Owen, former Canada Excellence Research Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience and Imaging (owenlab.org), over the course of his 30+ year career. The tasks assess aspects of cognition including:

  • reasoning

  • memory

  • attention

  • verbal ability

To take a sample cognitive test and orient to the software, please click below:

More nerdy info from Dr. K:

Over 300 scientific studies have been run to date using the Creyos tasks, yielding numerous publications in leading academic journals.

The tasks have been validated in studies of patients, brain imaging studies of healthy volunteers, and in several large-scale public studies involving tens of thousands of volunteers.

They have proven to be efficient and sensitive measures of baseline cognitive capacity.

For example, in one study, the results of the 30-minute Creyos battery were comparable to those of a standard 2-3 hour (paper and pencil) neuropsychological battery (WAIS-R) (Levine et al., 2013).

In another recent study of mental capacity in the elderly, the Creyos battery outperformed a standard task of cognitive abilities (the MoCA) (Brenkelet al., 2017).

Finally, performance on the Creyos battery is highly predictive of reasoning and problem solving abilities, as indexed by “classic” tasks such as Raven’s Matrices and the Cattell Culture Fair task (Hampshire et al., 2012)