11947 IUPAC Gold Book - neuropsychological testing 10.1351/goldbook.11947 11947 current 1 Assessment, under standardized conditions, of an individual’s brain function as it impacts upon cognitive function, thought processes, behavior and personality. Such tests are designed to measure a psychological function known to be linked to a particular brain structure or pathway and often measure reaction times, motor performance or cognitive association. An initial training period may be required so that each individual starts the testing at an optimized performance level, although most neuropsychological assessments compare an individual’s raw score to a normative sample score of the population. brain https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/11647 cognitive function https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/11684 motor activity https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/11883 PAC, 2015, 87, 841. 'IUPAC Glossary of terms used in neurotoxicology (IUPAC Recommendations 2015)' on page 890 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2015-0103) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11947/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11947/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11947/plain Citation: 'neuropsychological testing' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.11947 The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) for individual terms. If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org . The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using. 2026-08-09T16:51:14+00:00