Review Article

Decision-Making in Multiple Sclerosis Patients: A Systematic Review

Table 1

Tests used to assess cognitive domains other than decision-making.

Executive functioning IQProcessing speed and attention capacityMemory

Shifting:
(i) Trail Making Test B (TMT-B)
National Adult reading test (NART, premorbid IQ)Symbol Digit Modalities Test (SDMT)Rey auditory verbal learning test (RAVLT)

Inhibition
(i) Hayling sentence completion
(ii) Stroop time
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-III (WAIS-II, current IQ)Trail Making Test A (TMT-A)Selective reminding test (SRT)

Updating:
(i) Verbal fluency (letter and category)
(ii) Digit span backwards
9-hole PegboardAdult Memory and Information Processing Battery (AMIPB story/figure)

Planning:
(i) Wisconsin Card sorting test
(ii) Modified card sorting test (MCST)
(iii) Stockings of Cambridge (SOC)
(iv) Tower of Hanoi
(v) Tower of London
Digit span forward10/36 spatial recalling

Behavioural Assessment of the Dysexecutive Syndrome (BADS)Paced Auditory Serial Addition (PASAT)7/24 spatial recalling
(i) Raven’s coloured progressive matrices