EMOTICOM: A neuropsychological test battery to evaluate emotion, motivation, impulsivity, and social cognition

TY - JOUR

T1 - EMOTICOM

T2 - A neuropsychological test battery to evaluate emotion, motivation, impulsivity, and social cognition

AU - Bland, Amy R.

AU - Roiser, Jonathan P.

AU - Mehta, Mitul A.

AU - Schei, Thea

AU - Boland, Heather

AU - Campbell-Meiklejohn, Daniel K.

AU - Emsley, Richard A.

AU - Munafo, Marcus R.

AU - Penton-Voak, Ian S.

AU - Seara-Cardoso, Ana

AU - Viding, Essi

AU - Voon, Valerie

AU - Sahakian, Barbara J.

AU - Robbins, Trevor W.

AU - Elliott, Rebecca

PY - 2016/2/24

Y1 - 2016/2/24

N2 - In mental health practice, both pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatments are aimed at improving neuropsychological symptoms, including cognitive and emotional impairments. However, at present there is no established neuropsychological test battery that comprehensively covers multiple affective domains relevant in a range of disorders. Our objective was to generate a standardized test battery, comprised of existing, adapted and novel tasks, to assess four core domains of affective cognition (emotion processing, motivation, impulsivity and social cognition) in order to facilitate and enhance treatment development and evaluation in a broad range of neuropsychiatric disorders. The battery was administered to 200 participants aged 18-50 years (50% female), 42 of whom were retested in order to assess reliability. An exploratory factor analysis identified 11 factors with eigenvalues greater than 1, which accounted for over 70% of the variance. Tasks showed moderate to excellent test-retest reliability and were not strongly correlated with demographic factors such as age or IQ. The EMOTICOM test battery is therefore a promising tool for the assessment of affective cognitive function in a range of contexts.

AB - In mental health practice, both pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatments are aimed at improving neuropsychological symptoms, including cognitive and emotional impairments. However, at present there is no established neuropsychological test battery that comprehensively covers multiple affective domains relevant in a range of disorders. Our objective was to generate a standardized test battery, comprised of existing, adapted and novel tasks, to assess four core domains of affective cognition (emotion processing, motivation, impulsivity and social cognition) in order to facilitate and enhance treatment development and evaluation in a broad range of neuropsychiatric disorders. The battery was administered to 200 participants aged 18-50 years (50% female), 42 of whom were retested in order to assess reliability. An exploratory factor analysis identified 11 factors with eigenvalues greater than 1, which accounted for over 70% of the variance. Tasks showed moderate to excellent test-retest reliability and were not strongly correlated with demographic factors such as age or IQ. The EMOTICOM test battery is therefore a promising tool for the assessment of affective cognitive function in a range of contexts.

KW - EMOTICOM

KW - Implusivity

KW - Mental health

KW - Motivation and emotion

KW - Neuropsychiatry

KW - Neuropsychological tests

KW - Social cognition

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84960081355&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.3389/fnbeh.2016.00025

DO - 10.3389/fnbeh.2016.00025

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:84960081355

SN - 1662-5153

VL - 10

SP - 1

EP - 17

JO - Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

JF - Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

IS - FEB

M1 - 25

ER -