Addiction Specialists
Can Creyos Health diagnose addiction severity or psychiatric disorders?
Creyos Health's cognitive task battery is designed to be an assessment, rather than a diagnostic tool. The objective data on how a patient compares with an age-matched population may assist in the diagnosis of disorders with a cognitive component, and built-in self-report questionnaires can assist in determining mental health disorder symptoms with automated scoring that highlights established cutoff scores. However, Creyos Health should be used in conjunction with other information and clinical judgement to reach conclusions regarding an individual’s health. Ultimately, Creyos Health does not replace the judgement of a qualified provider.
Can patients take Creyos Health assessments multiple times?
Creyos Health tasks are randomly generated and adapt to the patient’s performance in real time. These features make them appropriate for assessing patients multiple times, as answers cannot be prepared for or memorized, and practice effects are minimal. Many specialists use Creyos Health to assess patients regularly over the course of multiple months or years.
Who are patients being compared to in percentile scores?
Each score on the Creyos Health report is based on a comparison with a population of the same age range and gender as the patient. The population database was collected in the course of several large-scale worldwide studies, such as the Fractionating Human Intelligence paper published in Neuron. Participants in the database were not screened for any particular disorders, so it is designed to be representative of the entire population—not only healthy control participants.
Which Creyos Health tasks are most closely related with addiction?
Cognition is central to drug addiction, overall. Studies have suggested that cognition predicts treatment adherence—for example, poor reward-based decision making is linked with relapse, and executive function is in many ways the opposite of the impulsivity that can define addiction. The brain regions that underlie addiction overlap with those that support a variety of cognitive functions, and neurocognitive rehabilitation is often suggested as part of addiction treatment. That said, the specific tasks related with addiction and relapse depend on the specific type of addiction, the stage the patient is in, and factors pertaining to a single individual. Creyos generally recommends a broad assessment that covers all areas of executive function, before narrowing down testing to fit a specific patient’s needs.
Are the Creyos Health tasks valid and reliable?
Overall, Creyos Health has psychometric properties that meet or exceed the standards set by the traditional scales and tools that addiction specialists are used to. Various types of validity have been established through decades of scientific research and clinical usage, and the Creyos Health tasks are direct descendents of some of the most trusted traditional neuropsychological tests available. Reliability is strong for a short test of cognition—the tasks themselves have test-retest reliabilities in the acceptable to excellent range (see Hampshire et al., 2012), and features such as customizable email instructions and interactive tutorials further increase reliability in the healthcare context supported by Creyos Health.
Can Creyos Health assessments be sent by email as part of a telehealth plan?
Creyos Health was built from the ground up as a web-based platform that can be accessed by any patient from any location. Built-in features allow you to instantly send an assessment to a patient by email, or set up an email assessment schedule to automate remote testing. You may also generate URLs to copy into your own email system. Interactive tutorials and other instructions ensure that patients can complete tasks without supervision, and a validity indicator highlights any potentially invalid results. See also: Five Ways to Increase Compliance When Sending Cognitive Assessments by Email.
Clinical Psychologists
Can Creyos Health diagnose mental health disorders?
Creyos Health's cognitive task battery is designed to be an assessment, rather than a diagnostic tool. The objective data on how a patient compares with an age-matched population may assist in the diagnosis of disorders with a cognitive component, and built-in self-report questionnaires can assist in determining mental health disorder symptoms with automated scoring that highlights established cutoff scores. However, Creyos Health should be used in conjunction with other information and clinical judgement to reach conclusions regarding an individual’s health. Ultimately, Creyos Health does not replace the judgement of a qualified provider.
Can patients take Creyos Health assessments multiple times?
Creyos Health tasks are randomly generated and adapt to the patient’s performance in real time. These features make them appropriate for assessing patients multiple times, as answers cannot be prepared for or memorized, and practice effects are minimal. Many therapists use Creyos Health to assess patients regularly over the course of multiple months or years.
Are Creyos Health tasks valid and reliable?
Overall, Creyos Health has psychometric properties that meet or exceed the standards set by the traditional scales and tools that psychologists are accustomed to. Various types of validity have been established through decades of scientific research and clinical usage, and the Creyos Health tasks are direct descendents of some of the most trusted traditional neuropsychological tests available. Reliability is strong for a short test of cognition—the tasks themselves have test-retest reliabilities in the acceptable to excellent range (see Hampshire et al., 2012), and features such as customizable email instructions and interactive tutorials further increase reliability in the healthcare context supported by Creyos Health.
Who are patients being compared to in percentile scores?
Each score on the Creyos Health report is based on a comparison with a population of the same age range and gender as the patient. The population database was collected in the course of several large-scale worldwide studies, such as the Fractionating Human Intelligence paper published in Neuron. Participants in the database were not screened for any particular disorders, so it is designed to be representative of the entire population—not only healthy control participants.
Can Creyos Health be used with pediatric or geriatric populations?
Creyos Health can assess cognition in patients of nearly any age. The normative database includes participants from age 6 to age 75+. Healthcare providers have used Creyos Health with children ages 6 and up, as well as older individuals. Patients are always compared to a population that is in the same age range, so that normal fluctuations due to age are accounted for when interpreting results.
Which Creyos Health tasks are most closely related with anxiety?
Anxiety is known to affect cognition. In two separate sets of Creyos task data—one with 44,600 subjects (Hampshire et al., 2012) and one with 10,800 subjects (Wild et al., 2018)—researchers found a relationship between anxiety and short-term memory. Using the four tests of memory, a composite score was created and scores were significantly worse in individuals who reported regularly suffering from anxiety. Thus, Monkey Ladder, Paired Associates, Spatial Span, and Token Search may be particularly impaired in individuals suffering from anxiety and a focus when treating individuals with anxiety. However, other tasks may be related with anxiety as well in particular populations and individuals. Creyos Health also includes the GAD-7 questionnaire to collect self-report information on anxiety symptoms.
Which Creyos Health tasks are most closely related with depression?
Depression is closely linked with cognition, and a variety of Creyos task scores may be related with the severity of depression, depending on the population and the individual’s symptoms. As an example, Desai et al. (2020) found that depressive symptoms (measured by the PHQ-9) were correlated with Digit Span, Grammatical Reasoning, Paired Associates, and Token Search task scores, and also predicted future decline in these tasks. Additional cognitive areas have been associated with depression in the scientific literature, so the particular relationships will depend on the population you treat, as well as the individual’s particular situation. Creyos Health also includes the PHQ-9 questionnaire to collect self-report information on depression symptoms.
Can Creyos Health assessments be sent by email when offering telehealth services?
Creyos Health was built from the ground up as a web-based platform that can be accessed by any patient from any location. Built-in features allow you to instantly send an assessment to a patient by email, or set up an email assessment schedule to automate remote testing. You may also generate URLs to copy into your own email system. Interactive tutorials and other instructions ensure that patients can complete tasks without supervision, and a validity indicator highlights any potentially invalid results. See also: Five Ways to Increase Compliance When Sending Cognitive Assessments by Email.
Neurologists
Can Creyos Health diagnose neurological disorders?
Creyos Health's cognitive task battery is designed to be an assessment, rather than a diagnostic tool. The objective data on how a patient compares with an age-matched population may assist in the diagnosis of disorders with a cognitive component, and built-in self-report questionnaires can assist in determining mental health disorder symptoms with automated scoring that highlights established cutoff scores. However, Creyos Health should be used in conjunction with other information and clinical judgement to reach conclusions regarding an individual’s health. Ultimately, Creyos Health does not replace the judgement of a qualified provider.
Can patients take Creyos Health assessments multiple times?
Creyos Health tasks are randomly generated and adapt to the patient’s performance in real time. These features make them appropriate for assessing patients multiple times, as answers cannot be prepared for or memorized, and practice effects are minimal. Many neurologists use Creyos Health to assess patients regularly over the course of multiple months or years.
Who are patients being compared to in percentile scores?
Each score on the Creyos Health report is based on a comparison with a population of the same age range and gender as the patient. The population database was collected in the course of several large-scale worldwide studies, such as the Fractionating Human Intelligence paper published in Neuron. Participants in the database were not screened for any particular disorders, so it is designed to be representative of the entire population—not only healthy control participants.
Can Creyos Health be used with pediatric or geriatric populations?
Creyos Health can assess cognition in patients of nearly any age. The normative database includes participants from age 6 to age 75+. Healthcare providers have used Creyos Health with children ages 6 and up, as well as older individuals. Patients are always compared to a population that is in the same age range, so that normal fluctuations due to age are accounted for when interpreting results.
Are Creyos Health tasks valid and reliable?
Overall, Creyos Health has psychometric properties that meet or exceed the standards set by the traditional scales and tools that neurologists are used to. Various types of validity have been established through decades of scientific research and clinical usage, and the Creyos Health tasks are direct descendents of some of the most trusted traditional neuropsychological tests available. Reliability is strong for a short test of cognition—the tasks themselves have test-retest reliabilities in the acceptable to excellent range (see Hampshire et al., 2012), and features such as customizable email instructions and interactive tutorials further increase reliability in the healthcare context supported by Creyos Health.
Are Creyos Health tasks related with injuries and disorders that affect specific areas of the brain?
The Creyos tasks were designed with the brain in mind, and were created to assess how behavioural performance is affected by specific injuries, diseases, and disorders. Brain imaging data from healthy participants have also shown the brain regions involved in each task. Performance on each task is related with different regions of the brain—the latest neuroscience informs how Creyos Health works, and how to best interpret results. See the Brain Regions Associated With the Creyos Tasks document for more information.
Can Creyos Health assessments be sent by email when offering telemedicine services?
Creyos Health was built from the ground up as a web-based platform that can be accessed by any patient from any location. Built-in features allow you to instantly send an assessment to a patient by email, or set up an email assessment schedule to automate remote testing. You may also generate URLs to copy into your own email system. Interactive tutorials and other instructions ensure that patients can complete tasks without supervision, and a validity indicator highlights any potentially invalid results. See also: Five Ways to Increase Compliance When Sending Cognitive Assessments by Email.
Neuropsychologists
Are Creyos Health tasks valid and reliable?
Overall, Creyos Health has psychometric properties that meet or exceed the standards set by the traditional scales and tools that neuropsychologists are used to. Various types of validity have been established through decades of scientific research and clinical usage, and the Creyos Health tasks are direct descendents of some of the most trusted traditional neuropsychological tests available. Reliability is strong for a short test of cognition—the tasks themselves have test-retest reliabilities in the acceptable to excellent range (see Hampshire et al., 2012, supplementary materials), and features such as customizable email instructions and interactive tutorials further increase reliability in the healthcare context supported by Creyos Health.
What scores are provided for each Creyos Health task?
Standard scores and percentiles are provided for each task administered. Standard scores are all scaled the same way as many intelligence tests, with a population average of 100 and a standard deviation of 15, so different tasks can be directly compared with one another. Percentiles show the precise percentage of the population that the patient scored higher than. Additional metrics, such as the validity indicator and meaningful change, are also provided, and raw data can be generated to examine additional metrics, such as reaction time.
Who are patients being compared to in standard scores and percentile scores?
Each score on the Creyos Health report is based on a comparison with a population of the same age range and gender as the patient. The population database was collected in the course of several large-scale worldwide studies, such as the Fractionating Human Intelligence paper published in Neuron. The tens of thousands of participants in the database are from several countries, and were not screened for any particular disorders, so the database is designed to be representative of the entire population.
Can Creyos Health diagnose mental health disorders?
Creyos Health's cognitive task battery is designed to be an assessment, rather than a diagnostic tool. The objective data on how a patient compares with an age-matched population may assist in the diagnosis of disorders with a cognitive component, and built-in self-report questionnaires can assist in determining mental health disorder symptoms with automated scoring that highlights established cutoff scores. However, Creyos Health should be used in conjunction with other information and clinical judgement to reach conclusions regarding an individual’s health. Ultimately, Creyos Health does not replace the judgement of a qualified provider.
Is training needed to administer Creyos Health assessments and supervise patients while they take them?
Creyos Health assessments can be set up, sent, and automated by any practitioner or admin. No special training is needed, and patients do not need to be supervised or monitored while taking the tasks. A validity indicator is built in to detect unusual behaviour, and evidence has shown that tasks administered remotely are comparable to in-person testing (see Sternin, Burns, & Owen, 2019). That said, properly interpreting cognitive assessment data and making clinical judgments based on that data requires expertise. Creyos Health is one tool in the repertoire of a trained neuropsychologist or other healthcare professional, and does not replace professional expertise.
Can patients take Creyos Health assessments multiple times?
Creyos Health tasks are randomly generated and adapt to the patient’s performance in real time. These features make them appropriate for assessing patients multiple times, as answers cannot be prepared for or memorized, and practice effects are minimal. Many practitioners use Creyos Health to assess patients regularly over the course of multiple months or years. The Creyos Health normative database contains participants given multiple administrations of each task, enabling analysis of trends over time. As you work with patients, you are able to see how they compare against previous scores and baseline assessments, and how those changes compare to established norms.
Can Creyos Health be used with pediatric or geriatric populations?
Creyos Health can assess cognition in patients of nearly any age. The normative database includes participants from age 6 to age 75+. Healthcare providers have used CBS Health with children ages 6 and up, as well as older individuals. Patients are always compared to a population that is in the same age range, so that normal fluctuations due to age are accounted for when interpreting results.
Can Creyos Health assessments be sent by email when offering telehealth services?
Creyos Health was built from the ground up as a web-based platform that can be accessed by any patient from any location. Built-in features allow you to instantly send an assessment to a patient by email, or set up an email assessment schedule to automate remote testing. You may also generate URLs to copy into your own email system. Interactive tutorials and other instructions ensure that patients can complete tasks without supervision, and a validity indicator highlights any potentially invalid results. See also: Five Ways to Increase Compliance When Sending Cognitive Assessments by Email.
Occupational Therapists & Speech-Language Pathologists
Can Creyos Health diagnose a brain injury?
Creyos Health's cognitive task battery is designed to be an assessment, rather than a diagnostic tool. The objective data on how a patient compares with an age-matched population may assist in the diagnosis of disorders with a cognitive component, and built-in self-report questionnaires can assist in determining mental health disorder symptoms with automated scoring that highlights established cutoff scores. However, Creyos Health should be used in conjunction with other information and clinical judgement to reach conclusions regarding an individual’s health. Ultimately, Creyos Health does not replace the judgement of a qualified provider.
Are Creyos Health tasks related with injuries to specific areas of the brain?
The Creyos tasks were designed with the brain in mind, and were created to assess how behavioural performance is affected by specific injuries, diseases, and disorders. Brain imaging data from healthy participants have also shown the brain regions involved in each task. Performance on each task is related with different regions of the brain—the latest neuroscience informs how Creyos Health works, and how to best interpret results. See the Brain Regions Associated With the Creyos Tasks document for more information.
Can patients take Creyos Health assessments multiple times?
Creyos Health tasks are randomly generated and adapt to the patient’s performance in real time. These features make them appropriate for assessing patients multiple times, as answers cannot be prepared for or memorized, and practice effects are minimal. Many occupational therapists use Creyos Health to assess patients regularly over the course of multiple months or years.
Are Creyos Health tasks valid and reliable?
Overall, Creyos Health has psychometric properties that meet or exceed the standards set by the traditional scales and tools that healthcare providers use. Various types of validity have been established through decades of scientific research and clinical usage, and the Creyos Health tasks are direct descendents of some of the most trusted traditional neuropsychological tests available. Reliability is strong for a short test of cognition—the tasks themselves have test-retest reliabilities in the acceptable to excellent range (see Hampshire et al., 2012), and features such as customizable email instructions and interactive tutorials further increase reliability in the healthcare context supported by Creyos Health.
Who are patients being compared to in their scores?
Each score on the Creyos Health report is based on a comparison with a population of the same age range and gender as the patient. The population database was collected in the course of several large-scale worldwide studies, such as the Fractionating Human Intelligence paper published in Neuron. Participants in the database were not screened for any particular disorders, so it is designed to be representative of the entire population—not only healthy control participants.
Can Creyos Health be used with pediatric or geriatric populations?
Creyos Health can assess cognition in patients of nearly any age. The normative database includes participants from age 6 to age 75+. Healthcare providers have used Creyos Health with children ages 6 and up, as well as older individuals. Patients are always compared to a population that is in the same age range, so that normal fluctuations due to age are accounted for when interpreting results.
Can Creyos Health assessments be sent by email to integrate with telehealth services?
Creyos Health was built from the ground up as a web-based platform that can be accessed by any patient from any location. Built-in features allow you to instantly send an assessment to a patient by email, or set up an email assessment schedule to automate remote testing. You may also generate URLs to copy into your own email system. Interactive tutorials and other instructions ensure that patients can complete tasks without supervision, and a validity indicator highlights any potentially invalid results. See also: Five Ways to Increase Compliance When Sending Cognitive Assessments by Email.
Physiotherapists & Concussion Specialists
Can Creyos Health diagnose a brain injury?
Creyos Health's cognitive task battery is designed to be an assessment, rather than a diagnostic tool. The objective data on how a patient compares with an age-matched population may assist in the diagnosis of disorders with a cognitive component, and built-in self-report questionnaires can assist in determining mental health disorder symptoms with automated scoring that highlights established cutoff scores. However, Creyos Health should be used in conjunction with other information and clinical judgement to reach conclusions regarding an individual’s health. Ultimately, Creyos Health does not replace the judgement of a qualified provider.
Are Creyos Health tasks related with injuries to specific areas of the brain?
The Creyos tasks were designed with the brain in mind, and were created to assess how behavioural performance is affected by specific injuries, diseases, and disorders. Brain imaging data from healthy participants have also shown the brain regions involved in each task. Performance on each task is related with different regions of the brain—the latest neuroscience informs how Creyos Health works, and how to best interpret results. See the Brain Regions Associated With the Creyos Tasks document for more information.
Can patients take Creyos Health assessments multiple times?
Creyos Health tasks are randomly generated and adapt to the patient’s performance in real time. These features make them appropriate for assessing patients multiple times, as answers cannot be prepared for or memorized, and practice effects are minimal. Many therapists use Creyos Health to assess patients regularly over the course of multiple months or years.
Who are patients being compared to in percentile scores?
Each score on the Creyos Health report is based on a comparison with a population of the same age range and gender as the patient. The population database was collected in the course of several large-scale worldwide studies, such as the Fractionating Human Intelligence paper published in Neuron. Participants in the database were not screened for any particular disorders, so it is designed to be representative of the entire population—not only healthy control participants.
Can Creyos Health be used with pediatric or geriatric populations?
Creyos Health can assess cognition in patients of nearly any age. The normative database includes participants from age 6 to age 75+. Healthcare providers have used Creyos Health with children ages 6 and up, as well as older individuals. Patients are always compared to a population that is in the same age range, so that normal fluctuations due to age are accounted for when interpreting results.
Can Creyos Health enable tele-rehabiltion virtual care by sending assessments remotely?
Creyos Health was built from the ground up as a web-based platform that can be accessed by any patient from any location. Built-in features allow you to instantly send an assessment to a patient by email, or set up an email assessment schedule to automate remote testing. You may also generate URLs to copy into your own email system. Interactive tutorials and other instructions ensure that patients can complete tasks without supervision, and a validity indicator highlights any potentially invalid results. See also: Five Ways to Increase Compliance When Sending Cognitive Assessments by Email.
Are Creyos Health tasks valid and reliable?
Overall, Creyos Health has psychometric properties that meet or exceed the standards set by the traditional scales and tools that healthcare providers are used to. Various types of validity have been established through decades of scientific research and clinical usage, and the Creyos Health tasks are direct descendents of some of the most trusted traditional neuropsychological tests available. Reliability is strong for a short test of cognition—the tasks themselves have test-retest reliabilities in the acceptable to excellent range (see Hampshire et al., 2012), and features such as customizable email instructions and interactive tutorials further increase reliability in the healthcare context supported by Creyos Health.
Psychiatrists
Can Creyos Health diagnose psychiatric disorders?
Creyos Health's cognitive task battery is designed to be an assessment, rather than a diagnostic tool. The objective data on how a patient compares with an age-matched population may assist in the diagnosis of disorders with a cognitive component, and built-in self-report questionnaires can assist in determining mental health disorder symptoms with automated scoring that highlights established cutoff scores. However, Creyos Health should be used in conjunction with other information and clinical judgement to reach conclusions regarding an individual’s health. Ultimately, Creyos Health does not replace the judgement of a qualified provider.
Can patients take Creyos Health assessments multiple times?
Creyos Health tasks are randomly generated and adapt to the patient’s performance in real time. These features make them appropriate for assessing patients multiple times, as answers cannot be prepared for or memorized, and practice effects are minimal. Many psychiatrists use Creyos Health to assess patients regularly over the course of multiple months or years.
Who are patients being compared to in percentile scores?
Each score on the Creyos Health report is based on a comparison with a population of the same age range and gender as the patient. The population database was collected in the course of several large-scale worldwide studies, such as the Fractionating Human Intelligence paper published in Neuron. Participants in the database were not screened for any particular disorders, so it is designed to be representative of the entire population—not only healthy control participants.
Can Creyos Health be used with pediatric or geriatric populations?
Creyos Health can assess cognition in patients of nearly any age. The normative database includes participants from age 6 to age 75+. Healthcare providers have used Creyos Health with children ages 6 and up, as well as older individuals. Patients are always compared to a population that is in the same age range, so that normal fluctuations due to age are accounted for when interpreting results.
Which Creyos Health tasks are most closely related with anxiety?
Anxiety is known to affect cognition. In two separate sets of Creyos task data—one with 44,600 subjects (Hampshire et al., 2012) and one with 10,800 subjects (Wild et al., 2018)—researchers found a relationship between anxiety and short-term memory. Using the four tests of memory, a composite score was created and scores were significantly worse in individuals who reported regularly suffering from anxiety. Thus, Monkey Ladder, Paired Associates, Spatial Span, and Token Search may be particularly impaired in individuals suffering from anxiety and a focus when treating individuals with anxiety. However, other tasks may be related with anxiety as well in particular populations and individuals.
Which Creyos Health tasks are most closely related with depression?
Depression is closely linked with cognition, and a variety of CBS task scores may be related with the severity of depression, depending on the population and the individual’s symptoms. As an example, Desai et al. (2020) found that depressive symptoms (measured by the PHQ-9) were correlated with Digit Span, Grammatical Reasoning, Paired Associates, and Token Search task scores, and also predicted future decline in these tasks. Additional cognitive areas have been associated with depression in the scientific literature, so the particular relationships will depend on the population you treat, as well as the individual’s particular situation.
Can Creyos Health assessments be sent by email as part of a telepsychiatry program?
Creyos Health was built from the ground up as a web-based platform that can be accessed by any patient from any location. Built-in features allow you to instantly send an assessment to a patient by email, or set up an email assessment schedule to automate remote testing. You may also generate URLs to copy into your own email system. Interactive tutorials and other instructions ensure that patients can complete tasks without supervision, and a validity indicator highlights any potentially invalid results. See also: Five Ways to Increase Compliance When Sending Cognitive Assessments by Email.
Are Creyos Health tasks valid and reliable?
Overall, Creyos Health has psychometric properties that meet or exceed the standards set by the traditional scales and tools that psychiatrists use. Various types of validity have been established through decades of scientific research and clinical usage, and the Creyos Health tasks are direct descendents of some of the most trusted traditional neuropsychological tests available. Reliability is strong for a short test of cognition—the tasks themselves have test-retest reliabilities in the acceptable to excellent range (see Hampshire et al., 2012), and features such as customizable email instructions and interactive tutorials further increase reliability in the healthcare context supported by Creyos Health.