Neuropsychological assessment: report structure and downloadable template

A neuropsychological assessment is a structured evaluation of cognitive functions (and behaviour) that results in a written report and a feedback session. It is one of the longest documents to write in the profession.

This page details the process, the functions evaluated, the reference tests, and the structure of the report, and offers a ready-to-use template to download.

The three-step process

Depending on the context, the assessment may be for diagnostic purposes (e.g., memory clinic), follow-up, as part of care management, research, or expert legal/medical assessment.

Evaluated functions and reference tests

A test is never "pure": it always involves multiple processes, which the interpretation takes into account. The main domains:

• Overall intellectual functioning: WAIS-IV (adult), WISC-V (child), Raven's matrices.
• Memory: verbal and visual, short- and medium-term.
• Attention and executive functions: flexibility, inhibition, planning, visual and auditory attention.
• Instrumental functions: language, praxia, gnosia.
• Global cognitive screening: MMSE, MoCA.

Structure of a neuropsychological assessment report

1. Identification and reason for referral. Patient, date, referring clinician if any, context, and reason for the request.
2. Clinical history. Background, history of the disorders, daily repercussions, medical, psychological, academic, or professional context.
3. Behaviour during testing. Qualitative observations (cooperation, fatigability, strategies, performance anxiety).
4. Results by cognitive domain. Intellectual functioning, memory, attention and executive functions, instrumental functions, quantitative and qualitative.
5. Synthesis. Impaired and preserved abilities, correlation with clinical history, hypotheses.
6. Conclusion. Response to the initial request, diagnostic elements where applicable.
7. Recommendations. Cognitive remediation, academic or professional accommodations, referrals, letter to the physician or institution.

The feedback session

The oral feedback session generally takes place two to three weeks after the testing; it can be included in a synthesis meeting with the physician. For children, it is conducted in the presence of the parents. A complete written report (analysis, clinical interpretations, recommendations) is provided on this occasion.

Reimbursement: what you need to know

Neuropsychological assessments conducted in private practice are generally not covered by Assurance Maladie. They can be paid for by the patient or family, and are sometimes partially reimbursed by certain supplementary health insurance providers (mutuelles) or through specific schemes depending on the situation.

Saving time on writing

Writing a neuropsychological report is time-consuming. Start with a fixed template, standardise your synthesis and recommendation phrasing, and dictate your observations immediately after testing.

This is exactly what Delta does: you capture your observations live or via post-testing dictation, and the tool generates a structured report based on your template, with a longitudinal patient memory that reuses the patient history from one assessment to another (invaluable for comparing a follow-up assessment to the initial one). HDS-certified hosting, GDPR compliant.

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