Paced Auditory Serial Addition Test

<h2 id="multiple-sclerosis">Multiple sclerosis</h2>
<p>It has become widely used in the testing of patients with <a href="/facts/Multiple_sclerosis/vghXl0IQ">multiple sclerosis</a> as patients with this disease frequently have an impaired performance on this test. The PASAT was included in the Multiple Sclerosis Functional Composite <a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> as a cognitive measure. However, the use of the PASAT in <a href="/facts/Clinical_trial/q8LMr832">clinical trials</a> in MS it has shown to be problematic as there are significant practice effects over repeated measures; typically the effect of treatment is reflected by a larger improvement on the test compared to the <a href="/facts/Experimental_control/FXHfQwHx">control group</a>.
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<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>Spreen O., Strauss E.: A Compendium of Neuropsychological Tests; ²1998; New York, Oxford University press <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>Gronwall DM. Paced auditory serial-addition task: a measure of recovery from concussion. Perceptual and Motor Skills. 1977 Apr;44(2):367–373 <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>Fischer S. et al. (2001) Multiple Sclerosis Functional Composite, New York; The National Multiple Sclerosis Society http://pasat.us/PDF/MSFC_Manual.pdf seen Oct 26, 2010 <a href="http://pasat.us/PDF/MSFC_Manual.pdf" target="_blank">http://pasat.us/PDF/MSFC_Manual.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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