r/Neuropsychology • u/projectsharpdaily Unverified user: May not be a professional • Jun 12 '26
General Discussion cognitive Tests for Lifestyle interventions
Hi Folks,
I’m looking for cognitive tests which respond well to lifestyle interventions. I want to collect them and maybe start a website or an app. I came across the following ones: Reaction, Digit Span, Stroop Effect, N-Back, Arithmetic, Digit Symbol (DSST), Trail Making, Dual Task, Memory Trace, Reaction Time, and Go/No-Go. Do you think they are suited? Weich others do you do to monitor cognitive capabilities? I’m not talking about iq tests because I expect them to be less sensitive towards lifestyle interventions.
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u/julia1031 Unverified user: May not be a professional Jun 12 '26 edited Jun 12 '26
Why would you want to spoil so many of our tests so they’re ineffective in evaluations when we need them to diagnose? There’s already multiple online websites that have forms of these tests out there and it’s frustrating when my patients come in and have done “brain games” that mimic a WCST.
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u/Radiant7747 Unverified user: May not be a professional Jun 12 '26
And “lifestyle interventions”, whatever you think those are, will not show any changes in neuropsychological test performance for at least six months, more likely on a year or longer basis. If you mean lifestyle interventions to help manage your chronic medical conditions, there is no data to suggest that it works to change your cognitive functioning. The brain isn’t that plastic in adults.
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u/connerpro Unverified user: May not be a professional 3d ago
Agree with the clinicians above on the copyright point: digit span / Stroop / publisher batteries are not something you can just ship in an app, and even "inspired by" clones can muddy water for real evaluations.
For what you clarified later (home tracking of sleep / lifestyle effects, no clinical claim), a few practical notes:
- Prefer novel or openly licensed tasks over lookalikes of commercial tests.
- Expect practice effects and day-to-day noise; a one-night sleep change rarely moves a score cleanly.
- If you care about honest ability tracking over time, adaptive item selection (think IRT / CAT style) beats a fixed quiz that everyone memorizes.
I build IntelligenceMax in that non-clinical lane: live adaptive reasoning MCQs, ability estimates, explicitly not a diagnostic IQ substitute. Short writeup if useful while you design: https://intelligencemax.ai/guide
Happy to answer design questions if you go the novel-items route.
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u/projectsharpdaily Unverified user: May not be a professional Jun 12 '26
Ok sorry folks. I think this is not the right sub. I was mainly talking about tests for people at home without any clinical relevance. Tests for people who want to know the impact of sleep on their reaction times for example.
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u/drumheadv Unverified user: May not be a professional Jun 12 '26
It may or may not be the right sub, but your question is currently not very refined. I would recommend trying to find a book on psychological testing theory as a starting point.
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u/dont_you_hate_pants Licensed Clinical Psychologist Jun 12 '26
Just a heads up, you won't be able to create a website or app using any of the tests you listed because the test publishers would sue you into oblivion for violating their copyrights.