State in brief about the Comprehensive neuropsychology

Comprehensive neuropsychology testing needs a combination of Context related ideometric and quantitative psychometric approaches. Whereas the patient is undergoing the test the neuropsychologists must observe the factors which might be contribute to the failure of the patient in performance of a given task. Examples of such factors contain unfamiliarity with timed tests, inability to pay attention for the required length of time, inability to modulate the mental effort required by a task, poor motivation, poor insight, premorbid characteristics such as impulsivity, unwillingness to try out new things, etc. Another set of factors that affects patients level of functioning is deficits in specific areas, which can hamper the patients' performance in a specific test.