[The Halstead-Reitan Neuropsychological Battery. Initial experience with its use in Czechoslovakia]

The authors present information on the basic, classical neuropsychological battery and its Czech application in adults (15 years and older). Its principles are adopted also by more recent partial methods. The validity of new methods is usually assessed by comparison with the former method. Its position in neuropsychology can be compared with that of Wechsler's intelligence scales in the area of assessment of intelligence. The author describes 11 original tests which form the battery. Although individual tests are used also separately, it is better not to deprive oneself of the comprehensive evaluation of cerebral functions and psychic consequences of neurological disease or damage. The authors assembled encouraging experience when examining the first 72 Czech patients--ambulatory psychiatric patients (n = 12), patients rated for invalidity (n = 20), epileptic patients (n = 33) and patients from the clinic for occupational diseases (n = 7).