A scientifically-validated online cognitive assessment used by psychiatrists to accurately measure brain function

Easily assess and monitor potential cognitive deficits resulting from psychiatric disorders,
allowing you to improve patient care and drive revenue. Whether you run a solo or
multi-clinic psychiatry practice, CBS Health is for you—book a demo to learn more.

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Cognition is Closely Linked With Mental Health

Mental, emotional, and behavioural disorders have cognitive consequences. From complaints of brain fog to scientifically-proven deficits, a loss of cognitive clarity can make a patient’s recovery even more difficult, leading to a downward spiral.

CBS Health quantifies a patient’s brain health, allowing psychiatrists to identify deficits associated with psychiatric disorders, guide treatment decisions, and track recovery as care progresses.

For example, individuals who suffer from anxiety tend to score lower in CBS Health short-term memory tasks, like Spatial Span and Paired Associates. Depression can have far-reaching effects on cognition, resulting in impairments that have real-life consequences, such as the planning abilities measured by the Spatial Planning task.

Therapy and medication that treat mental health conditions may help recover cognitive function as well—that is why it is crucial for psychiatrists to measure cognition to validate symptoms, plan treatments, and measure key outcomes that affect quality of life. CBS Health helps you accomplish these goals, with patients of any age, whether you see them in person or are offering psychiatric services via telehealth.

Why Psychiatrists Use CBS Health to Objectively
Measure Cognitive Function

Improve Patient Care

Aid in Diagnosis and Validate Patient Symptoms

Collect quantified and objective measures of cognitive performance to complement other assessments and aid in the diagnosis of mental disorders, such as depression, anxiety, ADHD and more. Put numbers to patients’ subjective symptoms by quickly measuring the cognitive domains key to their quality of life, such as memory, reasoning, verbal ability, and concentration.
Track the Impact of Medication, Therapy, and Other Treatments

Validate that interventions such as medication, psychotherapy and other treatments are having the desired effects, or detect early signs of decline in impaired or aging populations to get ahead of the problem. Complement existing testing to gain a complete and confident picture of a patient’s brain health over time.
Measure Mental Health Alongside Cognition

Mental health and cognitive performance are closely linked. Easily collect self-report questionnaire data, like the PHQ-9, GAD-7, and ASRS, alongside cognition to gain data on how they change together. Get a baseline to assist in diagnosis, then measure the full impact of treatments and show patients progress on easy-to-read reports.

Increase Convenience and Save Valuable Time

Modernize Your Practice and Enable Telepsychiatry

Send assessments by email to save in-clinic time, without sacrificing validity—CBS Health cognitive tasks are based on decades of scientific research, and there are minimal differences between in-person and remotely-administered assessments.
Reduce Manual Effort

Clinicians and administrative staff save time and effort by automating tasks, such as sending regular scheduled assessments, maintaining and storing data, scoring and interpreting results, and finding patient reports.
Get Faster Insights

Each cognitive task takes only a few minutes, and reports comparing your patient’s performance to a normative database are generated immediately. Reports are powerful, yet easy to understand, and can be shared with patients directly.

Increase Your Psychiatry Practice’s Revenue

Incorporate Reimbursable Assessments

The administration and interpretation of assessments is covered by insurance providers, such as Medicare, Medicaid, Blue Cross, Aetna, United, and others, subject to the terms of the CBS Health Reimbursement Guide.

Reimbursable under CPT codes related to neuropsychological assessments by many insurance providers.
Improve psychiatric treatment with no additional cost to the patient and potential revenue generation for the practice.

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Add New Services

Use CBS Health to add services that benefit patients. Some psychiatrists receive payment directly for services such as:

Preventive services, such as yearly check-ins that assess cognition and mental health.
Telemental health services, such as listing your services in portals that connect patients from all over the country with psychiatrists, easily enabled with CBS Health's remote assessment capabilities.

Reduce Unnecessary Spending

Cognitive data from CBS Health can be gained quickly and efficiently, saving time and money in areas such as:

Screening to determine the need for additional, costly tests, such as full neuropsychological batteries or genetic testing. With more data at your disposal, you can stop spending time and money on dead ends.
Automated cognitive assessments can reduce spending on areas related to keeping in touch with patients, such as staff hours devoted to regular contact with long-term patients.

CBS Health Makes it Easy for Psychiatrists
to Assess Cognition

Psychiatric disorders often lead to cognitive deficits. CBS Health allows psychiatrists to quantify those deficits and track recovery. Any patient with acute, chronic, or evolving impairment in cognition—or at risk for such impairments—can benefit from regular assessment of cognitive function.

Insightful Patient Reports in Less Than 15 Minutes

Reports are powerful, yet simple and easy to read, allowing you to instantly share results with your patient without extra modifications or explanations.

A customized assessment can take 15 minutes or less, and results are generated instantly—no manual scoring required.

Stay on top of important trends in your patient’s cognition over time.

Review your patients percentile rank relative to others of the same age group (ages 6+) and gender using our proprietary normative database, made up of more than 75,000 individuals.

Validity and meaningful change indicators help interpret results and explain them to your patient.

Link results with subjective patient difficulties to turn “brain fog” into specific deficits that can be discussed and measured.

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Improve Patient Treatment With a Low-Pressure, Engaging, Gamified Assessment Experience

Patients can be intimidated by rigid assessments—especially if they are already suffering from anxiety or other mental health difficulties. CBS Health assessments are designed to ease patients into the tasks with a quick, game-like experience that removes the pressure.

Send links via email to allow your patients to complete assessments in the comfort of their own homes.

Start with self-guided interactive task tutorials that help ensure your patients quickly get up to speed on task instructions.

Easily customize assessments for specific patient groups—like shortening the battery, turning off sound, or adding practice rounds—to create the targeted patient experience you want.

Gather Objective and Subjective Brain Health Data With One Seamless Protocol

Mental health assessments, and tests of mental status, are valuable sources of information in a psychiatrist’s toolkit. However, many assessments are subjective, relying on self-report, or they are designed for a specific purpose, such as screening for severe impairment. CBS Health provides objective, continuous measures of cognitive performance that can be used to assess brain health in healthy patients, severely impaired patients, and everybody in between.

CBS Health also includes built-in self-report assessments and other questionnaires, like the PHQ-9 for depression, GAD-7 for anxiety, and ASRS for ADHD, to collect all types of data with one seamless protocol, view measures side by side, track changes over time, and determine how improvements in mental health lead to objective improvements in the areas of cognition that are key to quality of life.

Easy to Get Up and Running, Easy to Administer,
With No Special Hardware or Software Required

Cloud-based & secure, meeting or exceeding HIPAA industry standards.

Support for modern desktop browsers and tablets. Tasks can be completed using common inputs like touch, mouse, or trackpad devices.

Friendly one-on-one support to help you integrate CBS Health into your practice and make the most of its powerful features.

Resources for Psychiatrists

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CBS Health Task Selection Guide

CBS Health Reimbursement Guide

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Frequently Asked Questions

Can CBS Health diagnose psychiatric disorders?

CBS Health's cognitive task battery is designed to be an assessment, rather than a diagnostic tool. The objective data on how a patient compares with an age-matched population may assist in the diagnosis of disorders with a cognitive component, and built-in self-report questionnaires can assist in determining mental health disorder symptoms with automated scoring that highlights established cutoff scores. However, CBS Health should be used in conjunction with other information and clinical judgement to reach conclusions regarding an individual’s health. Ultimately, CBS Health does not replace the judgement of a qualified provider.

Can patients take CBS Health assessments multiple times?

CBS Health tasks are randomly generated and adapt to the patient’s performance in real time. These features make them appropriate for assessing patients multiple times, as answers cannot be prepared for or memorized, and practice effects are minimal. Many psychiatrists use CBS Health to assess patients regularly over the course of multiple months or years.

Who are patients being compared to in percentile scores?

Each score on the CBS Health report is based on a comparison with a population of the same age range and gender as the patient. The population database was collected in the course of several large-scale worldwide studies, such as the Fractionating Human Intelligence paper published in Neuron. Participants in the database were not screened for any particular disorders, so it is designed to be representative of the entire population—not only healthy control participants.

Can CBS Health be used with pediatric or geriatric populations?

CBS Health can assess cognition in patients of nearly any age. The normative database includes participants from age 6 to age 75+. Healthcare providers have used CBS Health with children ages 6 and up, as well as older individuals. Patients are always compared to a population that is in the same age range, so that normal fluctuations due to age are accounted for when interpreting results.

Which CBS Health tasks are most closely related with anxiety?

Anxiety is known to affect cognition. In two separate sets of CBS task data—one with 44,600 subjects (Hampshire et al., 2012) and one with 10,800 subjects (Wild et al., 2018)—researchers found a relationship between anxiety and short-term memory. Using the four tests of memory, a composite score was created and scores were significantly worse in individuals who reported regularly suffering from anxiety. Thus, Monkey Ladder, Paired Associates, Spatial Span, and Token Search may be particularly impaired in individuals suffering from anxiety and a focus when treating individuals with anxiety. However, other tasks may be related with anxiety as well in particular populations and individuals.

Which CBS Health tasks are most closely related with depression?

Depression is closely linked with cognition, and a variety of CBS task scores may be related with the severity of depression, depending on the population and the individual’s symptoms. As an example, Desai et al. (2020) found that depressive symptoms (measured by the PHQ-9) were correlated with Digit Span, Grammatical Reasoning, Paired Associates, and Token Search task scores, and also predicted future decline in these tasks. Additional cognitive areas have been associated with depression in the scientific literature, so the particular relationships will depend on the population you treat, as well as the individual’s particular situation.

Can CBS Health assessments be sent by email as part of a telepsychiatry program?

CBS Health was built from the ground up as a web-based platform that can be accessed by any patient from any location. Built-in features allow you to instantly send an assessment to a patient by email, or set up an email assessment schedule to automate remote testing. You may also generate URLs to copy into your own email system. Interactive tutorials and other instructions ensure that patients can complete tasks without supervision, and a validity indicator highlights any potentially invalid results. See also: Five Ways to Increase Compliance When Sending Cognitive Assessments by Email.

Are CBS Health tasks valid and reliable?

Overall, CBS Health has psychometric properties that meet or exceed the standards set by the traditional scales and tools that psychiatrists use. Various types of validity have been established through decades of scientific research and clinical usage, and the CBS Health tasks are direct descendents of some of the most trusted traditional neuropsychological tests available. Reliability is strong for a short test of cognition—the tasks themselves have test-retest reliabilities in the acceptable to excellent range (see Hampshire et al., 2012), and features such as customizable email instructions and interactive tutorials further increase reliability in the healthcare context supported by CBS Health.

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