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measure Mental Rotations Test (MRT)
Study: NTR Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Behavioral/cognitive task Available measurements: Young Netherlands Twin Register YE_ATTEF3In the Mental Rotations Test (MRT) participants are asked to compare two-dimensional drawings and three- dimensional geometric figures. This test assesses spatial processing.Created March 28, 2023 • Updated April 4, 2023 -
measure Reading Span Task (RST)
Study: NTR Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Behavioral/cognitive task Available measurements: Young Netherlands Twin Register YE_ATTEF3The reading span task (RST) is a memory span. The original RST required participants to read series of unconnected sentences aloud and to remember the final word of each sentence of a series (grouped according to the total number of sentences). With each sentence presented on a card, participants were cued to recall the memorized end-of-sentence words in...Created March 28, 2023 • Updated April 4, 2023 -
measure VU University Ambulatory Monitoring System (VU-AMS)
Study: NTR Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Biological sample/measurement Available measurements: Young Netherlands Twin Register YE_FITNSS YE_ATTEF3 YE_COG18The VU University Ambulatory Monitoring System (VU-AMS) enables non-invasive ambulatory measurement of the autonomic nervous system for research purposes and can be used to measure: Heart Rate/Inter beat Interval (IBI), Heart Rate Variability (SDNN, RMSSD, IBI power spectrum: HF, LF), Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia (RSA), Pre-Ejection Period (PEP), Left...Created March 28, 2023 • Updated April 4, 2023 -
measure Zygosity (DNA)
Study: NTR Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Biological sample/measurement Available measurements: Young Netherlands Twin Register YS_3 YS_5 YS_7 YS_10 YS_12 YS_DHBQ14 YS_DHBQ16 YC_ACTIONBB1_1 YC_ACTIONBB1_2 YC_ACTIONBB2 YC_ACTIONBB3 YC_BS1 YC_BS2 YC_BS3 YC_DSC YE_FITNSS YE_ATTEF1 YE_ATTEF2 YE_ATTEF3 YC_ADHMRI YE_COG18 YS_TRIP1_2 YS_TRIP3 YS_TRIP4 YS_TRIP5 YS_TRIP7 YS_TRIP10 YS_TRIP12Zygosity typing based on micro-satellite markers, single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP), or variable number (short) tandem repeats (VNTRs).Created March 28, 2023 • Updated April 4, 2023 -
measure Raven's Progressive Matrices Test (RPM)
Study: NTR Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Behavioral/cognitive task Available measurements: Young Netherlands Twin Register YC_BS1 YC_BS2 YE_ATTEF3Raven's Progressive Matrices (often referred to simply as Raven's Matrices or RPM) is a non-verbal test used to measure general intelligence and abstract reasoning. It is one of the most common tests administered to both groups and individuals ranging from 5-years-olds to the elderly. It consists of 60 multiple choice questions, listed in order of...Created March 28, 2023 • Updated April 4, 2023 -
measure CITO score
Study: NTR Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Behavioral/cognitive task Available measurements: Young Netherlands Twin Register YS_TRF5 YS_TRF7 YS_TRF10 YS_12 YS_TRF12 YS_DHBQP YS_DHBQ14 YS_DHBQ16 YS_DHBQ18 YC_BS1 YC_BS2 YE_ATTEF2 YS_CITO YS_DT YS_TRIP12The CITO-test is a standardized test for educational achievement that is administered in the final grade (when children are 11 or 12 years old) of elementary school. The CITO-test consists of multiple choice items in 4 different educational skills, namely Arithmetic, Language, Study Skills, and Science and Social Studies. All scores on the scales are...Created March 28, 2023 • Updated April 4, 2023 -
measure Heart beat perception
Study: NTR Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Behavioral/cognitive task Available measurements: Young Netherlands Twin Register YE_ATTEF3Participants were asked to judge their own heart rate by introspective visceral awareness, i.e. without palpitating the arterial pulse signal at wrist or neck. They judged their mean heart rate per minute over three short periods (25, 35 and 45 seconds).Created March 28, 2023 • Updated April 4, 2023 -
measure Blood pressure
Study: NTR Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Biological sample/measurement Available measurements: Young Netherlands Twin Register YC_BS3 YE_FITNSS YE_ATTEF3 YE_COG18Blood pressure is the force of blood pushing against the walls of arteries as the heart pumps blood around the body. Systolic pressure is the pressure when the heart contracts and pushes blood out and diastolic pressure is the pressure when the heart relaxes and fills with blood. In adults the systolic pressure normally ranges between 80 and 120 and the...Created March 28, 2023 • Updated April 4, 2023 -
measure Buccal swab
Study: NTR Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Biological sample/measurement Available measurements: Young Netherlands Twin Register YC_ACTIONBB1_1 YC_ACTIONBB1_2 YC_ACTIONBB2 YC_ACTIONBB3 YC_BS1 YC_BS2 YC_BS3 YC_DSC YE_FITNSS YE_ATTEF1 YE_ATTEF2 YE_ATTEF3 YC_ADHMRI YE_COG18Cheek swabs were obtained by rubbing buds along the inside of the mouth to obtain buccal cell scrapings.Created March 28, 2023 • Updated April 4, 2023 -
measure Verbal Fluency Test
Study: TRAILS Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Behavioral/cognitive task Available measurements: Population cohort T4The Verbal Fluency Test assesses how many words that belong to the same predetermined category participants can produce in a given time (usually 60 seconds). This category can be semantic, specified objects such as animals or fruits, or phonological, words beginning with a specified letter such as p.Created March 28, 2023 • Updated March 28, 2023 -
measure Rey’s Verbal Learning Test
Study: TRAILS Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Behavioral/cognitive task Available measurements: Population cohort T4The Rey’s Auditory Verbal Learning Task (AVLT) measures short and long term verbal memory. A list of 15 unrelated, concrete nouns is presented with a 1 second interval on an audio CD over five learning trials. After each presentation, participants have to name as many of the presented words as possible. Next, after a delay interval of 20–30 minutes, and...Created March 28, 2023 • Updated March 28, 2023 -
measure Approach Avoidance Test (AAT)
Study: TRAILS Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Behavioral/cognitive task Available measurements: Population cohort T4Validated assessment of implicit action tendencies towards emotional facial expressions. The participants have to push (approach) or pull (avoid) a joystick when presented with emotional facial expressions. Includes male and female faces and neutral, happy, angry, and disgusted facial expressions.Created March 28, 2023 • Updated March 28, 2023 -
measure Self-Ordered Pointing Task (SOPT)
Study: TRAILS Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Behavioral/cognitive task Available measurements: Population cohort T4Validated assessment of working memory. The participants are presented with a set of pictures and instructed to select a different picture until all of the pictures have been selected once. Every time that participants select a picture the order of all pictures is completely changed and the participants cannot select the same location twice in a row. The...Created March 28, 2023 • Updated March 28, 2023 -
measure Waist and hip circumference
Study: TRAILS Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Anthropometrics/Body measures Available measurements: Population cohort T3 T4 T5
Clinical cohort T3 T4 T5Assessment of waist and hip circumference using a tape measure.Created March 28, 2023 • Updated March 28, 2023 -
measure Amsterdam Neuropsychological Tasks (ANT)
Study: TRAILS Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Behavioral/cognitive task Available measurements: Population cohort T1 T4
Clinical cohort T1 T4The Amsterdam Neuropsychological Tasks (ANT) are computerized executive functioning tasks. The ANTs measure a diverse range of executive functions, including attention, working memory, and inhibition.Created March 28, 2023 • Updated March 28, 2023 -
measure Length and weight
Study: TRAILS Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Anthropometrics/Body measures Available measurements: Population cohort T1 T2 T3 T4 T5 T6 T7
Clinical cohort T1 T2 T3 T4 T5 T6Assessment of length and weight using a stadiometer and personal scale.Created March 28, 2023 • Updated March 28, 2023 -
measure Skinfold thickness
Study: TRAILS Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Biological sample/measurement Available measurements: Population cohort T1 T3 T4
Clinical cohort T1 T3 T4Assessment of body fat. Skinfold thickness can noninvasively and reliably be measured at various sites of the body using a skinfold caliper. Based on measurements at multiple sites of the body, the total body fat and contribution of fat to the body mass can be estimated.Created March 28, 2023 • Updated March 28, 2023 -
measure Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS)
Study: TRAILS Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Behavioral/cognitive task Available measurements: Population cohort T4The Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) is an IQ test designed to measure intelligence and cognitive ability in adults and older adolescents. Most versions contain sub tests that represent the following components of intelligence: Verbal Comprehension Index (VCI), Perceptual Reasoning Index (PRI), Working Memory Index (WMI), Processing Speed Index...Created March 28, 2023 • Updated March 28, 2023 -
measure Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure Test
Study: TRAILS Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Behavioral/cognitive task Available measurements: Population cohort T4Validated assessment of spatial visualization and visuospatial memory. The participants are instructed to copy a complex geometric figure both directly and from memory after a twenty minute delay.Created March 28, 2023 • Updated March 28, 2023