More and more often modern neuropsychological methods are used in diagnosing and monitoring of dementia disorders. Computer tools seem to be especially interesting for a number of reasons: they are reliable and diagnostically accurate and also offer a high level of objectivity of results. While using them, there is no place for investigators’ subjectivity – a problem often occurring when using traditional methods, making them useless. Another advantage of computer diagnostic tools is the quickness of the tests and obtaining the results. One of such methods is the Vienna Test System. The following neuropsychological tests are especially interesting in this set of tests: 1. CORSI – The Attention Span Test. It tests the operative memory span, the visual-spatial operative memory as well as the visual-spatial learning processes. 2. The Reaction Test (the diagnostic version of drugs’ influence on clinical patients’ attention processes). Variables tested: attention continuity, reaction time, motoric time, attention disorders. 3. SIGNAL – The Signal Detection Test. Module: S1: the diagnosis of attention processes’ selectivity in clinical patients. Variables tested: selective attention function, selective attention disturbances, visual ability of noticing the partiality of perception, ability weakening in one half of the perception field. This report presents the experience gained in this field in the practice of the Dysmensia Clinic at the Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Clinic of the Silesian Medical University in Katowice, Poland. It also compares our results with the popular MMSE test.
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