HIMS - Cognitive Test

[Vincent_P]

Hello everyone I am a student pilot a year into the HIMS program. I am having trouble scoring high enough in the memory category from my neuropsychologist to write the report. The process has already been very expensive and now they want me to see a specialist designed to help pilots beat the cog test. Does anyone know of any other methods used specifically on the cog test to help improve "immediate and post visual and verbal memory". From what I remember the test was a list of 25 words from 4 categories with one outlier the list is read 5 times after each time you are to recall as many as possible. after the 5th time you are read a new list of words and the process continues but then you switch exercises approximately 25-40 mins later you are asked the list again and after having to focus on the new task remember the word count becomes difficult. I tried to go over the list every 5 mins in my head but the task in front of me needed focus.

Any support, news, experiences, or words of wisdom are appreciated.

Vincent

 

[bbchien]

Vince, you apparently have been offered "cognitive rehab". That happens when you have narrow deficits and adequate processor speed- to divert computing resources to the weak areas. In the early days of computers with limited RAM, we would substitute writing to the hard drive (Cache substitution) to supplant that function. It's actually a good analogy.

if your scores are weak on both processing speed and you have weakness in many areas of cognitive function, this is inadvisable.

Specific success depends on the Neurocognitive specialist's blunt assessment of the tools you have.

Also complicating- the longer you were into prohibited substances (or to the extent that an affective disorder isn't controlled...can't tel which it is from "HIMS") the longer it may take to recover. Of course, if you were the bored kid who sat in the back of geometry class and got D's....it's "recover relative to what".

When you eventually retest, you need to NOT retest as the earliest possible time, but a a most optimal time, or you will be taking multiple trips to the neuropscyhologist (and burning $$s).

So the first thing you need to do is have a frank discussion with the HIMS AME or the Neuropsychologist as to what really are your chances....