Patent ID: 7942828

Claim:
A method for diagnosing a psychological, neurological, or behavioral disorder in a subject, said method comprising: (a) providing from said subject scoring data that has been collected by (i) presenting to said subject a sequence comprising target and nontarget stimuli during a continuous testing period; and (ii) scoring the response of said subject on the number of targets responded to and the number of nontargets responded to; (b) on the basis of said scoring data, (i) dividing said sequence into three or more epochs and classifying the attentional state of said subject during each epoch, (ii) calculating the number of shifts in the attentional state of said subject during said continuous testing period, (iii) identifying epochs in which said subject is in an impulsive attentional state, and (iv) calculating the amount of time said subject is in an impulsive attentional state during said continuous testing period; and (c) on the basis of the results of step (b), diagnosing said subject.