March 20, 2002

MEMORY TESTING CORPORATION
RELEASES VERSION 5.0
OF THE
BROCKWAY MEMORY ASSESSMENT BATTERY FOR WINDOWS
(FOR WIN 95,98, 2000, NT, AND XP)

DAVIDSON, NC March 20, 2002 -- Neuropsychologists, psychologists, neurologists, and healthcare professionals now have a dynamic new Memory Battery to assess memory functions which will increase quality of patient assessment and care thanks to a major innovative conversion of the Brockway Memory Assessment Battery. Written in Java, the Memory Assessment Battery v5.0 now runs on any PC platform, including laptops, desktops, workstations, using Windows (95, 98, 2000, NT, or XP) or Mac OS 10.1 operating systems.

BMAB 5.0 is comprised of 23 separate memory tests, and is a fully computerized Battery which uses employs randomization principles to counteract well know learning effects. It contains automatic logs which aid in accurate scoring. Originally, it was normed on 687 individuals and patients, stratefied for age and gender.

The BMAB 5.0 has taken more than two years to convert and represents a major corporate commitment to providing accurate and comprehensive memory assessment to the most people and that included the Windows based platforms. The BMAB 5.0 converstion was produced by team effort, led by Project Director, Min Wei, said John P. Brockway, Ph.D., president and CEO of Memory Testing Corporation (MTC) of Davidson, NC. The 25+ year educator, experimental psychologist and clinical researcher, lecturer and author is pleased and proud to deliver the product to the psychological, neuropsychological, neurologist, and health care community.

According to Dr. Brockway, the BMAB produces a profile of 14 differenct categories of memory, which is a far broader assessment than any other Battery. It makes comparisons with previous performance easy and reliable, using a variety of computerized techniques of randomization and log creation.

"'Function' is key," Dr. Brockway says. "Professionals must attend to these functional cognitive areas particularly memory areas, if at all possible, to assess the performances which influence the patient's or person's quality of life. Being able to remember not only things that we have seen, but also remember what people say to us, and to remember the accurate gist of what people say is vital to everyday life."

"Since our brains are as individual as fingerprints, our individual memory activity levels changes over time, and so does the status of different mental activities. The exact underpinnings where these processes occur appear to contribute to memory performance, which has many implications for our quality and competence."

The benefits of accurate memory assessment are enormous because each assessment is patient-and-time-specific. Compared to existing assessment techniques, the BMAB controls for learning effects, testor bias, site bias and scoring bias. It is quicker to give in a variety of locations and the BMAB may be given repeatedly without additional interaction or learning effects.

In the near future, several more of these memory testing modules will be assessed using fMRI and will allow better prediction of surgical outcome for epilepsy, tumor and ultimately stroke patients. Presently, four of the modules have been testikng using fMRI. Medical centers that support these clinical services will need to provide both accurate and reliable assessment.

The mission of Memory Testing Corporation is to provide clinics, medical centers, hospitals, and neuropsycholgists with the expertise and solutions to move complex memory assessment into the 21st century.

Dr. Brockway, working closely with neurologists and neurosurgeons, and having conducted hospital-based research, saw the possibility of using human memory, his specialty, and its computerization as widely used testing tools.

Dr. Brockway underscores the importance of nonsurgical memory testing with fMRI. "Suppose a neurosurgeon hopes to free a patient from epileptic seizures by removing a tumor. Previously, pinpointing the exact location of speech, memory and motor skills that lie next to the diseased site required brain surgery to implant electrodes. A test that can be given in a hospital or clinical room, that can also be used inside a MRI scanner, and moved into the oeprating room as well, has high merit. The BMAB is such a Memory Batter.

"The beauty of the BMAB is its ability to gather even better information prior to surgery and to make available the same testing skills and modules during surgery for added accuracy in preserving memory functions.

Memory Testing Corporation also provides this fully computerized neuropsychological Memory Test Battery which is used to evaluate twenty-three different kinds of human memory problems on Macintosh platforms using Mac OS X. MTC provides this new software for extensive preoperative testing for neurological evaluation of abnormal brain conditions in suspected memory impairment in the diseased, the traumatized or especially, in the elderly.

For details, visit www.memorytesting.com/bmaba.htm or contact Dr. Brockway at jpb@memorytesting.com

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