If you or your teen has been struggling with focus, forgetfulness, organization, impulsivity, or completing everyday tasks, you may have wondered:
Could this be ADHD?
Getting a clearer answer can be an important first step.
Bubblegum and Duct Tape Psychiatry now offers Creyos ADHD testing for adolescents ages 12 and older and adults at our Psychiatry and Therapy Clinic in Sacramento.
Creyos adds objective cognitive performance data to the ADHD evaluation process, helping providers better understand areas such as attention, working memory, planning, and response inhibition. Combined with clinical evaluation and behavioral information, this can provide a more complete picture of what’s happening—and what support may be appropriate.
📍 Sacramento Office:
180 Promenade Circle, Suite 300
Sacramento, CA 95834
💡 What Is Creyos ADHD Testing?
Creyos is a digital cognitive assessment platform used by healthcare professionals to measure aspects of cognitive performance relevant to ADHD and other clinical concerns.
Instead of relying only on questions about symptoms, Creyos incorporates short, interactive cognitive tasks.
Its ADHD assessment protocol combines cognitive testing with behavioral questionnaires to provide clinicians with additional objective information that can be interpreted alongside a patient’s history, symptoms, and clinical evaluation.
Learn more about the Creyos ADHD Assessment Protocol↗.
At our Sacramento practice, Creyos ADHD testing is available for patients ages 12 and older, including adults.
🎯 Who Can Receive ADHD Testing?
Our Creyos ADHD testing is available for:
Adolescents Ages 12+
ADHD in teenagers may affect:
- School performance
- Homework completion
- Organization
- Following instructions
- Time management
- Concentration
- Impulse control
- Everyday responsibilities
Some teens with ADHD are noticeably hyperactive. Others may simply seem distracted, forgetful, overwhelmed, or chronically disorganized.
Adults
ADHD can continue into adulthood, and some people don’t recognize the possibility until later in life.
Adults may struggle with:
- Chronic procrastination
- Missed deadlines
- Forgetting appointments
- Losing important belongings
- Difficulty prioritizing
- Poor time management
- Trouble finishing projects
- Managing multiple responsibilities
An evaluation can help determine whether ADHD—or another factor—may be contributing to these difficulties.
🧠 You Don’t Have to Be Hyperactive to Have ADHD
One of the biggest misconceptions about ADHD is that it always involves obvious hyperactivity.
It doesn’t.
ADHD can involve predominantly inattentive symptoms, hyperactive-impulsive symptoms, or a combination of both.
Someone with less obvious hyperactivity might frequently:
- Daydream or zone out
- Forget instructions
- Lose belongings
- Become distracted easily
- Struggle to begin tasks
- Have difficulty finishing projects
- Miss deadlines
- Feel overwhelmed by organization
This quieter presentation can sometimes go unnoticed, particularly when someone has developed strategies to compensate for their difficulties.
Learn about ADHD from the National Institute of Mental Health↗.
⭐ What Does Creyos ADHD Testing Measure?
The Creyos ADHD protocol evaluates cognitive abilities relevant to ADHD assessment, including:
Attention
Attention allows you to focus on relevant information while filtering distractions.
Difficulty in this area may show up as losing track during conversations, becoming distracted during school or work, or making avoidable mistakes.
Sustained Attention
Sustained attention is the ability to maintain focus over time.
This can become especially important during activities such as:
- Studying
- Reading
- Completing homework
- Attending meetings
- Performing repetitive tasks
Working Memory
Working memory allows you to temporarily hold and use information.
You rely on working memory when following multi-step instructions, solving problems, or remembering what you were doing after being interrupted.
Planning
Planning helps you organize actions toward a goal.
Challenges with planning can contribute to procrastination, difficulty starting projects, and feeling overwhelmed by complicated tasks.
Response Inhibition
Response inhibition involves controlling an automatic response when necessary.
This is one of the cognitive abilities that can be relevant when evaluating impulsivity.
📌 What Is Creyos Testing Like?
Creyos is computer-based and interactive.
Instead of sitting through a traditional written examination, patients complete a series of short cognitive tasks designed to measure different aspects of performance.
The Creyos ADHD protocol includes five cognitive tasks and associated behavioral questionnaires. Creyos states that the protocol generally takes less than 25 minutes to complete, although the broader ADHD evaluation involves additional clinical information and may take longer.
This means testing is only one part of the overall assessment process.
💭 Does Creyos Diagnose ADHD?
No. Creyos alone does not diagnose ADHD.
This is an important distinction.
ADHD is a clinical diagnosis that requires a broader evaluation. Creyos provides objective cognitive performance data that a healthcare provider can consider alongside other information.
An ADHD evaluation may consider:
- Current symptoms
- Developmental history
- Medical history
- Behavioral questionnaires
- Cognitive testing
- School or workplace functioning
- Family observations when relevant
- Clinical interviews
- Other possible explanations for symptoms
Creyos helps add another piece of information to that bigger picture.
🤔 Why Is Objective Cognitive Testing Helpful?
Traditional ADHD evaluations often rely partly on what patients, parents, or others report about everyday behavior.
That information is extremely valuable—but it is subjective.
For example, someone may report:
“I have trouble concentrating.”
Creyos adds performance-based information by asking the patient to complete structured cognitive tasks.
This gives providers two different perspectives:
Behavioral information: What difficulties are you experiencing in everyday life?
Cognitive performance: How do you perform on specific tasks measuring relevant cognitive abilities?
Together with clinical evaluation, these different sources of information can help providers develop a more complete understanding of a patient’s concerns.
💬 Could Difficulty Concentrating Be Something Other Than ADHD?
Yes.
Difficulty concentrating does not automatically mean ADHD.
Attention and executive-function problems may also be associated with or influenced by:
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Sleep difficulties
- Chronic stress
- Trauma
- Learning difficulties
- Other mental or physical health concerns
Some conditions can also occur alongside ADHD.
That’s why a comprehensive evaluation matters.
The goal shouldn’t simply be to confirm ADHD. It should be to better understand why you’re experiencing these difficulties.
❤️🩹 When Should a Teen Be Evaluated for ADHD?
Parents may consider discussing an ADHD evaluation when their teen consistently struggles with attention or executive functioning and those difficulties begin interfering with everyday life.
You may notice:
- Homework takes significantly longer than expected
- Assignments are completed but never turned in
- Instructions need to be repeated frequently
- Your teen constantly loses belongings
- Starting homework feels nearly impossible
- Large projects become overwhelming
- Deadlines are frequently missed
- Their backpack, schedule, or bedroom is chronically disorganized
These behaviors don’t automatically indicate ADHD.
But persistent patterns deserve to be understood rather than dismissed as laziness or lack of motivation.
🤝 When Should an Adult Consider ADHD Testing?
Adults may benefit from discussing an evaluation when persistent difficulties with attention, organization, or impulsivity affect work, relationships, or everyday responsibilities.
You might find yourself thinking:
“Why do I procrastinate even when something is important?”
“Why am I constantly losing things?”
“Why can I focus intensely on certain things but struggle with routine tasks?”
“Why does staying organized take so much effort?”
An ADHD evaluation can help explore whether ADHD or another concern may be contributing.
📌 What Happens After Creyos ADHD Testing?
After testing, your provider can review the results alongside your clinical information.
Depending on your individual needs, next steps may include:
- Discussing evaluation findings
- ADHD education
- Behavioral strategies
- Therapy
- Lifestyle recommendations
- School or workplace support
- Medication management when clinically appropriate
- Follow-up monitoring
There is no single treatment plan that’s right for everyone with ADHD.
Treatment should reflect your symptoms, health history, goals, age, and individual circumstances.
📍 ADHD Testing for Teens & Adults in Sacramento
If you’ve been searching for ADHD testing in Sacramento, you now have another option.
At Bubblegum and Duct Tape Psychiatry, we offer Creyos ADHD testing for adolescents ages 12+ and adults as part of our personalized approach to mental health care.
Our Psychiatry and Therapy Clinic in Sacramento offers services that may include:
✔️ ADHD evaluation
✔️ Creyos cognitive testing for ages 12+
✔️ Adolescent psychiatry
✔️ Adult psychiatry
✔️ Individual therapy
✔️ Personalized treatment planning
✔️ Medication management when clinically appropriate
✔️ Ongoing monitoring and follow-up
Our goal is not simply to give you a test result.
It’s to help you better understand what’s happening and determine what comes next.
📍 Sacramento Office:
180 Promenade Circle, Suite 300
Sacramento, CA 95834
🎯 Stop Wondering. Start Getting Answers.
Living with unexplained difficulties in attention, organization, memory, or impulse control can be frustrating.
For parents, it may mean watching a capable teenager struggle despite trying hard.
For adults, it may mean years of wondering why tasks that seem simple for other people feel unnecessarily difficult.
ADHD testing can be a step toward greater clarity.
And even if ADHD isn’t ultimately the explanation, a comprehensive evaluation can help identify other factors that may deserve attention.
The goal isn’t a label. It’s understanding.
If you or your teen is experiencing persistent difficulties with attention, organization, working memory, planning, or impulsivity, our team is here to help. Creyos ADHD testing is now available for adolescents ages 12 and older and adults at our Sacramento practice. Schedule an ADHD evaluation today↗. More clarity starts with understanding how your mind works.