If you or your child struggles with focus, organization, impulsivity, forgetfulness, or completing everyday tasks, you may wonder whether ADHD could be part of the picture.
But ADHD symptoms can overlap with anxiety, depression, sleep difficulties, stress, and other concerns. That’s why a thoughtful ADHD evaluation should look beyond a simple checklist.
Creyos ADHD testing provides clinicians with objective information about cognitive abilities commonly affected by ADHD. At Bubblegum and Duct Tape Psychiatry, we offer Creyos ADHD testing for adolescents ages 12 and up and adults as part of our approach to ADHD assessment and mental health care.
Our Psychiatry and Therapy Clinic in Sacramento helps children ages 12+, teens, and adults better understand their symptoms and determine appropriate next steps for care.
📍 Sacramento Office:
180 Promenade Circle, Suite 300
Sacramento, CA 95834
💡 What Is Creyos ADHD Testing?
Creyos is a digital cognitive assessment platform that gives healthcare providers objective information about how a person performs across cognitive skills associated with ADHD.
Rather than relying only on questions such as “Do you have trouble concentrating?”, Creyos asks patients to complete short, interactive cognitive tasks.
The ADHD protocol combines these performance-based tasks with age-appropriate behavioral questionnaires. Results are then compared with demographic-specific normative data to help clinicians understand whether certain cognitive markers fall within or outside typical ranges.
At our practice, ADHD testing with Creyos is available for patients ages 12 and older, including adults.
⭐ What Does Creyos ADHD Testing Measure?
Creyos evaluates several cognitive abilities that can be affected by ADHD.
1. Attention
Does your mind wander even when you’re trying hard to concentrate?
Creyos measures aspects of attention through tasks that look at how accurately and consistently a person responds.
This can provide objective information about difficulties with maintaining focus.
2. Sustained Attention
Starting a task is one thing. Staying focused when it becomes repetitive is another.
The Creyos ADHD protocol includes the Sustained Attention to Response Task (SART), a continuous-performance task designed to assess sustained attention and response patterns.
This may be particularly relevant for people who struggle with:
- Long classes or meetings
- Reading
- Homework
- Repetitive work
- Staying focused on tasks that aren’t highly stimulating
3. Working Memory
Working memory allows us to temporarily hold and use information.
For example, you use working memory when:
- Following multi-step instructions
- Remembering what you were doing after an interruption
- Solving a problem in your head
- Keeping track of information while completing a task
Creyos uses its Token Search task to assess spatial working memory.
4. Response Inhibition
Have you ever acted or responded before having time to think?
Response inhibition is your ability to suppress an automatic or inappropriate response.
Creyos uses the Double Trouble task to measure aspects of response inhibition and selective attention.
These skills can be relevant when evaluating impulsivity associated with ADHD.
5. Planning and Executive Function
Executive functions help us organize our behavior to accomplish goals.
Creyos includes a Spatial Planning task that evaluates planning ability.
Executive-function difficulties may appear in everyday life as:
- Procrastinating
- Difficulty getting started
- Poor time management
- Trouble organizing school or work
- Feeling overwhelmed by multi-step projects
🎯 What Does a Creyos ADHD Test Look Like?
Creyos isn’t a traditional paper-and-pencil exam.
The assessment uses short, interactive computerized tasks that evaluate cognitive performance. The ADHD protocol includes five cognitive tasks:
| Creyos Task | What It Measures |
|---|---|
| Spatial Planning | Planning |
| Token Search | Spatial working memory |
| Feature Match | Attention |
| Double Trouble | Response inhibition |
| SART | Sustained attention to response |
Together, these tasks evaluate 14 performance markers associated with ADHD.
The complete ADHD assessment generally takes less than 25 minutes and can be administered in person or remotely when clinically appropriate.
🤝 Is Creyos ADHD Testing Available for Both Teens and Adults?
Yes.
At Bubblegum and Duct Tape Psychiatry, we offer Creyos ADHD testing for adolescents ages 12 and older and adults.
This can be especially useful because ADHD doesn’t disappear simply because someone reaches adulthood.
A teenager may struggle with:
- Homework
- Following instructions
- Organization
- Forgetfulness
- School performance
- Impulsivity
An adult may experience similar difficulties differently:
- Missing deadlines
- Chronic procrastination
- Difficulty organizing work
- Forgetting appointments
- Losing important items
- Difficulty completing projects
Creyos uses age-appropriate questionnaires alongside cognitive testing to provide relevant information across different age groups.
🧠 How Is Teen ADHD Testing Different From Adult ADHD Testing?
The cognitive testing is supplemented by questionnaires appropriate to the patient’s age.
For example, Creyos describes the SWAN questionnaire for adolescents and the Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale (ASRS) for adults.
This matters because ADHD can look different depending on someone’s age, responsibilities, environment, and daily demands.
A 14-year-old struggling to complete assignments may experience ADHD very differently from a 35-year-old struggling to manage deadlines, appointments, and household responsibilities.
💭 Can Creyos Diagnose ADHD?
This is an important distinction:
Creyos should not be considered a standalone ADHD diagnosis.
The assessment provides objective cognitive information that clinicians can use alongside other components of a comprehensive evaluation.
Creyos itself states that its ADHD protocol is intended to assist clinicians and that results should be interpreted together with clinical interviews, observations, other assessments, and relevant patient or family history.
In other words:
Creyos provides data. Your healthcare provider interprets that data within the bigger clinical picture.
👉 Why Not Just Use an ADHD Questionnaire?
Questionnaires are valuable because they help clinicians understand what patients experience in everyday life.
However, they’re based largely on reported experiences.
For example:
“How often do you have difficulty concentrating?”
Two people may interpret that question very differently.
Creyos adds another layer by measuring actual performance during cognitive tasks.
Combining subjective information from questionnaires with objective cognitive performance can give providers a more complete picture when evaluating ADHD concerns.
📌 What Happens After Creyos ADHD Testing?
After testing, Creyos generates a report showing performance across the cognitive markers evaluated.
Providers can review:
- Areas within expected ranges
- Areas outside typical ranges
- Attention performance
- Working-memory performance
- Planning abilities
- Response inhibition
- Sustained-attention patterns
- Questionnaire findings
Results can then be considered alongside your symptoms, history, daily functioning, and clinical evaluation.
🤔 Can Creyos Be Used to Monitor ADHD Treatment?
Creyos can also be repeated over time.
Because the assessment provides quantitative performance data, clinicians may use repeat testing to monitor changes in areas such as attention, focus, and self-control following treatment or other interventions.
That may help answer an important question:
Is treatment making a measurable difference?
Testing results are still only one part of determining treatment effectiveness. Your symptoms and functioning at school, work, home, and in relationships also matter.
🎯 Who Might Consider ADHD Testing?
An ADHD evaluation may be worth discussing if you or your teen consistently experiences difficulties such as:
- Trouble concentrating
- Frequent forgetfulness
- Chronic procrastination
- Difficulty finishing tasks
- Poor organization
- Losing things frequently
- Restlessness
- Impulsive behavior
- Difficulty following multi-step instructions
- Problems managing time
- Academic or workplace difficulties
Experiencing these symptoms doesn’t automatically mean someone has ADHD. Anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and other conditions can sometimes cause similar difficulties.
A professional evaluation can help clarify what’s happening.
📍 Creyos ADHD Testing for Ages 12+ in Sacramento
If you’ve been searching for ADHD testing in Sacramento, Bubblegum and Duct Tape Psychiatry offers Creyos ADHD testing for adolescents ages 12 and older and adults.
Our Psychiatry and Therapy Clinic in Sacramento can help patients and families move beyond simply wondering “Could this be ADHD?” toward a clearer understanding of their symptoms and potential next steps.
Depending on individual needs, care may include:
✔️ ADHD assessment
✔️ Creyos cognitive testing
✔️ Adolescent and adult psychiatry
✔️ Individual therapy
✔️ Personalized treatment planning
✔️ Medication management when clinically appropriate
✔️ Ongoing monitoring and follow-up
Our goal isn’t simply to identify a diagnosis. It’s to understand how symptoms are affecting your life and develop an individualized plan for moving forward.
📍 Sacramento Office:
180 Promenade Circle, Suite 300
Sacramento, CA 95834
📢 Stop Guessing About ADHD. Start Understanding What’s Happening.
When attention, organization, memory, or impulsivity difficulties begin interfering with school, work, relationships, or everyday responsibilities, getting answers can be an important first step.
Creyos ADHD testing adds objective cognitive information to the evaluation process, helping providers better understand how someone performs across areas commonly associated with ADHD.
For parents, that may mean greater clarity about what’s behind their teen’s struggles.
For adults, it may finally provide an opportunity to explore difficulties they’ve experienced for years.
And if ADHD isn’t the full explanation, a comprehensive mental health evaluation can help identify other factors that may be contributing.
If you or your teen is experiencing attention, focus, organization, or impulsivity difficulties, consider scheduling an ADHD evaluation with our team. Creyos ADHD testing is available for adolescents ages 12+ and adults. Schedule an ADHD testing appointment↗. Better information can lead to better-informed care.