“When clinicians interpret neuropsychological testing results, they compare a person’s scores to a set of “”normal”” values. But for these comparisons to be meaningful, the “”normal”” group must truly represent healthy individuals. To ensure this, people with conditions that might affect test results—such as mental health disorders—are often excluded when creating these reference points. The focus of this Army-funded original research study was to evaluate how mental health conditions, like PTSD and depression, impact cognitive test performance in active-duty military personnel. This is important because past research on digital cognitive assessments for military members has not fully accounted for the effects of these conditions, even though they are quite common in this group. Findings showed that those who self-reported higher levels of psychological distress tended to perform worse on certain cognitive tests. This suggests that mental health conditions that are relatively common in this population need to be taken into account when establishing normative datasets for cognitive assessment results in the military.”