A practical method for the evaluation of symptom exaggeration in minor head trauma among civil litigants

Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 220-231

  Sreenivasan, Shoba ^a,d   Eth, Spencer ^b   Kirkish, Patricia ^e   Garrick, Thomas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; COGNITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMOTION; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; LAW SUIT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PSYCHOLOGIST; REVIEW; SYMPTOM; WITNESS;

CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; DECEPTION; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; EXPERT TESTIMONY; FEMALE; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SYNDROME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0038208307     PISSN: 10936793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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