Detecting Poor Effort and Malingering with an Expanded Version of the Auditory Verbal Learning Test (AVLTX): Validation with Clinical Samples

Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 125-140

  Barrash, Joseph ^a   Suhr, Julie ^b   Manzel, Kenneth ^c  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY VERBAL LEARNING TEST; BRAIN INJURY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MALINGERING; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL PATIENT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADULT; BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MALINGERING; MEMORY DISORDERS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 1642421744     PISSN: 13803395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1076/jcen.26.1.125.23928     Document Type: Article

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