Sensitivity and specificity of MMPI-2 validity scales and indicators to malingered neurocognitive dysfunction in traumatic brain injury

Clinical Neuropsychologist

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 491-512

  Greve, Kevin W ^a   Bianchini, Kevin J ^d   Love, Jeffrey M ^b   Brennan, Adrianne ^c   Heinly, Matthew T ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EVALUATION; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HUMAN; KNOWN GROUPS DESIGN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALINGERED NEUROCOGNITIVE DYSFUNCTION; MALINGERING; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL PATIENT; METHODOLOGY; MINNESOTA MULTIPHASIC PERSONALITY INVENTORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATIENT CODING; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN INJURIES; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; MALE; MALINGERING; MIDDLE AGED; MMPI; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 33747111694     PISSN: 13854046     EISSN: 17444144     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13854040590967144     Document Type: Article

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