Brief screening indexes for malingering: A confirmation of Vocabulary minus Digit Span from the WAIS-III and the rarely missed index from the WMS-III

Clinical Neuropsychologist

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 327-333

  Miller, Lori J ^a   Ryan, Joseph J ^a   Carruthers, Christine A ^a   Cluff, Richard B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL MISSOURI   (United States)

^b MISSOURI WESTERN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE TEST; MALE; MALINGERING; MEASUREMENT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PSYCHOMETRY; RARELY MISSED INDEX; RATING SCALE; SCREENING TEST; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VOCABULARY MINUS DIGIT SPAN; WECHSLER MEMORY SCALE;

ADULT; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MALINGERING; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; WECHSLER SCALES;

EID: 4444340225     PISSN: 13854046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13854040490501592     Document Type: Article

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