Detecting malingering in traumatic brain injury and chronic pain: A comparison of three forced-choice symptom validity tests

Clinical Neuropsychologist

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 896-918

  Greve, Kevin W ^a,b   Ord, Jonathan ^a   Curtis, Kelly L ^a,b   Bianchini, Kevin J ^a,b   Brennan, Adrianne ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

^b Jefferson Neurobehavioral Group   (United States)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALINGERING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PORTLAND DIGIT RECOGNITION TEST; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; TEST OF MEMORY MALINGERING; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; VALIDITY; WORD MEMORY TEST;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN INJURIES; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CHRONIC DISEASE; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MALINGERING; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PAIN; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 50649103882     PISSN: 13854046     EISSN: 17444144     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13854040701565208     Document Type: Article

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