Children with moderate/severe brain damage/dysfunction outperform adults with mild-to-no brain damage on the Medical Symptom Validity Test

Brain Injury

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 960-971

  Carone, Dominic A ^a  

^a SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Effort testing; Malingering; Mild traumatic brain injury; Validity testing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN INJURY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALINGERING; MEDICAL SYMPTOM VALIDITY TEST; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; VALIDITY;

EID: 56349150935     PISSN: 02699052     EISSN: 1362301X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699050802491297     Document Type: Article

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