Different patterns of cerebral activation in genuine and malingered cognitive effort during performance on the Word Memory Test

Brain Injury

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 89-99

  Larsen, James D ^a,b   Allen, Mark D ^a   Bigler, Erin D ^a,c,d   Goodrich Hunsaker, Naomi J ^a,e,f   Hopkins, Ramona O ^a,d,g  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c Department of Psychiatry ^*

^d UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^e NeuroTherapeutics Research Institute

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g INTERMOUNTAIN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Effort testing; FMRI; Malingering; Neuropsychological assessment; Symptom validity testing; Word Memory Test

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE; ARTICLE; CINGULATE GYRUS; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SIMULATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MALINGERING; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SEX DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VALIDITY; VERBAL MEMORY; WORD MEMORY TEST; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 75749112495     PISSN: 02699052     EISSN: 1362301X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/02699050903508218     Document Type: Article

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