Testing the limits: Cautions and concerns regarding the new Wechsler IQ and Memory scales

Neurology

Volumn 74, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 685-690

  Loring, David W ^a   Bauer, Russell M ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COGNITION; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; INTELLIGENCE TEST; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; VISUAL MEMORY; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE; WECHSLER MEMORY SCALE; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 77649152194     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e3181d0cd12     Document Type: Review

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