Memory malingering: Evaluating WMT criteria

Applied Neuropsychology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 177-182

  Martins, Maurício ^a   Martins, Isabel P ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA MOLECULAR   (Portugal)

Author keywords

criteria; malingering; memory; WMT

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MALINGERING; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDER; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MALINGERING; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDERS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77956290337     PISSN: 09084282     EISSN: 15324826     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09084281003715709     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Allen, M. D., Bigler, E. D., Larsen, J., Goodrich-Hunsaker, N. J., & Hopkins, R. O. (2007). Functional neuroimaging evidence for high cognitive effort on the Word Memory Test in the absence of external incentives. Brain Injury, 21, 1425-1428.
2. American Psychiatric Association. (1994). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (4th ed.). Washington, DC: Author.
3. Bacelar do Nascimento, M. F., et al. (2007). CRPC-Corpus de Referen̂cia do Portugueŝ Contemporan̂eo. Retrieved September 2007, from http://www.clul.ul.pt/sectores/linguistica-de-corpus- projecto-crpc.php
4. Bauer, L., O'Bryant, S. E., Lynch, J. K., McCaffrey, R. J., & Fisher, J. M. (2007). Examining the Test of Memory Malingering Trial 1 and Word Memory Test Immediate Recognition as screening tools for insufficient effort. Assessment, 14, 215-222.
5. Botelho, M. A. (2000). Autonomia funcional em idosos [Functional autonomy in the elderly]. Porto, Portugal: Laborató rios Bial.
6. Brockhaus, R., & Merten, T. (2004). Neuropsychological assessment of suboptimal performance: The Word Memory Test. Nervenarzt, 75, 882-887.
7. Bush, S., Ruff, R., Troster, A., Barth, J., Koffler, S., Pliskin, N., et al. (2005). Symptom validity assessment: Practice issues and medical necessity (NAN Policy and Planning Committee). Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 20, 419-426.
8. Davies, Mark. (1990). Corpus of contemporary American English. Retrieved September 2007, from http://www.americancorpus.org
9. Donders, J., & Boonstra, T. (2007). Correlates of invalid neuropsychological test performance after traumatic brain injury. Brain Injury, 21, 319-326.
10. Flaro, L., Green, P., & Robertson, E. (2007). Word Memory Test failure 23 times higher in mild brain injury than in parents seeking custody: The power of external incentives. Brain Injury, 21, 373-383.
11. Garcia, C. (1984). Alzheimer's disease: Difficulties in clinical diagnosis. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Lisbon.
12. Gorissen, M., Sanz, J. C., & Schmand, B. (2005). Effort and cognition in schizophrenia patients. Schizophrenia Research, 78, 199-208.
13. Green, P. (2003). Manual for the Word Memory Test for Windows. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada: Green's Publishing.
14. Green, P. (2007). The pervasive influence of effort on neuropsychological tests. Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinics of North America, 18, 43-68.
15. Green, P., Iverson, G. L., & Allen, L. M. (1999). Detecting malingering in head injury litigation with the Word Memory Test. Brain Injury, 13, 813-819.
16. Green, P., Lees-Haley, P. R., & Allen, L. M. (2002). The Word Memory Test and the validity of neuropsychological test scores. Journal of Forensic Neuropsychology, 2, 97-124.
17. Green, P., Rohling, M. L., Lees-Haley, P. R., & Allen, L. M. (2001). Effort has a greater effect on test scores than severe brain injury in compensation claimants. Brain Injury, 15, 1045-1060.
18. Hartman, D. E. (2002). The unexamined lie is a lie worth fibbing: Neuropsychological malingering and the Word Memory Test. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 17, 709-714.
19. Iverson, G. L. (2006). Ethical issues associated with the assessment of exaggeration, poor effort, and malingering. Applied Neuropsychology, 13, 77-90.
20. Lawton, M. P., & Brody, E. M. (1969). Assessment of older people: Self-maintaining and instrumental activities of daily living. Gerontologist, 9, 179-186.
21. Merten, T., Bossink, L., & Schmand, B. (2007). On the limits of effort testing: Symptom validity tests and severity of neurocognitive symptoms in nonlitigant patients. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 29, 308-318.
22. Morel, K. R. (2008). Comparison of the Morel Emotional Numbing Test for posttraumatic stress disorder to the Word Memory Test in neuropsychological evaluations. The Clinical Neuropsychologist, 22, 350-362.
23. Pantoni, L., Basile, A. M., Pracucci, J., Asplund, K., Bogousslavsky, J., Chabriat, H., et al. on behalf of the Ladis study group. (2005). Impact of age-related cerebral white matter changes on the transition to disability-The Ladis Study: Rationale, design, and methodology. Neuroepidemiologia, 24, 51-62.
24. Petersen, R. C., Doody, R., Kurz, A., Mohs, R. C., Morris, J. C., Rabins, P. V., et al. (2001). Current concepts in mild cognitive impairment. Archives of Neurology, 58, 1985-1992.
25. Stevens, A., Friedel, E., Mehren, G., & Merten, T. (2008). Malingering and uncooperativeness in psychiatric and psychological assessment: Prevalence and effects in a German sample of claimants. Psychiatry Research, 157, 191-200.
26. Sullivan, B. K., May, K., & Galbally, L. (2007). Symptom exaggeration by college adults in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and learning disorder assessments. Applied Neuropsychology, 14, 189-207.
27. van Beilen, M., van Zomeren, E. H., van den Bosch, R. J., Withaar, F. K., & Bouma, A. (2005). Measuring the executive functions in schizophrenia: The voluntary allocation of effort. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 39, 585-593.
28. Wynkoop, T. F., & Denney, R. L. (2005). Test review: Green's Word Memory Test (WMT) for Windows. Journal of Forensic Neuropsychology, 4, 101-105.