Cognitive underperformance and symptom over-reporting in a mixed psychiatric sample

Clinical Neuropsychologist

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 812-828

  Dandachi Fitzgerald, Brechje ^a   Ponds, Rudolf W H M ^a   Peters, Maarten J V ^a   Merckelbach, Harald ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Amsterdam Short Term Memory Test; Over reporting; Structured Inventory of Malingered Symptomatology; Symptom validity tests; Underperformance

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MALINGERING; MENTAL DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MALINGERING; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREVALENCE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VERBAL LEARNING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960689895     PISSN: 13854046     EISSN: 17444144     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13854046.2011.583280     Document Type: Article

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