Neuropsychological and behavioral measures of attention assess different constructs in children with traumatic brain injury

Clinical Neuropsychologist

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1145-1157

  Barney, Sally J ^a   Allen, Daniel N ^a   Thaler, Nicholas S ^a   Park, Brandon S ^a   Strauss, Gregory P ^a   Mayfield, Joan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b BAYLOR HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; BASC; Behavioral Assessment System for Children; Children; Comprehensive Trail Making Test; Conners CPT; Continuous Performance Test II; CTMT; Test of Memory and Learning; TOMAL; Traumatic brain injury; WCST; Wisconsin Card Sorting Test

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN INJURY; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PSYCHOMETRY; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; BRAIN INJURIES; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PSYCHOMETRICS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84857301581     PISSN: 13854046     EISSN: 17444144     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13854046.2011.595956     Document Type: Article

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