Memory complaints inventory and symptom validity test performance in a clinical sample

Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 725-734

  Armistead Jehle, Patrick ^a   Gervais, Roger O ^b   Green, Paul ^c  

^a Munson Army Health Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Memory complaints inventory; Response bias; Symptom validity testing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872934195     PISSN: 08876177     EISSN: 18735843     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/arclin/acs071     Document Type: Article

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