Confounding effects of pain, psychoemotional problems or psychiatric disorder, premorbid ability structure, and motivational or other factors on neuropsychological test performance

Psychological Knowledge in Court: PTSD, Pain, and TBI

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 335-351

  Nicholson, Keith ^a   Martelli, Michael F ^b  

^a TORONTO WESTERN HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b Tree of Life LLC   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/0-387-25610-5_18     Document Type: Chapter

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