False-Positive error rates for reliable digit span and auditory verbal learning test performance validity measures in amnestic mild cognitive impairment and early Alzheimer disease

Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 313-331

  Loring, David W ^a   Goldstein, Felicia C ^a   Chen, Chuqing ^b   Drane, Daniel L ^a   Lah, James J ^a   Zhao, Liping ^b   Larrabee, Glenn J ^c  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Independent Practice   (United States)

Author keywords

AVLT; False positive rate; Performance validity test; Reliable Digit Span; Test specificity

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COGNITION DISORDERS; COGNITIVE DYSFUNCTION; COMPLICATION; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LEARNING DISORDERS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VERY ELDERLY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COGNITION DISORDERS; COGNITIVE DYSFUNCTION; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING DISORDERS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 84979536460     PISSN: 08876177     EISSN: 18735843     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/arclin/acw014     Document Type: Article

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