Malingering - Psychology
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

American Academy of Clinical Neuropsychology Consensus Conference Statement on the neuropsychological assessment of effort, response bias, and malingering.

31 Aug 2009 During the past two decades clinical and research efforts have led to increasingly sophisticated and effective methods and instruments designed to detect exaggeration or fabrication of neuropsychological dysfunction, as well as somatic and ... Read more...

Detecting malingered pain-related disability: classification accuracy of the test of memory malingering.

30 Aug 2009 This study used criterion groups validation to determine the accuracy of the Test of Memory Malingering (TOMM) in detecting malingered pain-related disability (MPRD) across a range of cutoffs in chronic pain patients undergoing psychological ... Read more...

[Expert assessment of tinnitus in statutory accident insurance]

29 Jun 2009 Tinnitus is defined as hearing sensation without external noise source. The aetiology contains also occupational causes such as noise industrial pollution and inner ear trauma, nevertheless the origin of tinnitus is vastly unexplained. For the ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Malingering - Psychology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• American Academy of Clinical Neuropsychology Consensus Conference Statement on the neuropsychological assessment of effort, response bias, and malingering. 31 Aug 2009
• Detecting malingered pain-related disability: classification accuracy of the test of memory malingering. 30 Aug 2009
• [Expert assessment of tinnitus in statutory accident insurance] 29 Jun 2009
• Prevalence of malingering in patients with chronic pain referred for psychologic evaluation in a medico-legal context. 29 Jun 2009
• [Is the "psychopathy concept" applicable to expert opinions in civil suits?] 30 May 2009
• Are exaggerated health complaints continuous or categorical? A taxometric analysis of the Health Problem Overstatement Scale. 30 May 2009
• Ganser syndrome with work-related onset in a patient with a background of immigration. 29 Apr 2009
• [Complex regional pain syndrome type II or psychogenic painful finger contracture?] 30 Mar 2009
• Malingering dysphagia and odynophagia electromyographic assessment. 4 Mar 2009
• Detecting malingered pain-related disability: classification accuracy of the Portland Digit Recognition Test. 28 Feb 2009
• Detecting feigned impairment with the word list recognition of the Wechsler Memory Scale-3rd edition. 27 Feb 2009
• Evaluating constructs represented by symptom validity tests in forensic neuropsychological assessment of traumatic brain injury. 27 Feb 2009
• Traumatic brain injury and forensic neuropsychology. 27 Feb 2009
• Rates of below-chance performance in forced-choice symptom validity tests. 14 Feb 2009
• The pattern of psychopathology associated with malingering tendencies at basic psychiatric screening of the Swiss Armed Forces. 30 Jan 2009
• Clinical myths of forensic neuropsychology. 30 Jan 2009
• Malingering detection with the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test in mild traumatic brain injury. 30 Jan 2009
• The vulnerability to coaching across measures of effort. 30 Jan 2009
• The case that has psychiatrists running scared: Ahmed v. Stefaniu. 30 Dec 2008
• Clinical and conceptual problems in the attribution of malingering in forensic evaluations. 30 Dec 2008

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Technical information about 'Malingering'

Definition: Simulation of symptoms of illness or injury with intent to deceive in order to obtain a goal, e.g., a claim of physical illness to avoid jury duty.

Descriptor UI: D008306

Alternative terms: Malingering;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: F01.145.126.925;