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| Research article summary (published 27 Feb 2003): |
Quantitative measures of memory malingering on the Wechsler Memory Scale--Third edition in mild head injury litigants.
Full Abstract
Wechsler Memory Scale-Third edition (WMS-III) performance in 25 mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) litigants who met the criteria for probable malingered neurocognitive dysfunction (MND) was compared with 50 nonmalingering subjects. The base rate for probable MND in the population studied was 27%. Overall, malingerers showed globally depressed memory function. They returned significantly poorer scores than nonmalingerers on all WMS-III indexes and subtests, and on selected WMS-III index difference scores and intelligence-memory difference scores. Using the minimum score returned in the nonmalingerers as the cut-off for malingering, the delayed auditory recognition memory tasks were highly effective in detecting malingering. Raw scores below 43 on the auditory recognition-delayed (AR-D) subtest or below 18 on word list II-recognition, identified around 80% of the malingerers. In a group of 50 severe TBI litigants, only a very small proportion (i.e., <10%) returned scores below the cut-offs for malingering for the mild TBI subjects.
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Author/s: Langeluddecke, Pauline M (PM); Lucas, Sara K (SK);
Affiliation: Suite 1003, 37 Bligh Street, 2000, NSW, Sydney, Australia. langeluddecke(-atsign-)bigpond.com
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Publication Type: Comparative Study; Journal Article
Journal: Archives of clinical neuropsychology : the official journal of the National Academy of Neuropsychologists (Arch Clin Neuropsychol), published in United States. (Language: eng)
Reference: 2003-Mar; vol 18 (issue 2) : pp 181-97
Dates: Created 2003/10/31; Completed 2003/11/21; Revised 2006/11/15;
PMID: 14591470, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 2/18/2009, IMS Date: )
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