The Predictive Validity of a Psychological Test of Brain-Damage
Authors:
- D. WaltonDWD. Walton
- D. A. BlackDBD. A. Black
- 1 July 1959
- journal article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in Journal of Mental Science
- Vol. 105 (440) , 807-810
Abstract
A psychological test of brain-damage, shown to be valid in discriminating between unequivocal brain-damaged and non-brain-damaged psychiatric patients, is limited in its diagnostic role until studies can demonstrate its independent diagnostic contribution in the clinically doubtful case of brain-damage.Keywords
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- “Memory Function” in Psychiatric Patients Over Sixty, Some Methodological and Diagnostic ImplicationsJournal of Mental Science, 1956