Cognitive and Perceptual-Motor Indicators of Lateralized vs. Diffuse Brain Damage in Adults.

Among the goals of the neuropsychological assessment are to detect the presence of brain damage, localize which areas of the brain may be dysfunctional and describe subsequent functional impairments. The sensitivity of neuropsychological instruments in carrying out these functions is a question of some debate. The purpose of this study is to determine the utility of lateralizing indicators from the WAIS-III, McCarron Assessment of Neuromuscular Development (MAND) and Haptic Visual Discrimination Test (HVDT), from the McCarron-Dial System Neuropsychological Assessment Battery (MDS), in ascertaining the presence or absence of brain damage as well as location of lesion. The classification accuracies of using performance level indicators from these tests and lateralizing indicators, alone and together, were compared.

Grantor dc:publisher

University of North Texas

Year dc:date

2002

Author dc:creator

• Gregory, Erin Kathleen Taylor

Contributors dc:contributor

• Bodenhamer-Davis, Eugenia
• Dial, Jack
• Ramos, Vincent

• Brain damage -- Diagnosis.
• Neuropsychological tests.
• neuropsychological assessment
• lateralizing indicators
• WAIS-III
• brain damage

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• Use restricted to UNT Community
• Copyright
• Gregory, Erin Kathleen Taylor
• Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

Language dc:language

English

Identifier

oclc: 52110426
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