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A brief clinical neuropsychologic battery: Clinical classification trials
Author(s) -
Barrett Edwin T.,
Wheatley Richard D.,
la Plant Robert J.
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/1097-4679(198311)39:6<980::aid-jclp2270390628>3.0.co;2-a
Subject(s) - psychology , neuropsychology , neuropsychological test , clinical trial , test (biology) , psychiatry , clinical psychology , cognition , medicine , paleontology , biology
Based upon non‐neuropsychological evaluative data, 150 neuropsychiatric referrals were classified independently into Definite (DBD), Suspected (SBD), or No Brain Damage (NBD) groups. Each S was examined with a brief, 2‐hour neuropsychologic battery and the test data clinically rated by two neuropsychologists, blind to group membership. Clinical classifications were compared with criteria for NBD vs. SBD + DBD, NDB vs. SBD, and SBD vs. DBD groupings. Hit rates ranged from 83.3% for the former to 64.3% for the latter. These results compared favorably with hit rates derived from statistical classification trials. Clinicians also classified SBD and DBD cases into one of eight different diagnostic categories. The overall hit rate was 61.3%.