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A Test Validation Study

BORJE CRONHOLM, M.D.; DAISY SCHALLING, Ph.D.

AMA Arch Surg. 1963;86(4):670-687.

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Introduction

Clinical observations and the more or less systematic use of various test methods have led to broadly defined concepts of the areas of mental functioning which are disturbed as a result of brain injury. Departing from these concepts many "brain injury tests" have been designed with the aim of diagnosing the existence of a brain injury or measuring the degree of intellectual deterioration in brain injury cases. The observation that the ability to solve problems on an "abstract level" is often highly impaired has been utilized for the construction of some tests, e.g., by Goldstein and Scheerer¹⁷ and Grassi.²⁰ As memory disturbances of different kinds are often observed, memory tests have been used as diagnostic tools (see e.g., Wechsler,⁵⁷ Morrow and Cohen³⁹ and Knott, Bilodeau and Umberger³³). Graham and Kendall,¹⁹ Benton,⁴ and others have described tests in which the patient is required . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN

From Statens Arbetsklinik (The National Clinic for Assessment of Working Capacity) and the Department of Psychiatry, Karolinska sjukhuset, Stockholm.

Footnotes
Received for publication Nov. 5, 1962.

Aided by grants from Svenska Personalpensionskassan and Folksams Rehabiliteringsfond.

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