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Suppressed working memory on the WMS-III as a marker for poor effort.

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  • Suppressed working memory on the WMS-III as a marker for poor effort. Abstract Text:

    The purpose of this study was to examine the clinical utility of memory minus Working Memory Index (memory-WMI) discrepancy scores on the WMS-III for detecting poor effort in 145 personal injury litigants (19 poor effort, 126 adequate effort). On average, participants in the poor effort group performed significantly lower on all WMS-III memory indexes and demonstrated larger memory-WMI discrepancy scores compared to participants in the adequate effort group. Discriminant function analyses using memory-WMI discrepancy scores as independent variables revealed poor overall classification rates (60.0% to 63.4%). Based on the prevalence of unusually suppressed attention-concentration ability relative to memory functioning using unidirectional memory-WMI discrepancy scores, high specificity and negative predictive power values were found. However, there was unacceptably low sensitivity and positive predictive power. These results suggest that memory-WMI discrepancy scores on the WMS-III do not provide clinically useful information regarding response set and should be used cautiously as an indicator of poor effort.

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    PUBLICATION TYPE: Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov

    Journal: Journal of clinical and experimental neuropsycholo

    VOLUME: 28

    Page Numbers: 294-305

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    ISSN: 1380-3395

    DAY: 14

    MONTH: Apr

    YEAR: 2006

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    LANGUAGE: eng

    NlmUniqueID: 8502170

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    KEYWORDS: Weights and Measures

    MESH TERMS: statistics & numerical data

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    AFFILIATION: Riverview Hospital, Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada. rlange@bcmhs.bc.ca

    Country: United States

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    MEDLINETA: J Clin Exp Neuropsychol

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