The Use of Certain Psychological Tests in the Evaluation of Brain Injury

Auditory and Visual Memory Losses in Aging Populations

“…A test for recognition of facial photographs was also included, since such photographs are representative of the visual stimuli encountered in everyday life. The Wechsler Memory Scale and the Hunt‐Minnesota Test have been used previously to study memory deficits associated with brain dysfunction (8–11), but do not seem to have been used to study memory deficits associated with apparently normal aging.…”

Psychological consequences of brain lesions and ablations.

“…Ruesch and Moore (234) studied 190 patients immediately following head injury and reported that the serial subtraction test ("100-7") proved most sensitive, suggesting that the ability to maintain sustained effort is particularly sensitive to cerebral dysfunction, whether momentary or persistent. Similarly, other investigators have found evidence of memory loss dependent largely upon failures in attention and immediate retentiveness (4,10,20). Tests such as Halstead's Formboard Retention and Dynamic Visual Field (120), Teuber's Field of Search (263), and Benton's Visual Retention (43) have revealed fairly clear evidence of attention and immediate memory defects in cases of brain trauma or surgical ablation.…”

“…Brain-injured patients with focal lesions of the dominant hemisphere were more easily picked up by the use of the index than were those with nondominant lesions. On the basis of several studies and a comparison of brain-injured and braindiseased patients, Allen (7,8,9,10,11) suggested a modification of the index, but other studies have provided data which suggest that this modification is not significantly more discriminating than the original (4,47,230). Other attempts at developing deterioration indices (138,227) have been evaluated by Gutman (110), who found that a rather complex method developed by Hewson (138) agreed fairly well with clinical diagnoses of brain damage.…”

A case report comparing clinical, imaging and neuropsychological assessment findings in twins discordant for the VCP p.R155C mutation

“…The test batteries were administered at the same center by the same psychometrist/psychologists (BTG/SW, CN), all of whom had special training in FTD. The comprehensive neuropsychological test batteries included Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), HANDS screening depression tool [27], The Stroop Interference subtest, Victoria version [28, 29], Trails A and Trails B [30], The Digit Span subtests from the Wechsler Memory Scale—Revised (WMS-R) [31], The Letter Fluency Test [28], and The Boston Naming Test [32]. …”