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The Predictive Validity of a Psychological Test of Brain-Damage

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

D. Walton  and
D. A. Black
D. Walton
Affiliation:
From the Departments of Psychology, Winwick Hospital, Warrington and Rainhill Hospital, near Liverpool
D. A. Black
Affiliation:
From the Departments of Psychology, Winwick Hospital, Warrington and Rainhill Hospital, near Liverpool
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A psychological test of brain-damage, shown to be valid in discriminating between unequivocal brain-damaged and non-brain-damaged psychiatric patients, is limited in its diagnostic role until studies can demonstrate its independent diagnostic contribution in the clinically doubtful case of brain-damage.

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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 105 , Issue 440 , July 1959 , pp. 807 - 810
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1959 

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