PMID: 641159Jan 1, 1978Paper

A short screening battery of tests to detect organic brain dysfunction

Journal of Clinical Psychology
M Kapur

Abstract

Constructed a short screening device to measure organic brain dysfunction, suitable for literate and non-literate populations. A battery that consisted of 8 tests and 22 scoring variables was administered to 65 brain-damaged Ss and 65 normal Ss. The two groups were matched on a person-to-person basis with respect to age, sex and years of schooling. Stepwise multiple regression technique was used to develop a procedure for discriminating organics from normals. At a selected cut-off point the battery could discriminate between organics and normals with only 6% misclassification of normals and 16% misclassification of organics. The classificatory system was validated further against a fresh sample of 33 Ss. The battery proved to have satisfactory discriminatory capacity.

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Nov 1, 1983·Journal of Clinical Psychology·E T BarrettR J La Plant
Feb 1, 1981·The British Journal of Psychiatry : the Journal of Mental Science·M S KeshavanG N Reddy
Oct 1, 1982·The British Journal of Psychiatry : the Journal of Mental Science·B N GangadharS Kalyanasundaram

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