title: How useful is the WAIS-R in closed head injury assessment?
abstract: The present study examined whether head-injury assessment findings based on the WAIS could be generalized to the WAIS-R. It also investigated whether WAIS-R findings from individuals with focal mass lesions could be generalized to closed-head-injured patients with mass lesions. Subjects were 71 CHI patients assessed with the WAIS-R an average of 1.38 years post-injury. Results were not always consistent with previous research. Patients with left or right mass lesion loci did not exhibit previously reported Verbal IQ-Performance IQ discrepancies.
authors.affiliation: Psychology Division, Royal University Hospital, Saskatoon, SK, Canada.
authors.forename: C E
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: Paniak
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Silver
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Finlayson
authors.forename: L P
authors.initials: LP
authors.lastname: Tuff
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000647:Amnesia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D001924:Brain Concussion / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D001925:Brain Damage, Chronic / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D001929:Brain Edema / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D002543:Cerebral Hemorrhage / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D016489:Head Injuries, Closed / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D011594:Psychometrics; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014888:Wechsler Scales / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*