title: Luria-Nebraska Neuropsychological Battery performance of brain dysfunctional patients with positive or negative findings on current neurological examination.
abstract: Two experiments were conducted to investigate the effects of positive or negative neurological examination results on performance on the Luria-Nebraska Neuropsychological Battery in a sample of 229 patients with a history of proven brain damage. The groups did not differ on demographic variables of age, education, or disorder chronicity. The positive and negative neurological examination groups were highly differentiable. A second study demonstrated additional high subgroup differentiability within the positive and negative neurological examination groups as a function of the degree of cognitive deficit demonstrated on the neuropsychological measure. Implications of the results were discussed.
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain / Q000503:physiopathology; D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000523:psychology; D007839:Functional Laterality; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D008875:Middle Aged; D009043:Motor Activity; D009460:Neurologic Examination; D011581:Psychological Tests; D013060:Speech