title: Assessment of brain damage in a geriatric population through use of a visual-searching task.
abstract: This study was designed to assess the discriminative capacity of a visual-searching task for brain damage, as described by Goldstein and Kyc (1978), for 10 hospitalized male, brain-damaged patients, 10 hospitalized male schizophrenic patients, and 10 normal subjects in a control group, all of whom were approximately 65 yr. old. The derived data indicated, at a statistically significant level, that the visual-searching task was effective in successfully classifying 80% of the brain-damaged sample when compared to the schizophrenic patients and discriminating 90% of the brain-damaged patients from normal subjects.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001925:Brain Damage, Chronic / Q000523:psychology*; D004193:Discrimination Learning; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D019965:Neurocognitive Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D011930:Reaction Time; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D014796:Visual Perception