Caveats in the neuropsychological assessment of African Americans.
This preliminary investigation examined the predictive accuracy of six neuropsychological tests in a population of non-brain-injured African Americans. False positives were unacceptably high on five of the neuropsychological tests administered. These pilot data raise important questions about the utility of neuropsychological test norms with groups dissimilar in sociocultural background to the normative population. These findings are examined in terms of the relative merits of the race-homogenous and race-comparative paradigms and underscore the importance of conducting normative studies that involve ethnic minority populations.
Campbell
Alfonso L
AL
Department of Psychology, Howard University, Washington, DC 20059, USA.
Ocampo
Carlota
C
DeShawn Rorie
Kashemi
K
Lewis
Sonya
S
Combs
Shawn
S
Ford-Booker
Phyllis
P
Briscoe
Juanita
J
Lewis-Jack
Ometha
O
Brown
Andrew
A
Wood
Don
D
Dennis
Gary
G
Weir
Roger
R
Hastings
Alicia
A
D001741:Black or African American; D003469:Culture; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D012016:Reference Values