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.
Department of Psychology, Howard University, Washington, DC 20059, USA.
Alfonso L
AL
Campbell
Carlota
C
Ocampo
Kashemi
K
DeShawn Rorie
Sonya
S
Lewis
Shawn
S
Combs
Phyllis
P
Ford-Booker
Juanita
J
Briscoe
Ometha
O
Lewis-Jack
Andrew
A
Brown
Don
D
Wood
Gary
G
Dennis
Roger
R
Weir
Alicia
A
Hastings
D001741:Black or African American; D003469:Culture; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D012016:Reference Values