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Use of the Word Memory Test (WMT), Medical Symptom Validity Test (MSVT) and Nonverbal Medical Symptom Validity Test (NV-MSVT) in Assessment Following Head Injury

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Detection of Malingering during Head Injury Litigation

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The current chapter reviews, in detail, the Word Memory Test (WMT), with a focus on its forensic applications, especially as related to litigation involving traumatic brain injury. Chapter subsections include an overview of the measure’s history, development, structure, reviews of the related head injury and forensic literatures, and commentary on concerns of WMT false positives. Although far less research exists for the Medical Symptom Validity Test and Non-Verbal Medical Symptom Validity Test, they maintain a very similar structure to the WMT and are also reviewed.

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    Published simultaneously as a book chapter: Green, P., Lees-Haley, P., & Allen, III, L. M. (2002). The Word Memory Test and the Validity of Neuropsychological Test Scores. In J. Hom & R. L. Denney (Eds.), Detection of Response Bias in Forensic Neuropsychology (pp. 97–124) Philadelphia, PA: The Haworth Medical Press (now Taylor & Francis Group).

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    Patrick Armistead-Jehle

  2. Missouri Memory Center, Department of Medicine – Neurology, Citizen’s Memorial Healthcare, Bolivar, MO, USA

    Robert L. Denney

  3. VA Mid-Atlantic Mental Illness, Research, Education, and Clinical Center (MA-MIRECC), Salisbury, NC, USA

    Robert D. Shura

  4. Mental Health & Behavioral Sciences Service Line, Salisbury Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Salisbury, NC, USA

    Robert D. Shura

  5. Department of Neurology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA

    Robert D. Shura

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Armistead-Jehle, P., Denney, R.L., Shura, R.D. (2021). Use of the Word Memory Test (WMT), Medical Symptom Validity Test (MSVT) and Nonverbal Medical Symptom Validity Test (NV-MSVT) in Assessment Following Head Injury. In: Horton, Jr., A.M., Reynolds, C.R. (eds) Detection of Malingering during Head Injury Litigation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54656-4_5

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