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Galveston Orientation and Amnesia Test

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The Galveston Orientation and Amnesia Test (GOAT) is a 10-item scale that was designed to assess orientation and posttraumatic amnesia following traumatic brain injury (Levin et al. 1975, 1979, 1982). Posttraumatic amnesia, which is the state of disorientation and confusion following head injury, includes both anterograde and retrograde amnesia. The GOAT provides an assessment of anterograde amnesia (the memory of events that occurred immediately before brain injury) through patient recall of the event immediately preceding the injury and details regarding the event. Questions about patient recall and detailed description of the first event remembered following injury are also included to assess retrograde amnesia (memory of events immediately following traumatic brain injury). Orientation items include assessment of personal (name, city of birth, city of current residence), spatial (present location, date of admission, mode of transportation to treatment...

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  • Levin, H. S., O'Donnell, V. M., & Grossman, R. G. (1979). The Galveston Orientation and Amnesia Test: A practical scale to assess cognition after head injury. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 167, 675–684.

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  1. Department of Psychology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV, USA

    Megan Becker & Daniel N. Allen

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Becker, M., Allen, D.N. (2017). Galveston Orientation and Amnesia Test. In: Kreutzer, J., DeLuca, J., Caplan, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56782-2_184-3

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