Effort, exaggeration and malingering after concussion: Figure 1

Effort, exaggeration and malingering after concussion.

Although most individuals who suffer a mild traumatic brain injury have complete recovery, a number experience persistent symptoms that appear inconsistent with the severity of the injury. Symptoms may be ascribed to malingering, exaggeration or poor effort on cognitive testing. The purpose of this paper is to propose that previously unconsidered factors, informed by social psychology and behav...

Ethical issues associated with the assessment of exaggeration, poor effort, and malingering.

The use of effort tests is standard practice in forensic neuropsychology. There is a tremendous amount of good information available in test manuals and the research literature regarding the proper and responsible use of these tests. However, it is clear that there are numerous ethical issues and considerations associated with the assessment of exaggeration, poor effort, and malingering. Many o...

Brain Connectivity After Concussion

BRAIN CONNECTIVITY AFTER CONCUSSIONby

Effort Testing and Symptom Exaggeration Testing Are Essential in Assessing Patients with Fibromyalgia for Disability.

Headache after concussion.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Chronic post-traumatic headache attributed to mild head injury is a somewhat disputed headache diagnosis. A main object of this study was to assess the validity of this diagnosis by studying the headache pattern of concussed patients that participated in one historic (n = 131) and one prospective cohort (n = 217) study. METHODS Head injury patients were recruited from t...