PURPOSE This study was conducted to select a neuropsychological battery that correlated with driving simulator skills, thus enabling practitioners to provide information to older patients and their families about driving risks. METHODS The study was conducted in two phases. In Phase 1, a survey inquiring as to the kinds of neuropsychological tests currently used to screen patients for driving...

OBJECTIVE To use a practical battery of eight neuropsychological tests for the detection of an association between amateur boxing and chronic traumatic encephalopathy. DESIGN A controlled prospective neuropsychological study over a 15-18-month period. SETTING Dublin, Ireland. March 1992 to September 1993. PARTICIPANTS Twenty experienced actively competing amateur boxers and 20 controls ma...

Accepted 21 January 2003 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . T he dual roles of neuropsychological testing in sports concussion are well established. Neuropsychological assessment may aid understanding of the brain structures and processes underlying concussion and the postconcussion syndrome. Although this is a primary goal of neuropsychologists working in sport concussion, a more im...