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| The Neuropsychological Exam | |
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| Disclosure of Test Names Prior to Exam | |
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| Payment | |
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| Dual Relationships: Expert and Treater | |
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| Third-Party Observers | |
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| Consent Forms | |
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| The Interview | |
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| The Testing Process | |
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| Assessment of Neurocognitive Symptom Validity | |
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| Terminology | |
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| Prevalence of Negative Response Bias in Cognitive Testing | |
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| How Important Is Response Bias in a Neuropsychological Exam? | |
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| Can Negative Response Bias Be Adequately Identified through Interview and/or Standard Cognitive Tests? | |
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| Strategies for Identification of Noncredible Performance | |
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| Measures of Response Bias | |
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| Remaining Strategies for Identifying Noncredible Performance | |
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| Assessment of Symptom Validity through Psychological Symptom Overreport Measures | |
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| M Test | |
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| Structured Interview of Reported Symptoms | |
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| Structured Interview of Reported Symptoms-2 | |
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| Miller Forensic Assessment of Symptoms Test | |
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| Structured Inventory of Malingered Symptomatology | |
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| Morel Emotional Numbing Test | |
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| Assessment of Symptom Validity through Psychodiagnostic and PTSD Symptom Measures | |
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| Personality Inventories | |
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| Projective Techniques | |
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| PTSD Symptom Measures | |
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| Test Scoring/Interpretation and the Neuropsychological Report | |
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| Test Scoring | |
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| Important Aspects of Interpretation and Reporting | |
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| Sample Report of a Noncredible Patient | |
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| Seven Common Flaws in Forensic Neuropsychological Reports | |
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| Failure to Assess Appropriately for Negative Response Bias | |
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| Use of Inappropriate Tests or Norms | |
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| Failure to Draw Conclusions Consistent with Published Research | |
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| Failure to Consider All Possible Etiologies | |
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| Overinterpretation of Lowered Scores | |
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| Claiming That Low Cognitive Scores Document Brain Injury | |
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| Misinterpretation of the MMPI-2/MMPI-2-RF | |
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| Conclusions: What to Check for in a Neuropsychological Report | |
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| The Special Problem of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in the Forensic Neuropsychological Evaluation | |
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| Neuropsychological Outcome in mTBI | |
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| The "Mythic" 10-15% Who Do Not Recover | |
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| Determination of Loss of Consciousness | |
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| Determination of Anterograde and Retrograde Amnesia | |
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| The Concern with Patient Self-Report of Postconcussion Symptoms | |
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| Neuroimaging and Neuropathology in mTBI | |
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| Persistent Cognitive Abnormalities Used as Evidence of Move Severe Brain Injury | |
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| Does Intoxication at the Time of Injury Lead to Worse Cognitive Outcome? | |
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| What about the Impact of Older Age on Recovery in mTBI? | |
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| What about mTBI in Children/Adolescents? | |
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| What about the Impact of Repeated Concussion? | |
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| Is There Increased Risk for Dementia after mTBI? | |
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| Is there Anosagnosia in mTBI? | |
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| Are There Long-Term Psychiatric Symptoms after mTBI? | |
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| Relationship between Claimed PTSD and mTBI Symptoms | |
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| Are Long-Term Physical Symptoms Associated with mTBI? | |
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| Processes and Disorders Accounting for Long-Term Symptom Report in mTBI | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Testimony: Protecting Your Data and Conclusions from Attack | |
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| Your Qualifications and Practice versus Those of Opposing Experts | |
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| Your Examination | |
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| Your Conclusions | |
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| Maintaining Test Security in the Testimony Process | |
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| Closing Comments | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |