How useful is the WAIS-R in closed head injury assessment?

• Published in: Journal of clinical psychology 1992-03, Vol.48 (2), p.219-225
• Main Authors: Paniak, Christopher E., Silver, Kim, Finlayson, M. Alan J., Tuff, Lawrence P.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Adult; Amnesia - diagnosis; Amnesia - psychology; Biological and medical sciences; Brain; Brain Concussion - diagnosis; Brain Concussion - psychology; Brain Damage, Chronic - diagnosis; Brain Damage, Chronic - psychology; Brain Edema - diagnosis; Brain Edema - psychology; Cerebral Hemorrhage - diagnosis; Cerebral Hemorrhage - psychology; Dominance, Cerebral - physiology; Female; Head Injuries, Closed - diagnosis; Head Injuries, Closed - psychology; Humans; Injuries; Intelligence; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Male; Medical sciences; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychometrics; Psychometrics. Diagnostic aid systems; Psychopathology. Psychiatry; Social research; Techniques and methods; Tests; Tomography, X-Ray Computed; Wechsler Scales - statistics & numerical data
• ISSN: 0021-9762; 1097-4679
• DOI: 10.1002/1097-4679(199203)48:2<219::AID-JCLP2270480212>3.0.CO;2-K

The present study examined whether head‐injury assessment findings based on the WAIS could be generalized to the WAIS‐R. It also investigated whether WAIS‐R findings from individuals with focal mass lesions could be generalized to closed‐head‐injured patients with mass lesions. Subjects were 71 CHI patients assessed with the WAIS‐R an average of 1.38 years post‐injury. Results were not always consistent with previous research. Patients with left or right mass lesion loci did not exhibit previously reported Verbal IQ‐Performance IQ discrepancies.