Malingering in mild traumatic brain injury

Abstract

Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) and its congnitive sequelae (or lack thereof) are a source of controversy within the field of neurcpsychology. A primary reason for this controversy is that research examining neurocongi- tive function in mTBI historically has failed to include performance validity tests (PVTs), which resulted in individuals not performing to true capability being retained in study samples. This chapter summarizes newer research on cognitive outcome in mTBI, and illustrates use of miltiple PVTs and personality test data in the identification of noncredible test takers.