Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) is not uncommon among Operation Iraqi Freedom/Operation Enduring Freedom (OIF/OEF) veterans, and many individuals within this group report lingering cognitive difficulties following their injury. For Department of Veterans Affairs clinicians, an accurate assessment of cognitive symptoms is important in providing appropriate clinical care. Although self-assessm...

Neurocognitive response bias is a concern of clinical neuropsychologists, as accurate assessment is not possible if the patient being tested is not putting forth maximum effort during testing. Despite decades of research in this area, very little study has specifically examined the resilience of neuropsychological tests to incomplete effort. When college students asked to feign cognitive defici...

Interpretation of cognitive test profiles is popular in school psychological training and practice but is not supported by research evidence. This special issue contains four studies that provide additional data regarding cognitive test profiles. Consistent with the largely negative research literature, detailed analysis found all four cognitive profile reports lacking reliability, validity, or...

Early and accurate diagnosis of dementia is key to appropriate treatment and management. Clinical assessment, including the use of cognitive screening instruments, remains integral to the diagnostic process. Many cognitive screening instruments have been described, varying in length and hence administration time, but it is not known whether longer tests offer greater diagnostic accuracy than sh...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the effect of virtual reality on the recovery of cognitive impairment in stroke patients. METHOD Twenty-eight patients (11 males and 17 females, mean age 64.2) with cognitive impairment following stroke were recruited for this study. All patients were randomly assigned to one of two groups, the virtual reality (VR) group (n=15) or the control group (n=13). The VR grou...