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A. ELIZUR, Ph.D.

A.M.A. Arch Neurol Psychiatry. 1959;81(6):776-784.

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The psychological examination of the brain-injured patient is now being introduced more and more routinely as an integral part of the general diagnostic procedure in neuropsychiatric clinics.^1,3,18 The usual testing tools applied are visual designs tests (Bender,^4,9,15,26 Ellis,¹¹ Benton^6,8), the tests designed by Goldstein and his co-workers,¹² Wechsler's Intelligence Scale,^{17, 25,31} the Marble Board test,³⁰ Rorschach's technique,^{2,16,19,20-22,27} and Goodenough's Draw-a-Man test.^5,7,13

Important and helpful as all those tests are, they do not easily lend themselves to quantification. The present paper presents a combined test, relatively short (administration and scoring takes about 10 minutes), which lends itself to objective scoring and to qualitative analysis as well.^*

The plan of presentation is as follows: (1) First, the test will be described; (2) a validating study will be reported, and (3) the qualitative aspects of the test and the interpretation of positive test findings . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Tel Aviv, Israel

Footnotes
Submitted for publication July 8, 1958.