Assessment of Feigned Cognitive Impairment

Kyle Brauer Boone, PhD, ABPP, is Professor-in-Residence in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, and Director of Neuropsychological Services and Training in the Department of Psychiatry at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, California. She has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles in professional journals in the area of neuropsychological assessment and is a coauthor of Handbook of Normative Data for Neuropsychological Assessment. Dr. Boone has also published two tests used to assess for effort on neuropsychological exams: the b Test and the Dot Counting Test.

I. Symptom Fabrication: Social and Biological Perspectives

1. Feigning of Physical, Psychiatric, and Cognitive Symptoms: Examples from History, the Arts, and Animal Behavior, David C. Stone and Kyle Brauer Boone

2. Functional Neuroimaging of Deception and Malingering, Lisle R. Kingery and David J. Schretlen

II. Cognitive Effort Assessment Techniques and Strategies

3. A Reconsideration of the Slick et al. (1999) Criteria for Malingered Neurocognitive Dysfunction, Kyle Brauer Boone

4. Spoiled for Choice: Making Comparisons between Forced-Choice Effort Tests, Paul Green

5. Non-Forced-Choice Measures to Detect Noncredible Cognitive Performance, Stephen R. Nitch and David M. Glassmire

6. Intelligence Tests as Measures of Effort, Talin Babikian and Kyle Brauer Boone

7. Use of Standard Memory Tests to Detect Suspect Effort, Po H. Lu, Steven A. Rogers, and Kyle Brauer Boone

8. Validity Indicators within Executive Function Measures: Use and Limits in Detection of Malingering, Jerry J. Sweet and Nathaniel W. Nelson

9. Use of Motor and Sensory Tests as Measures of Effort, Ginger Arnold and Kyle Brauer Boone

10. The MMPI-2 Fake Bad Scale in Detection of Noncredible Brain Injury Claims, Manfred F. Greiffenstein, David Fox, and Paul R. Lees-Haley

III. Cognitive Effort Testing in Various Clinical Populations

11. Malingering Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: Behavioral Approaches Used by Both Malingering Actors and Probable Malingerers, John E. Meyers

12. Including Measures of Effort in Neuropsychological Assessment of Pain- and Fatigue-Related Medical Disorders: Clinical and Research Implications, Julie Suhr and Brad Spickard

13. The Impact of Psychiatric Disorders on Cognitive Symptom Validity Test Scores, Hope E. Goldberg, Carla Back-Madruga, and Kyle Brauer Boone

14. Identification of Feigned Mental Retardation, Tara L. Victor and Kyle Brauer Boone

15. Symptom Validity Tests in the Epilepsy Clinic, David J. Williamson, Daniel L. Drane, and Elizabeth S. Stroup

16. The Use of Effort Tests in the Context of Actual versus Feigned Attention-Deficit /Hyperactivity Disorder and Learning Disability, Kimberly Alfano and Kyle Brauer Boone

17. Cognitive Complaints in Multiple Chemical Sensitivity and Toxic Mold Syndrome, Robert J. McCaffrey and Christine L. Yantz

18. The Use of Effort Tests in Ethnic Minorities and in Non-English-Speaking and English as a Second Language Populations, Xavier F. Salazar, Po H. Lu, Johnny Wen, and Kyle Brauer Boone

19. Assessment of Malingering in Criminal Forensic Neuropsychological Settings, Robert L. Denney

20. Future Directions in Effort Assessment, Martin L. Rohling and Kyle Brauer Boone