Utility of the Personality Assessment Inventory in detecting feigned Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): The Feigned Adult ADHD index.

Objective: The high potential for secondary gain among college students presenting for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) evaluations highlights the need for psychometrically sound embedded validity indicators. The purpose of this study was to develop new validity indicators specific to feigned ADHD for the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI) and compare them to preexisting imbedded PAI validity measures.

Method: PAI scales that were theoretically related to feigned ADHD were evaluated.

Cognitive intra-individual variability has a positive association with traumatic brain injury severity and suboptimal effort.

This study examined intra-individual variability in a large sample (n = 629) of individuals with a history of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) or TBI referred for neuropsychological evaluation. Variability was assessed using the overall test battery mean standard deviation (OTBM SD). We found a negative linear relation between OTBM and OTBM SD (r = -.

Detection of malingering in mild traumatic brain injury with the Conners' Continuous Performance Test-II.

Classification accuracy for the detection of malingered neurocognitive dysfunction (MND) in mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) is examined for two selected measures from the Conners' Continuous Performance Test-II (CPT-II) using criterion-groups validation. Individual and joint classification accuracies are presented for Omissions and Hit Reaction Time Standard Error across a range of scores comparing mild TBI malingering (n = 27), mild TBI not-malingering (n = 31), and moderate-to-severe (M/S) TBI not-malingering (n = 24) groups. At cutoffs associated with at least 95% specificity in both mild and M/S TBI, sensitivity to MND in mild TBI was 30% for Omissions, 41% for Hit Reaction Time Standard Error, and 44% using both indicators.