Sensitivity of the Halstead and Wechsler Test Batteries to Brain Damage: Evidence from Reitan's Original Validation Sample

David W. Loring · Glenn J. Larrabee

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The Halstead-Reitan Battery has been instrumental in the development of neuropsychological practice in the United States. Although Reitan administered both the Wechsler-Bellevue Intelligence Scale and Halstead's test battery when evaluating Halstead's theory of biologic intelligence, the relative sensitivity of each test battery to brain damage continues to be an area of controversy. Because Reitan did not perform direct parametric analysis to contrast group performances, we reanalyze Reitan's original validation data from both Halstead (Reitan, 1955 Reitan , R. M. ( 1955 ). The distribution according to age of a psychologic measure dependent upon organic brain functions . Journal of Gerontology , 10 , 338 – 340 . [INFOTRIEVE] [CSA] [Crossref], [PubMed] , [Google Scholar]) and Wechsler batteries (Reitan, 1959a Reitan , R. M. ( 1959a ). The comparative effects of brain damage on the Halstead impairment index and the Wechsler-Bellevue scale . Journal of Clinical Psychology , 15 , 281 – 285 . [INFOTRIEVE] [CSA] [Crossref], [PubMed], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]) and calculate effect sizes and probability levels using traditional parametric approaches. Eight of the 10 tests comprising Halstead's original Impairment Index, as well as the Impairment Index itself, statistically differentiated patients with unequivocal brain damage from controls. In addition, 13 of 14 Wechsler measures including Full-Scale IQ also differed statistically between groups (Brain Damage Full-Scale IQ = 96.2; Control Group Full Scale IQ = 112.6). We suggest that differences in the statistical properties of each battery (e.g., raw scores vs. standardized scores) likely contribute to classification characteristics including test sensitivity and specificity.

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