1. HALSTEADOVA-REITANOVA NEUROPSYCHOLOGICKAÁ BATERIE (HRNB).
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Preiss, Jan
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HALSTEAD-Reitan Neuropsychological Test Battery , *NEUROPSYCHOLOGY , *PSYCHOMETRICS , *SCHIZOPHRENIA , *EYE movements , *EPILEPSY , *CHRONIC diseases , *POISONS , *BRAIN damage , *ACCIDENTS - Abstract
The paper informs about the battery and its development, including recent projects of screening batteries (Horwitz et al., 2008; Vanderlice-Barr et al., 2008). It sums up the discussions about psychometric features of HRNB, about relation of fixed and flexible batteries, and quite flexible test selection, about rightfulness of court expert examinations in the USA. According to the author, the objections of some critics that the HRNB battery is outclassed by the development do not stand. HRNB is being developed due to numerous studies, the norms and interpretations are precised, new procedures originate in its framework. The sample consisting of more than 520 persons was examined by the Czech translation of the method, with useful application among others in schizophrenia (comparison of ill and their healthy twins, relation of neuropsychological tests to monitoring eye-movements and to density of white cortex), in epilepsy (pharmacotherapy and compensation), and in persons with chronic intoxication by toxic substances (toluene, mercury, dioxin). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2009