THE PSYCHOMETRIC LOCALIZATION OF BRAIN LESIONS: THE DIFFERENTIAL EFFECT OF FRONTAL AND PARIETAL LESIONS ON MMPI PROFILES.

The article reports on the psychometric localization of brain lesions. This paper is the outgrowth of a psychometric study of patients who had suffered focal brain damage and in whom the locus of the lesion had been ascertained either by surgery, e.g., in cases of brain tumor, or, in gun shot wound cases, by x-ray demonstration of metallic foreign bodies in the brain. The analysis described herein was performed to test the hypothesis that there are no significant differences between the Minnesota multiphasic profiles of the patients with frontal lobe lesions and the profiles of those patients with lesions involving the parietal lobe.