APS
2024 APS Annual Convention · 2024
Assessing for a Neuromotor Marker of Malingering in Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
- Jordan Price
UNCW - Christopher Beasley
University of North Carolina WIlmington - Madison Hamilton
University of North Carolina at Wilmington - Michelle Messer
University of North Carolina at Wilmington - Brianna Morris
University of North Carolina at Wilmington - Evan Fisher
The University of North Carolina at Wilmington - Kay Granfield
University of North Carolina at Wilmington - Brittany Vincent
The University of North Carolina at Wilmington - Len Lecci
The University of North Carolina at Wilmington
Abstract
We assessed for indicators of malingering of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) using gait. Simulators of mTBI had more pronounced deficits on several gait variables than clinical mTBI and normal controls, with effect sizes upwards of d= .983. This supports the potential of gait as a method of identifying malingering.
Psychopathology