Citation

Wilde MC, Boake C, Sherer M. Appl. Neuropsychol. 2000; 7(4): 208-214.

Affiliation

Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Texas-Houston Medical School, Houston, Texas, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2000, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1207/S15324826AN0704_2

PMID

11296683

Abstract

Final broken configuration errors on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised (WAIS-R; Wechsler, 1981) Block Design subtest were examined in 50 moderate and severe nonpenetrating traumatically brain injured adults. Patients were divided into left (n = 15) and right hemisphere (n = 19) groups based on a history of unilateral craniotomy for treatment of an intracranial lesion and were compared to a group with diffuse or negative brain CT scan findings and no history of neurosurgery (n = 16). The percentage of final broken configuration errors was related to injury severity, Benton Visual Form Discrimination Test (VFD; Benton, Hamsher, Varney, & Spreen, 1983) total score and the number of VFD rotation and peripheral errors. The percentage of final broken configuration errors was higher in the patients with right craniotomies than in the left or no craniotomy groups, which did not differ. Broken configuration errors did not occur more frequently on designs without an embedded grid pattern. Right craniotomy patients did not show a greater percentage of broken configuration errors on nongrid designs as compared to grid designs.

Language: en