The ANAM battery is far too sensitive for a general application like
this. In addition, the base rate of TBI among
returning soldiers is so low that a screening with a test like this will
be far too expensive for what it is intended to do. The obvious
approach is to only test soldiers who have some history of head injury,
especially those who were rendered unconscious. Do they really expect
that soldiers serving in low risk assignments will come back with a
brain injury and PTSD? The other thing they must include is an
assessment of malingering. The military disability support system is
very ripe for abuse. It is a waste of tax dollars to conduct these
assessments without checks on malingering.
Mike Williams
Drexel University
On 6/15/10 1:00 AM, Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) digest
wrote:
> Subject: U.S. Tax Dollars at Work Part 982,542: Pretest But Don't Posttest
for Brain Injury
> From: "Mike Palij"<[email protected]>
> Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 19:33:32 -0400
> X-Message-Number: 7
>
> A news story is making the round on how the U.S. Pentagon
> initiated a program of neuropsychological testing using pretest
> (i.e., prior to deployment to combat areas) and posttest (i.e.,
> return from deployment) but apparently has stopped administering
> the posttest because its false positive rate is too high. For one
> source see:
>
>
http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtIH/EMIHC267/333/8014/1369167.html?d=dmtICNNews
>
> The test in question is called the "Automated Neuropsychological
> Assessment Metris" or ANAM. Anyone familiar with it?
>
> -Mike Palij
> New York University
> [email protected]
>
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