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The Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status (RBANS), developed by Chris Randolph, Ph.D., is a brief, individually administered test designed to evaluate and document the neuropsychological status of adults aged 20–89 years with suspected neurological deficit. The RBANS is typically administered in less than 30 min. It is composed of 12 subtests (list learning, story memory, figure copy, line orientation, digit span, coding, picture naming, semantic fluency, list recall, list recognition, story recall, and figure recall), yielding scores in the following five cognitive domains: attention, language, visuospatial/constructional abilities, and immediate and delayed memory. In addition, the RBANS includes two imbedded performance validity scales (effort scale and effort index) that have received extensive validation (Burton et al. 2015; Duff et al. 2011; Lippa et al. 2017; Moore et al. 2013).
Psychometric properties of the RBANS are well...
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Burton, R. L., Enright, J., O’Connell, M. E., Lanting, S., & Morgan, D. (2015). RBANS embedded measures of suboptimal effort in dementia: Effort scale has a lower failure rate than the effort index. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 30(1), 1–6.
Duff, S., O’Bryant, B., Moser, B., et al. (2011). The RBANS effort index: Base rates in geriatric samples. Applied Neuropsychology, 18(1), 11–17.
Emmert, N., Schwarz, L., Vander Wal, J., & Gfeller, J. (2016). RBANS factor structure in older adults with suspected cognitive impairment: Evidence for a 5-factor structure. Applied Neuropsychology: Adult, 20, 1–13.
Freeman, S. J., & Makatura, T. J. (2001). Review of the repeatable battery for the assessment of neuropsychological status. In B. S. Plake & J. C. Impara (Eds.), The fourteenth mental measurements yearbook (pp. 1008–1011). Lincoln: Buros Institute of Mental Measurements.
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Lippa, S. M., Lange, R. T., Bhagwat, A., & French, L. M. (2017). Clinical utility of embedded performance validity tests on the repeatable battery for the assessment of neuropsychological status (RBANS) following mild traumatic brain injury. Applied Neuropsychology, 24(1), 73–80.
Moore, R. C., Davine, T., Harmell, A. L., Cardenas, V., Palmer, B. W., & Mausbach, B. T. (2013). Using the repeatable battery for the assessment of neuropsychological status (RBANS) effort index to predict treatment group attendance in patients with schizophrenia. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 19(2), 198–205.
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Randolph, C., Tierney, M. C., Mohr, E., & Chase, T. N. (1998). The repeatable battery for the assessment of neuropsychological status (RBANS): Preliminary clinical validity. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 20, 310–319.
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Schatz, P. (2017). Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status. In: Kreutzer, J., DeLuca, J., Caplan, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56782-2_210-2
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