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Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status

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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.

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  1. Department of Psychology, Saint Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Philip Schatz

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  1. Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA

    Jeffrey S. Kreutzer

  2. Kessler Foundation, Pleasant Valley Way, West Orange, NJ, USA

    John DeLuca

  3. Independent Practice, Wynnewood, PA, USA

    Bruce Caplan

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Schatz, P. (2018). Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status. In: Kreutzer, J.S., DeLuca, J., Caplan, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57111-9_210

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