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The Diagnostic and Predictive Accuracy of the Modified Word Learning Test in Psychiatric Patients Over 65

Winwick Hospital, Warrington

ABSTRACT

The Modified Word Learning Test was administered to 48 senile psychotic patients in 1955, though the results were not examined in relation to diagnosis until a two-year follow-up had been completed.

There was a close correlation between changes in diagnosis and learning test scores. Eleven of the thirteen changes in diagnosis were correctly predicted. Comparing the 1957 diagnosis with learning test scores forty-five of the forty-eight cases were correctly identified when an optimum cut-off point of 30 was used.

The Modified Word Learning Test, based on principles suggested from the vitamin study, appears a valid test of brain-damage at least where the emphasis is on general cortical involvement.