Welcome to Green's Publishing
Paul Green, Ph.D., Clinical Neuropsychologist
Fellow, National Academy of Neuropsychology
Green's Publishing produces effort tests which help in discriminating between genuine memory impairment versus feigned memory impairment or results that are unreliable for some other reason (e.g. lack of engagement in testing). These tests are used by neuropsychologists in 23 countries and 49 States of the USA. They are available in many different languages. The author, Dr. Paul Green, has published many papers in professional journals, reporting the extensive research on which the tests are based.
In keeping with the fact that this is science, not religion, there are many independent replication studies, as shown under the "References" button above and under "News" on the bar at the left of this page.
High specificity even in dementia
Do you wish you could look at a simple chart and immediately see that case 1 failed an effort test because of genuinely severe impairment, whereas case 2 shows unreliable and invalid test data? Can you easily see the difference between poor effort versus dementia? Now it is possible!
Q) Which effort tests can achieve 95% or 100% specificity in dementia and also in developmentally disabled children?
A) Most effort tests cannot do so. The outcome of such tests (e.g. TOMM, CARB, ASTM) is only a pass or a fail and many people with dementia cannot pass. Lowering the cut-off does not solve the problem. However, the WMT, MSVT & NV-MSVT produce specific profiles in dementia, which are not the same as those arising from poor effort.
Using the WMT, MSVT and NV-MSVT in combination does not lower specificity in those with genuine very severe impairment (e.g. dementia) but it enhances sensitivity to poor effort. For more details please see this: http://www.wordmemorytest.com/interpretations.php and this 95%-100% specificity in dementia
Languages
The WMT may be given in any of 13 languages; English, German, Spanish, French, Dutch, Mainland Portuguese, Danish, Hebrew, Turkish and Russian with Mandarin, Italian and Brazilian Portuguese as additional oral form options. In the WMT program, just choose OPTIONS, CHANGE LANGUAGE.
The MSVT is in 10 languages: English, German, Dutch, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish and "Nonsense language".
The NV-MSVT may be given in any language. It is a nonverbal task and there are only images on screen (no words). This 6 minute computerized test is more sensitive than the TOMM. Nearly everyone who fails TOMM will also fail the NV-MSVT. Many will pass TOMM and fail the NV-MSVT. In these cases, the NV-MSVT profile can only be explained based on invalid data.
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Time zones
We are in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Before you call, find out what time it is in our office using this world time clock:-
http://www.worldtimeserver.com/worldclock.aspx
The WMT program includes data from more than 80 comparison groups. The program makes it easy for you to contrast scores in a single case with any of the comparison groups, using graphs and report tables.
If you want to know whether the WMT Free Recall score in a single case, for example, is significantly different from the mean score from a particular group of interest, you may use SINGLIMS.EXE. Professor Crawford from the University of Aberdeen has kindly allowed me to list the link to his program called SINGLIMS.EXE. Click here to download and run SINGLIMS.EXE (452KB).
