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BOOK AND TEST REVIEW BOOKANDTESTREVIEWSBOOKANDTESTREVIEWS
Book and Test Review Editor: Nick A. DeFilippis
L. Artiola i Fortuny, D. H. Romo, R. K. Heaton,
& R. E. Pardee, III, Manual de Normas y
Procedimientos para la Batera Neuropsicolgica
en Espaol, m Press, Tucson, AZ, 1999
Assessment in neuropsychology requires standard-
ized, validated, and sensitive instruments. The credibil-
ity of neuropsychology and the quality and utility of
theneuropsychological reports and research are based on
the use of adequate tools and appropriate norms. Great
effort has been made since the development of the first
tests and test batteries to provide reliable and updated
normative data that take into account age, education,
gender,intelligence,and,toalesserextent,culture.Stan-
dardized neuropsychological instruments for Span-
ish-speakingpopulations, as well as forother languages
and cultures, are still sparse or lacking. The authors of
this Manual de Normas y Procedimientos para la
Batera Neuropsicolgica en Espaol,concerned with
the lack of normative data for neuropsychological tests
in Spanish-speaking populations, have developed a
Spanish adaptation and normalization of some of the
most frequently administered neuropsychological tests
in current clinical andresearch practice.They have con-
sidered separately two geographically and culturally
distinct Spanish-speaking regions: frontier Mexico and
the United States and metropolitan Madrid, Spain.
The battery of tests selected, well known for their
neuropsychological diagnostic values, cover a range of
neuropsychological domains, including attention, ver-
balandvisuallearningandmemory, andexecutive func-tions.
Specifically, the tests include adaptations and
norms of the Digit Span Test, Spatial Span Test, Story
Memory Test, California Verbal Learning Test, Figure
Memory Test, Wisconsin Card Sorting Test, and Con-
trolled Oral Word AssociationTest. Theset includes the
manual, written in Spanish, and five test booklets. The
first chapter of the manual describes the methodology
employedin theconstructionandadaptationofeachtest.
In the second chapter the authors introduce and define
the characteristics of both sample populations, the
statistical analysis performed to study the demographic
factors,andthecriteriatoadjustscoresandtheirvalidity.
Thethirdchapterpresents thegeneral conditionsneeded
to perform the exams, the instructions, and the method-
ologicalissuesinvolvedinadministeringandscoringthe
tests.The fourthchapter includes three case reports that
illustratetheapplicationofthedemographicadjustment.
Includedin theappendixes aretheconversion tablesandthe normative
data from both of the different regions
considered, subdivided by age and level of education.
Examplesof someitemsof theverbalandvisualmemory
testsarealsoincluded.Thebookletsincludetheadminis-
trationinstructionsandasummarytablefortheresults.
This work represents a well-produced, careful adap-
tation and normalization study, translated into Spanish,
of several of the main tests commonly used in neuro-
logical andpsychiatric patient populations.The authors
do an admirable job of translating and adapting the lin-
guistic content of the verbal items and instructions of
the tests, especially considering the linguistic and
sociocultural differences between several Span-
ish-speaking regions and countries. In addition, they
provide normative data from two different Span-
ish-speaking populationsfrontier Mexico and the
United States and Madrid, Spainand provide norms
across a broad range of ages (from 18 to more than 65)
and educational levels (from 0 to more than 16 years of
education). This manual is a valuable contribution to
the current neuropsychological assessment of Spanish
speakers. It will be of interest to clinicians and re-
searchers in neuropsychology who work with such in-dividuals.
This excellent adaptation and normalization
study begins to fill a gap and might constitute a refer-
ence for neuropsychologists who work with Span-
ish-speaking patients.
Maria Matar, Department of Psychiatry and Clinical
Psychobiology, University of Barcelona Paseo Vall
dHebron 171, 08035 Barcelona, Spain
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