"Malingering" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Simulation of symptoms of illness or injury with intent to deceive in order to obtain a goal, e.g., a claim of physical illness to avoid jury duty.
| Descriptor ID |
D008306
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| MeSH Number(s) |
F01.145.126.925
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2004 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2007 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2012 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2017 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Malingering" by people in Profiles.
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Impact of Demographic and Deployment Related Factors on Structured Inventory of Malingered Symptomatology Performance in Veterans and Service Members. Arch Clin Neuropsychol. 2025 Oct 19; 40(7):1366-1373.
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Cognitive "success" in the setting of performance validity test failure. J Clin Exp Neuropsychol. 2024 02; 46(1):46-54.
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Validity of informant report interpretations: Role of examinee performance and symptom invalidity. Psychol Assess. 2022 Feb; 34(2):125-138.
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The Severe Impairment Profile: A Conceptual Shift. Arch Clin Neuropsychol. 2018 Mar 01; 33(2):238-246.
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The effects of symptom information coaching on the feigning of adult ADHD. Psychol Assess. 2017 Dec; 29(12):1429-1436.
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Performance on the Test of Memory Malingering is predicted by the number of errors on its first 10 items on an inpatient epilepsy monitoring unit. Clin Neuropsychol. 2018 04; 32(3):468-478.
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Relative Utility of Performance and Symptom Validity Tests. Arch Clin Neuropsychol. 2016 Feb; 31(1):18-22.
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A Factor Analytic Approach to the Validation of the Word Memory Test and Test of Memory Malingering as Measures of Effort and Not Memory. Arch Clin Neuropsychol. 2015 Aug; 30(5):369-76.
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Discriminating among ADHD alone, ADHD with a comorbid psychological disorder, and feigned ADHD in a college sample. Clin Neuropsychol. 2014; 28(7):1182-96.
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Diagnostic utility of the Structured Inventory of Malingered Symptomatology for identifying psychogenic non-epileptic events. Epilepsy Behav. 2012 Aug; 24(4):439-44.