The clinical utility of the hand-held tachistoscope

Neil E. Pauker, Marshal F. Folstein, Timothy H. Moran

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Abstract

A hand-held tachistoscope for use at the bedside was constructed and used to examine 40 normal controls and 170 psychiatric and neurological patients. This instrument quickly provided an index (perception time) which distinguished between idiopathic psychiatric illness and delirium, and between cortical and subcortical neuropathology. Slow perception time was seen in patients with delirium or cortical neuropathology.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)126-129
Number of pages4
JournalJournal of Nervous and Mental Disease
Volume166
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 1978

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Psychiatry and Mental health

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