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Tatjana Novakovic-Agopian1, Anthony J-W Chen, Scott Rome

  • 1Veteran's Administration Medical Center, San Francisco (Drs Novakovic-Agopian, Chen, Abrams, McKim, and Murphy and Mss Rossi and Binder); Veteran's Administration Northern California Health Care System, Martinez (Drs Novakovic-Agopian, Chen, D'Esposito, and Muir and Ms Binder); California Pacific Regional Rehabilitation Center, San Francisco (Drs Novakovic-Agopian and Rome; Mss Rossi, Kennedy, and Castelli; and Mr Garfinkle), University of California, San Francisco (Drs Novakovic-Agopian, Chen, Abrams, and Hills); University of California, Berkeley (Drs Chen and D'Esposito), California; and Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Dr Turner).

The Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation
|October 19, 2012
PubMed
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The Goal Processing Scale (GPS) reliably assesses executive functioning in brain injury patients. Working memory and learning/memory are key to goal-directed function.

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