The tests also do a very good job of picking up on malingering too so make sure and give it real effort.

There is one test that they give you--it just seems like a simple memory test--that I later learned was really a test of malingering. It is designed to be such that no one should make more than "x" number of mistakes and if you do, then they can consider it an indication of malingering.

I understand your worry; I would bet most of us do! We have all struggled with a deep distrust of doctors making the proper diagnoses.

The important thing, again, is just give it your best. There are so many different tests administered, it helps the evaluator check the results against each other to come to a sound conclusion.

For me, I felt much like you because I knew my intellect was intact. After reading Brainlashed I was afraid that would work against me but still gave it my best...

And because I did, the results were surprising in exactly what the doc picked up on. The testing showed a very superior intellect (uh, that is the official terminology--I promise Im not trying to brag!) but showed impaired attentional skills among other things.

You see, with me it was this big disparity between results of tests of my intellect and tests of my concentration skills that confirmed for the doctors the problem I already saw.

One other piece of advice that others may add to -- but don't "wrap yourself" in your neuropsych eval results once you get the report. First, it isn't guranteed to pick up on all of your problems. Second, it's not a measure of what kind of recovery you can expect. I have continually forgotten both of those things.