The Rey-Osterrieth Complex as a diagnostic measure of neuropsychological outcome of brain injury.

The Rey-Osterrieth Complex was devised to investigate perceptual organization and visual memory in brain-damaged patients. Osterrieth analyzed the patient's method of procedure as well as his specific copying errors, but the test is most commonly regarded as a measure of visual memory. In our work with traumatically brain-injured patients we found the Rey-Osterrieth Complex useful as a high load examiner of disorders of cognitive process. In our application of the test the drawing quality in the copy session is seen as being related to the kind of disorder, while the neuropsychological deficit is emphasized by the drawing quality in the memory session. The present paper is concerned with different thinking disorders as they are expressed in both the copy and memory parts of the Rey-Osterrieth Complex.