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[FAB: a preliminar Spanish application of the frontal assessment battery to 11 groups of patients]
A Rodriguez del Alamo1, M J Catalán Alonso, L Carrasco Marín
1Consulta de Neuropsicología, Clinica Sierra, Guadarrama, España. alfredodelalamo@navegalia.com
Introduction:
We consider in this paper the applicability of the FAB in Spain, a battery at bedside devised to assess frontal lobe function and able to identify a dysexecutive syndrome, which takes few minutes to administer, and useful for neuropsychological diagnosis in diseases involving frontal lobe dysfunctions.
Patients And Methods:
We study dual application of FAB and Folstein s MMSE to 195 subjects belonging to 11 subgroups (controls, neurodegenerative disorders and psychiatric conditions), and they were related to: cortical/subcortical normality, cortical/subcortical cognitive impairment, or cortical/subcortical dementia.
Statistics:
mean, standard deviation, U test (p< 0.05) and Pearson s correlation index.
Conclusions:
Data suggest FAB reflects in Spanish environment the reality of frontosubcortical deterioration in studied groups. FAB and MMSE showed a variable grade of positive lineal correlation in different diseases.
