Medicine:Frontal Assessment Battery
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Short description: Test to evaluate executive function
| Frontal Assessment Battery | |
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| Purpose | Evaluate executive function |
The Frontal Assessment Battery (FAB) is a short screening test to evaluate executive function (EF).
Format
FAB is a battery of tests, consisting of six subtests, that takes about 10 minutes and is designed as a short bedside assessment of executive function.[1][2]
Applications
FAB is useful in the differential diagnosis of neurological diseases[3] including Parkinson's disease, corticobasal degeneration, frontotemporal dementias, Alzheimer's disease, Huntington's disease, progressive supranuclear palsy,[2] and dementia with Lewy bodies.[4]
Development
FAB was developed by Dubois et al. in 2000 and became a widely used tool.[2]
References
- ↑ "The FAB: a Frontal Assessment Battery at bedside". Neurology 55 (11): 1621–6. December 2000. doi:10.1212/wnl.55.11.1621. PMID 11113214.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Assessing Executive Dysfunction in Neurodegenerative Disorders: A Critical Review of Brief Neuropsychological Tools". Front Aging Neurosci 9: 369. 2017. doi:10.3389/fnagi.2017.00369. PMID 29170636.
- ↑ "The frontal assessment battery in clinical practice: a systematic review". Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 33 (2): 237–251. February 2018. doi:10.1002/gps.4751. PMID 28627719.
- ↑ Dementia with Lewy bodies: clinical and biological aspects (1st ed.). Japan: Springer. 2017. pp. 75–76. doi:10.1007/978-4-431-55948-1. ISBN 978-4-431-55948-1.
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