Frontal Assessment Battery to Evaluate Frontal Lobe Dysfunction in ALS Patients
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Frontal assessment battery to evaluate frontal lobe dysfunction in ALS patients.
BACKGROUND Assessment of frontal lobe impairment in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a matter of great importance, since it often causes ALS patients to decrease medication and nursing compliance, thus shortening their survival time. METHODS The frontal assessment battery (FAB) is a short and rapid method for assessing frontal executive functions. We investigated the applicability of th...
متن کاملPerformance on the Frontal Assessment Battery is sensitive to frontal lobe damage in stroke patients
BACKGROUND The Frontal Assessment Battery (FAB) is a brief battery of six neuropsychological tasks designed to assess frontal lobe function at bedside [Neurology 55:1621-1626, 2000]. The six FAB tasks explore cognitive and behavioral domains that are thought to be under the control of the frontal lobes, most notably conceptualization and abstract reasoning, lexical verbal fluency and mental fle...
متن کاملThe frontal assessment battery as a tool for evaluation of frontal lobe dysfunction in patients with Parkinson disease.
BACKGROUND Frontal-type cognitive deficits are common in patients with Parkinson disease (PD). The Frontal Assessment Battery (FAB) was developed to assess frontal lobe functions. However, many studies found that it also correlated with a variety of other general neuropsychological tests. OBJECTIVES To evaluate whether the FAB has an added value over the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) a...
متن کاملConfabulation and frontal lobe dysfunction.
A patient is reported who displayed marked confabulation after frontal lobe damage, and whose pattern of performance on memory tests was not typically amnesic. He initially displayed both "fantastic" and "momentary" confabulation, but several months later showed only "momentary" confabulation, which was apparent on direct questioning. This change in type of confabulation was paralleled by impro...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences / Journal Canadien des Sciences Neurologiques
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0317-1671,2057-0155
DOI: 10.1017/s0317167100011409