Frontal Assessment Battery

Frontal Assessment Battery
PurposeEvaluate 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

  1. ^ Dubois B, Slachevsky A, Litvan I, Pillon B (December 2000). "The FAB: a Frontal Assessment Battery at bedside". Neurology. 55 (11): 1621–6. doi:10.1212/wnl.55.11.1621. PMID 11113214. S2CID 8973171.
  2. ^ a b c Moreira HS, Costa AS, Castro SL, Lima CF, Vicente SG (2017). "Assessing Executive Dysfunction in Neurodegenerative Disorders: A Critical Review of Brief Neuropsychological Tools". Front Aging Neurosci (Review). 9: 369. doi:10.3389/fnagi.2017.00369. PMC 5684643. PMID 29170636.
  3. ^ Hurtado-Pomares M, Carmen Terol-Cantero M, Sánchez-Pérez A, Peral-Gómez P, Valera-Gran D, Navarrete-Muñoz EM (February 2018). "The frontal assessment battery in clinical practice: a systematic review". Int J Geriatr Psychiatry (Review). 33 (2): 237–251. doi:10.1002/gps.4751. PMID 28627719. S2CID 28971287.
  4. ^ Kosaka K, ed. (2017). Dementia with Lewy bodies: clinical and biological aspects (1st ed.). Japan: Springer. pp. 75–76. doi:10.1007/978-4-431-55948-1. ISBN 978-4-431-55948-1. S2CID 45950966.