• DOI:10.1136/jnnp-2015-311917
Corpus ID: 3545248

FRONTIER Executive Screen: a brief executive battery to differentiate frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease

@article{Leslie2015FRONTIERES,
  title={FRONTIER Executive Screen: a brief executive battery to differentiate frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease},
  author={F. Leslie and D. Foxe and N. Daveson and E. Flannagan and J. Hodges and O. Piguet},
  journal={Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry},
  year={2015},
  volume={87},
  pages={831 - 835}
}

F. Leslie, D. Foxe, +3 authors O. Piguet

Published 2015

Medicine

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry

Background and objective Executive dysfunctions are a key clinical feature of behavioural-variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD). Such deficits are also found in Alzheimer's disease (AD), making the differentiation between these two diseases difficult at times, particularly in the absence of extensive cognitive assessments. To address this issue, we developed the FRONTIER Executive Screen (FES), which combines three abbreviated measures of verbal fluency, inhibitory control and working memory… CONTINUE READING

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