The FAB: A frontal assessment battery at bedside
@article{Dubois2000TheFA, title={The FAB: A frontal assessment battery at bedside}, author={Bruno Dubois and Andrea Slachevsky and Irene Litvan and Bernard Pillon}, journal={Neurology}, year={2000}, volume={55}, pages={1621–1626} }
OBJECTIVE
To devise a short bedside cognitive and behavioral battery to assess frontal lobe functions. [] Key Method The authors studied 42 normal subjects and 121 patients with various degrees of frontal lobe dysfunction (PD, n = 24; multiple system atrophy, n = 6; corticobasal degeneration, n = 21; progressive supranuclear palsy, n = 47; frontotemporal dementia, n = 23).
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