Frontal assessment battery in a Brazilian sample of healthy controls: normative data

Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria

Rogério Beato²  Viviane Amaral-carvalho²  Henrique Cerqueira Guimarães²  Vitor Tumas¹  Carolina Pinto Souza¹  Guiomar Nascimento De Oliveira¹  Paulo Caramelli² 

[1] ,Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais Faculdade de Medicina Departamento de Clínica Médica

关键词: frontal lobe;    prefrontal cortex;    cognition;    aging;    neuropsychological tests;    lobo frontal;    córtex pré-frontal;    cognição;    envelhecimento;    testes neuropsicológicos;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0004-282X2012005000009

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

OBJECTIVE: To show data on the performance of healthy subjects in the Frontal Assessment Battery (FAB), correlating with gender, age, education, and scores in the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE). METHODS: Two hundred and seventy-five healthy individuals with mean age of 66.4±10.6 years-old were evaluated. Mean total FAB scores were established according to the educational level. RESULTS: Mean total FAB scores according to the educational level were 10.9±2.3, for one to three years; 12.8±2.7, for four to seven years; 13.8±2.2, for eight to 11 years; and 15.3±2.3, for 12 or more years. Total FAB scores correlated significantly with education (r=0.47; p<0.0001) and MMSE scores (r=0.39; p<0.0001). No correlation emerged between FAB scores, age, and gender. CONCLUSION: In this group of healthy subjects, the Brazilian version of the FAB proved to be influenced by the education level, but not by age and gender.

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