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Frontal Assessment Battery

The Frontal Assessment Battery (FAB) is a brief, clinician-administered neuropsychological battery designed to assess frontal lobe function and executive abilities at the bedside. Developed by Dubois and colleagues at the Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris in 2000, the FAB consists of six subtests measuring conceptualization, mental flexibility, motor planning, inhibitory control, and verbal fluency. The FAB is particularly sensitive to frontotemporal dementia, Parkinson's disease with cognitive decline, and other conditions affecting prefrontal function.

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Frontal Assessment Battery
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  • Dubois, B., Slachevsky, A., Litvan, I., & Pillon, B. (2000). The FAB: A Frontal Assessment Battery at bedside. Neurology, 55(11), 1621-1626. · DOI 10.1212/WNL.55.11.1621
  • Slachevsky, A., Litvan, I., Marsiske, M., & Dubois, B. (2004). The FAB: A Frontal Assessment Battery at bedside for dementia and neurological conditions. In Dementia (pp. 123-146). Springer Publishing. · URL
  • Cummings, J. L., & Mega, M. (1994). Neuropsychiatry and behavioral neuroscience. Oxford University Press. · URL
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