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

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). Two hundred and seventy-five healthy individuals with mean age of 66.4 ± 10.6 years-old were evaluated. Mean t...

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Published inArquivos de neuro-psiquiatria Vol. 70; no. 4; pp. 278 - 280
Main Authors Beato, Rogério, Amaral-Carvalho, Viviane, Guimarães, Henrique Cerqueira, Tumas, Vitor, Souza, Carolina Pinto, Oliveira, Guiomar Nascimento de, Caramelli, Paulo
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Portuguese
Published Brazil Academia Brasileira de Neurologia - ABNEURO 01.04.2012
Academia Brasileira de Neurologia (ABNEURO)
Subjects
Adult
Age
Age Factors
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Brazil
Cognition - physiology
cognição
Control Groups
córtex pré-frontal
Data processing
Educational Status
envelhecimento
Executive Function - physiology
Fab
Female
Humans
lobo frontal
Male
Middle Aged
Neuropsychological Tests
NEUROSCIENCES
PSYCHIATRY
Reproducibility of Results
Sex Factors
testes neuropsicológicos
Brazil
cognição
cognition
envelhecimento
prefrontal cortex
testes neuropsicológicos
frontal lobe
lobo frontal
aging
neuropsychological tests
córtex pré-frontal
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Summary: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). 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. 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. 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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ISSN:0004-282X
1678-4227
1678-4227
DOI:10.1590/s0004-282x2012005000009