Frontal Assessment Battery (FAB) is a tool that permits quickly (10 minutes) evaluating the executive functions located in the frontal lobes. It consists of six tests that correspond to each specific cognitive or behavioral domain related to the frontal lobes. These domains include: The Frontal Assessment Battery (FAB) is a tool that permits quickly (10 minutes) evaluating the executive functions located in the frontal lobes. It consists of six tests that correspond to each specific cognitive or behavioral domain related to the frontal lobes. These domains include:

1. Similarities (conceptualization): Explores abstract reasoning by presenting pairs of objects within the same semantic category.
2. Lexical fluidity (Mental flexibility): Evaluates self-organization, strategy and change by mentioning as many words as possible that begin with a certain letter.
3. Motor series: Explores the capacity for motor programming and planning by carrying out the Luria test (fist-edge-palm) with the dominant hand.
4. Contradictory instructions: The subject evaluated must give a response to the signal of the examiner; it is an exploration of the sensitivity to interferences.
5. GO-NO-GO: Dominion, inhibitory control and impulsivity is explored using the same signals as in the prior test,  but with a different verbal order from the examiner.
6. Grasp behavior: Explores the domain of independence in the environment by evaluating the tendency to spontaneously adhere to it.

The maximum score of the FAB is 18 and is obtained using the sum of the six tests, which are scored from 0 to 3. This tool was designed by Dubois and colleagues and adapted to Spanish and validated among patients with Parkinson’s disease by Miriam Hurtado-Pomares and colleagues.

Link to the validation in parkinson: Hurtado-Pomares M, Terol-Cantero MC, Sánchez-Pérez A, Leiva-Santana C, Peral-Gómez P, Valera-Gran D, Navarrete-Muñoz EM. Measuring executive dysfunction in Parkinson disease: Reliability and validity of the Spanish version of Frontal Assessment Battery (FAB-E). PLoS One. 2018 Nov 19;13(11):e0207698. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0207698. eCollection 2018.

Link to Spanish adptatiton: Hurtado-Pomares M. Valera-Gran D, Sánchez-Pérez A, Peral-Gómez P, Navarrete-Muñoz EM, Terol-Cantero MC. Adaptation of the Spanish version of the Frontal Assessment Battery for detection of executive dysfunction. Medicina Clinica. 2020

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