Performance on the Frontal Assessment Battery is sensitive to frontal lobe damage in stroke patients

BMC Neurology

Volumn 13, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Kopp, Bruno ^a,b,c   Rösser, Nina ^a,b   Tabeling, Sandra ^a,d   Stürenburg, Hans J ^d   de Haan, Bianca ^e   Karnath, Hans Otto ^e,f   Wessel, Karl ^a,b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^b Braunschweig Hospital   (Germany)

^c HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^d Klinik Niedersachsen   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Abstraction; Anterior insula; Fluency; Frontal assessment battery (FAB); Response inhibition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR INSULA; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRONTAL ASSESSMENT BATTERY; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; STROKE PATIENT;

AGED; BRAIN INJURIES; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84887510688     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2377-13-179     Document Type: Article

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