title: Disorders in planning and strategy application in frontal lobe lesion patients.
abstract: The aim of this study was to investigate deficits in planning ability using an adapted version of the Modified Six Elements Test, from the Behavioral Assessment of the Dysexecutive Syndrome-BADS [Wilson, B. A., Alderman, N., Burgess, P. W., Emslie, H., & Evans, J. J. (1996). Behavioural Assessment of the Dysexecutive Syndrome (BADS). Bury St Edmunds, U.K.: Thames Valley Test Company. Trans. Ricardo O Souza, Sergio L Schmidt. Rio de Janeiro: Cognição]. Subjects were left- and right-frontal lobe lesion patients. Other measures of executive dysfunctions used were verbal fluency, the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test, and the Trail Making Test. These other instruments were sensitive to detect executive deficits in the left frontal lobe lesion group, except the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test, which showed impairment only for the frontal lobe lesion group as a whole. The Modified Six Elements Test detected planning disorders in left frontal lobe lesion patients. The deficit of these patients was due to a greater likelihood to break the rules of the task, that is, in plan-following processes, rather than in planning the strategic approach to solve it.
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), São Paulo, SP, Brazil. paula-gouveia@uol.com.br
authors.forename: Paula Adriana Rodrigues
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Gouveia
authors.forename: Sonia Maria Dozzi
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Brucki
authors.forename: Suzana Maria Fleury
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Malheiros
authors.forename: Orlando Francisco Amodeo
authors.initials: OF
authors.lastname: Bueno
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001925:Brain Damage, Chronic / Q000503:physiopathology; D003657:Decision Making / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D005625:Frontal Lobe / Q000293:injuries / Q000502:physiology*; D007839:Functional Laterality / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D033182:Intention; D008297:Male; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D011340:Problem Solving / Q000502:physiology*; D012016:Reference Values; D018709:Statistics, Nonparametric