title: Frontal assessment battery in a Brazilian sample of healthy controls: normative data.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  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).
  
  
  METHODS
  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.
  
  
  RESULTS
  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.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  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.
authors.affiliation: Grupo de Pesquisa em Neurologia Cognitiva e do Comportamento, Departamento de Clínica Médica, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte MG, Brazil.
authors.forename: Rogério
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Beato
authors.forename: Viviane
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Amaral-Carvalho
authors.forename: Henrique Cerqueira
authors.initials: HC
authors.lastname: Guimarães
authors.forename: Vitor
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Tumas
authors.forename: Carolina Pinto
authors.initials: CP
authors.lastname: Souza
authors.forename: Guiomar Nascimento de
authors.initials: GN
authors.lastname: Oliveira
authors.forename: Paulo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Caramelli
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001938:Brazil; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D035061:Control Groups; D004522:Educational Status; D056344:Executive Function / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012737:Sex Factors