{"id":69179,"date":"2025-11-14T08:45:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T08:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/frontal-lobe-function-assessment-battery-fab\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T08:45:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T08:45:38","slug":"frontal-lobe-function-assessment-battery-fab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/frontal-lobe-function-assessment-battery-fab\/","title":{"rendered":"Frontal Lobe Function Assessment Battery (FAB)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A brief screening tool used at the patient&#8217;s bedside to assess executive functions related to the work of the frontal lobes. It includes six subtests: similarity (conceptualization), verbal fluency, motor series (programming), contradictory instruction execution (sensitivity to interference), stop-walk test (inhibition control), and grasping behavior (dependence on the environment). Each subtest is evaluated from 0 to 3 points, the maximum total score is 18. FAB is performed quickly (about 10 minutes) and is used in neurology and neuropsychology to detect frontal lobe dysfunction in dementia, Parkinson&#8217;s disease, stroke, and traumatic brain injury.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A brief screening tool used at the patient&#8217;s bedside to assess executive functions related to the work of the frontal lobes. It includes six subtests: similarity (conceptualization), verbal fluency, motor series (programming), contradictory instruction execution (sensitivity to interference), stop-walk test (inhibition control), and grasping behavior (dependence on the environment). Each subtest is evaluated from 0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-key-psychological-concepts-in-clinical-neuropsychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}