The Frontal Assessment Battery (FAB): normative data from an Italian sample and performances of patients with Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia.

The Frontal Assessment Battery (FAB) is a short neuropsychological tool aiming to assess executive functions at the bedside. Two-hundred and thirty-six normal controls were administered the FAB and three other tasks assessing attentional and executive functions. The FAB was also administered to 28 patients suffering from mild Alzheimer's disease (AD, n.