Anna-Leena Heikkinen, Veera Tikkanen, Tuomo Hänninen, Christer Hublin, Anne M Koivisto, Toni T Saari, Anne M Remes, Teemu I Paajanen, Johanna Krüger
OBJECTIVE: The INECO Frontal Screening (IFS) and the Frontal Assessment Battery (FAB) are executive dysfunction (ED) screening tools that can distinguish patients with neurodegenerative disorders from healthy controls and, to some extent, between dementia subtypes. This paper aims to examine the suitability of these tests in assessing early-onset cognitive impairment and dementia patients. METHOD: In a memory clinic patient cohort (age mean = 57.4 years) with symptom onset at ≤65 years, we analyzed the IFS and the FAB results of four groups: early-onset dementia (EOD, n = 49), mild cognitive impairment due to neurological causes (MCI-n, n = 34), MCI due to other causes such as depression (MCI-o, n = 99) and subjective cognitive decline (SCD, n = 14)...
October 6, 2023: Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society: JINS