Italian neuropsychological instruments to assess memory, attention and frontal functions for developmental age

Neurol Sci. 2006 Dec;27(6):381-96. doi: 10.1007/s10072-006-0717-5.

Abstract

In this study, a series of tests exploring long-term verbal memory (the Short Story Test), attention (a modified version of Attentional Matrices and the Trail Making Test) and frontal functions (a modified version of the Frontal Assessment Battery) have been standardised on an Italian population of 283 children aged 5-14. Raw scores for each test have been adjusted for a series of variables (child's age, years of parents' education, handedness, gender) and transformed in equivalent scores enabling direct comparison across measures. This study was promoted by LICE (the Italian League Against Epilepsy) in order to provide Italian instruments standardised on the developmental age population and to study some of the most frequently impaired cognitive functions in epilepsy.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adolescent Development
  • Attention*
  • Child
  • Child Development
  • Child, Preschool
  • Cognition Disorders / diagnosis*
  • Cognition Disorders / etiology
  • Epilepsy / complications*
  • Female
  • Frontal Lobe / physiology*
  • Humans
  • Italy
  • Male
  • Mass Screening / methods
  • Mass Screening / standards
  • Memory*
  • Neuropsychological Tests* / standards
  • Reproducibility of Results