Students involved in this project will help develop a normative database for the Frontal Assessment Battery (FAB), which is designed to facilitate the identification of impairments in frontally-mediated cognition. In order for the FAB to be interpreted meaningfully, age- and education-adjusted normative data is required. Interested students will work with the Neuropsychiatry Service to develop a protocol with which to begin the development of a normative database for the FAB.
The student will participate in the following research activities:
Clinical assessment of cognition in medical practice is generally limited to the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE). Although this measure is useful in the assessment of persons with disorders of cognition affecting memory and language (ie, Alzheimer’s disease), it is generally regarded as a rather poor measure for the assessment of cognition among persons with neurological conditions affecting the frontal lobes (ie, frontotemporal dementia, traumatic brain injury, Parkinson’s disease, etc.). The FAB is gaining broad appeal as a bedside test of executive function, particularly in light of its ability to identify persons with clinically significant cognitive impairments that are opaque to identification using the MMSE.
Preceptor Information |
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| Name: | David Arciniegas |
| Department: | Psychiatry |
| Location: | 2nd Floor, Colorado Psychiatric Hospital Bldg. |
| 9th and Colorado Campus | |
| Contact: | 303-399-8020 ext. 3732 |
| david.arciniegas@uchsc.edu | |
| Faculty/Lab Website: | www.uchsc.edu/psychiatry/Residency/NeuroHistory.htm |
Position Information |
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| Openings | 1 |
| Funding: | Variable |