The Frontal Lobe Score: part I: construction of a mental status of frontal systems

Ettlin, Thierry; Kischka, Udo; Beckson, Mace; Gaggiotti, M; Rauchfleisch, Udo; Benson, D. Frank

doi:10.1191/026921500669635136

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“…Furthermore, it seems likely that text-level language processes are a component of executive functions that cannot be simply explained by more basic subprocesses (cf. Ettlin et al, 2000). The perseveration score from the MCST was related to the judgment times and to the errors in incoherent trials.…”

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Text comprehension after brain injury: Left prefrontal lesions affect inference processes.

Ferstl

Guthke²,

Cramon

2002

Neuropsychology

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Comprehending language in context requires inferencing, particularly for the establishment of local coherence. In the neurolinguistic literature, an inference deficit after right hemisphere brain damage has been postulated, but clinical observation and imaging data suggest that left-frontal lesions might also result in inference deficits. In the present experiment, 25 nonaphasic patients performed a coherence judgment task requiring them to indicate a pragmatic connection between 2 successively presented sentences. Patients with left-temporal or right-frontal lesions performed the task well. In contrast, patients with left-and bifrontal lesions exhibited the most severe deficit. Both error rates and response times were elevated for coherent trials as compared with incoherent trials. These results confirm that the leftfrontal lobe contributes to inference processes.

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Text comprehension after brain injury: Left prefrontal lesions affect inference processes.

Ferstl

Guthke²,

Cramon

2002

Neuropsychology

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“…Ettlin et al [48] developed a bedside mental status examination to assess frontal lobe functions: the Frontal Lobe Score (FLS). This scale screens both cognitive and behavioral effects of frontal lobe dysfunction.…”

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Frontal lobe functions

Chayer

Freedman

2001

Curr Neurol Neurosci Rep

193

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The frontal lobes constitute two thirds of the human brain, yet the functions performed by them remained mysterious for a long time. Apart from their well-known involvement in motor function and language, little was previously known about the functions of the frontal lobes. Recent advances have uncovered important roles for the frontal lobes in a multitude of cognitive processes, such as executive function, attention, memory, and language. The importance of the frontal lobes in processes underlying affect, mood, personality, self-awareness, as well as social and moral reasoning, is also a renewed area for research. This article focuses on recent advances in understanding frontal lobe functions.

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“…For the MMSE, a score <24 was taken as evidence for overall cognitive deficit [39]. Additionally, we used the frontal lobe score (FLS) for the assessment of frontal functions and to test for potential frontal lobe damage on a behavioral dimension with a cutoff of ≥12 [40]. The FLS consisted of 6 dimensions: (1) motor control and programming, tested with control of reflexes and motor impulses and performance of a complex series of movements, (2) mental control, tested with flexibility in cognitive shifting (Trail Making Test [41]) and with the ability to reverse automated series, (3) personality and emotion, assessed by 12 items from the Neurobehavioral Rating Scale [42], (4) language (examination of spontaneous speech and narrative discourse), (5) semantic verbal fluency and nonverbal fluency (Five-Point Test [43]) and (6) memory as evaluated by a word list learning test.…”

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Effects of Cerebellothalamic Tractotomy on Cognitive and Emotional Functioning in Essential Tremor: A Preliminary Study in 5 Essential Tremor Patients

Ledermann¹,

Jeanmonod

McAleese

et al. 2015

Stereotact Funct Neurosurg

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Background: Subthalamic stereotactic interventions have recently caught renewed interest as a treatment for essential tremor (ET). However, it is not clear whether these interventions are associated with neurocognitive, mood or personality changes. Objective: To investigate neurocognition, neuropsychiatric functions and personality variables in patients with ET and to explore the neurocognitive and neuropsychiatric effects of cerebellothalamic tractotomy (CTT), a form of subthalamotomy. Methods: In our study, we investigated cognitive functions, frontal functions, mood and personality variables in 5 patients with intractable ET. Patients were tested before and 3 months after surgery using neuropsychological tests, clinical scales for depression, anxiety, anger regulation and a personality test. Results: Before surgery, ET patients showed normal neurocognitive function, a slightly elevated frontal lobe score in the dimensions mental control and memory, without being indicative of a frontal lesion, and no elevated depression or anxiety scores compared to norm values. After surgery, there was no change in neurocognitive function and no increase in depression or anxiety scores. Conclusion: In this exploratory study on 5 ET patients, CTT was not associated with alterations of mood or neurocognitive functions.

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The Frontal Lobe Score: part I: construction of a mental status of frontal systems

Abstract: The Frontal Lobe Score is a useful screening instrument for the clinical detection of effects of frontal lobe damage.

Cited by 34 publications

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Text comprehension after brain injury: Left prefrontal lesions affect inference processes.

Text comprehension after brain injury: Left prefrontal lesions affect inference processes.

Frontal lobe functions

Effects of Cerebellothalamic Tractotomy on Cognitive and Emotional Functioning in Essential Tremor: A Preliminary Study in 5 Essential Tremor Patients

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