The IFS is a brief neuropsychological tool for the assessment of executive functions devised by Teresa Torralva and colleagues. The Portuguese version has been tested on 204 healthy adults and 21 patients with Alzheimer’s disease. For more info, please see our Journal of Alzheimer’s disease 2014 paper “Examining executive dysfunction with the Institute of Cognitive Neurology (INECO) Frontal Screening (IFS): Normative values from a healthy sample and clinical utility in Alzheimer’s disease”. The test itself is available to interested colleagues for clinical and research purposes. If you are interested, please e-mail Selene Vicente.
The FAB is a short neuropsychological battery for the assessment of executive functions devised by Bruno Dubois and colleagues. It consists of six subtests that assess different abilities related to the frontal lobes. The Portuguese version of the FAB has been tested on 122 healthy adults and 50 patients with Parkinson's disease. For more info, please see our Journal of Neurology 2008 paper "The Frontal Assessment Battery (FAB) in Parkinson's disease and correlations with formal measures of executive functioning". The test is available to interested colleagues for clinical or research purposes. If you are interested, please contact labfala@fpce.up.pt.
This is a Stroop test that examines the accuracy and speed of incongruous color naming in Portuguese. We present results from 145 healthy adults and 40 patients with unilateral cerebrovascular accidents, whose ages range from 18 to 87 years, and education from 3 to 12+ years of schooling.
For more info, please download the handout of a poster presented at the 111th APA meeting here (it is a pdf file).
The test is available for educational or research purposes. If you are interested, please contact labfala@fpce.up.pt.
The Autism Quotient (AQ) (Adult) is a self-administered questionnaire that measures the degree to which an adult has traits associated with the autistic spectrum. It was devised by Simon Baron-Cohen and colleagues from the Autism Research Centre, ARC, at the University of Cambridge, and it has been translated into 12 languages. Ours is the Portuguese translation. It is available for non-commercial purposes from the ARC site, here.
The TIPI is a very brief measure of the Big-Five personality dimensions devised by Samuel Gosling and colleagues. It has been translated into 12 languages. Our is the Portuguese translation, that is available for clinical or research purposes.
The test is available for non-commercial purposes from the Gosling lab site, here.
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