Philadelphia Brief Assessment of Cognition in healthy and clinical Brazilian sample

The Philadelphia Brief Assessment of Cognition (PBAC) is a neuropsychological screening instrument that assesses five cognitive domains: working memory, visuospatial functioning, language, episodic memory and comportment. The aim is to verify if PBAC can properly be used in the Brazilian sample. Par...

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Published in:Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria 2012-03, Vol.70 (3), p.175-179
Main Authors: Pereira, Danilo Assis, Satler, Corina, Medeiros, Luciana, Pedroso, Renan, Tomaz, Carlos
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Language:Portuguese
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NEUROSCIENCES
PSYCHIATRY
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Summary:The Philadelphia Brief Assessment of Cognition (PBAC) is a neuropsychological screening instrument that assesses five cognitive domains: working memory, visuospatial functioning, language, episodic memory and comportment. The aim is to verify if PBAC can properly be used in the Brazilian sample. Participated in this study: (a) 200 healthy volunteers - 100 young [21.6(2.5) years old] and 100 older adults [70.1(7.3) years old]; >12 years of education; (b) 30 Alzheimer's patients (AD) [73.7(5.7) years old], 4-11 years in education. The PBAC scores: (a) 95.8(2.6), 90.0(4.4) and (b) 65.0(10.8) were correlated with the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) for young 29.1(0.9), older adults 28.3(1.4) and AD 18.4(3.0) groups. A positive correlation between MMSE and PBAC (r=0.9, p
ISSN:1678-4227
DOI:10.1590/S0004-282X2012005000003