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Assessing Frontal Lobe Behavioral Syndromes with the Frontal Lobe Personality Scale

Brown University School of Medicine

Julie C. Stout

Indiana University

Paul F. Malloy

Brown University School of Medicine

Reliability and construct validity are reported for the Frontal Lobe Personality Scale (FLOPS), a brief neurobehavior rating scale. The FLOPS Family form was completed by family members of 24 frontal lobe brain-damaged patients, 15 non-frontal lobe braindamaged patients, and 48 healthy controls. Intrascale reliability was demonstrated (internal consistency .96; split half .93). Validity studies of frontal lobe patients post-lesion compared to their pre-lesion status, to healthy controls, and of frontal lobe patients preand post-lesion compared to non-frontal lobe patients preand post-lesion, indicated that frontal lobe patients post-lesion showed significantly more "frontal" behavior than (a) pre-lesion frontal lobe patients, (b) healthy controls, and (c) post-lesion non-frontal lobe patients. The FLOPS appears to be useful for quantifying frontal lobe behavior in clinical and research settings.

Key Words: frontal lobe • neuropsychological test • personality test • head injury • stroke

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