Marcello Moccia, L. Rosa, Roberta Lanzillo, Andrea Falco, Francesca Di Lauro, Fabrizia Falco, Alessandro Chiodi, Teresa Costabile, Antonio Carotenuto, Angelo D’Amelio, Vincenzo Brescia Morra, and Kyrie Piscopo
The Brief Repeatable Battery of Neuropsychological Tests (BRB) is frequently used to estimate cognitive function in adults with multiple sclerosis (MS), while it has been included in few studies on young MS, also because of the absence of normative values. We aim to evaluate the impact of age, gender, and education on BRB scores in a young adolescent population. We administered the BRB to 76, 14-to-17-year-old, healthy subjects. Linear regression models were used to assess the impact of age, gender, and education on sub-test scores. When statistically significant (p