Recommendations to distinguish behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia from psychiatric disorders

S Ducharme, A Dols, R Laforce, E Devenney, F Kumfor… - Brain, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The behavioural variant of frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) is a frequent cause of early-
onset dementia. The diagnosis of bvFTD remains challenging because of the limited …

Affective and emotional dysregulation as pre-dementia risk markers: exploring the mild behavioral impairment symptoms of depression, anxiety, irritability, and …

Z Ismail, J Gatchel, DR Bateman… - International …, 2018 - cambridge.org
Background: Affective and emotional symptoms such as depression, anxiety, euphoria, and
irritability are common neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPS) in pre-dementia and cognitively …

The behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) syndrome in psychiatry

SC Lanata, BL Miller - Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & …, 2016 - jnnp.bmj.com
The primary goal of this article is to critically discuss the syndromic overlap that exists
between early behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD)—the most common …

Psychiatric symptoms in frontotemporal dementia: epidemiology, phenotypes, and differential diagnosis

D Galimberti, B Dell'Osso, AC Altamura, E Scarpini - Biological Psychiatry, 2015 - Elsevier
Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is the most frequently occurring dementia in the presenile
population. Despite epidemiologic data showing that patients with FTD may have …

Role of genetics and epigenetics in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia

C Fenoglio, E Scarpini, M Serpente… - Journal of Alzheimer's …, 2018 - content.iospress.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) represent the first cause of
dementia in senile and pre-senile population, respectively. A percentage of cases have a …

Older age bipolar disorder

A Dols, A Beekman - Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, 2020 - geriatric.theclinics.com
Older age bipolar disorder (OABD) refers to patients older than 60 years with bipolar
disorder (BD). 1, 2 Of all patients with BD, 25% are older than 60 years 3 and this number is …

Autosomal dominant frontotemporal lobar degeneration due to the C9ORF72 hexanucleotide repeat expansion: late-onset psychotic clinical presentation

D Galimberti, C Fenoglio, M Serpente, C Villa… - Biological …, 2013 - Elsevier
Background A hexanucleotide repeat expansion in the first intron of C9ORF72 has been
shown to be responsible for a high number of familial cases of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis …

Primary Progressive Aphasia Associated With GRN Mutations: New Insights Into the Nonamyloid Logopenic Variant

D Saracino, S Ferrieux, M Nogues-Lassiaille, M Houot… - Neurology, 2021 - AAN Enterprises
Objective To determine relative frequencies and linguistic profiles of primary progressive
aphasia (PPA) variants associated with GRN (progranulin) mutations and to study their …

Risk of dementia and death in community-dwelling older men with bipolar disorder

OP Almeida, K McCaul, GJ Hankey… - The British Journal of …, 2016 - cambridge.org
BackgroundBipolar disorder has been associated with cognitive decline, but confirmatory
evidence from a community-derived sample of older people is lacking. AimsTo investigate …

Genetic screen in a large series of patients with primary progressive aphasia

EM Ramos, DR Dokuru, V Van Berlo, K Wojta… - Alzheimer's & …, 2019 - Elsevier
Introduction Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) is a neurological syndrome, associated with
both frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease, in which progressive language …