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 …

Psychological and cognitive markers of behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia–A clinical neuropsychologist's view on diagnostic criteria and beyond

A Johnen, M Bertoux - Frontiers in neurology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) is the second leading cognitive
disorder caused by neurodegeneration in patients under 65 years of age. Characterized by …

Alzheimer's disease or behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia? Review of key points toward an accurate clinical and neuropsychological diagnosis

G Musa, A Slachevsky, C Muñoz-Neira… - Journal of …, 2020 - content.iospress.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) are the most common
neurodegenerative earlyonset dementias. Despite the fact that both conditions have a very …

Mental states in moving shapes: distinct cortical and subcortical contributions to theory of mind impairments in dementia

A Synn, A Mothakunnel, F Kumfor… - Journal of …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Impaired capacity for Theory of Mind (ToM) represents one of the hallmark features of the
behavioral variant of frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) and is suggested to underpin an …

Assessing executive dysfunction in neurodegenerative disorders: a critical review of brief neuropsychological tools

HS Moreira, AS Costa, SL Castro, CF Lima… - Frontiers in aging …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Executive function (EF) has been defined as a multifaceted construct that involves a variety
of high-level cognitive abilities such as planning, working memory, mental flexibility, and …

Disinhibition in frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease: a neuropsychological and behavioural investigation

LI Mariano, C O'Callaghan, HC Guimarães… - Journal of the …, 2020 - cambridge.org
Objective: Cognitive tests of inhibitory control show variable results for the differential
diagnosis between behavioural variant of Frontotemporal Dementia (bvFTD) and …

Diagnosing, monitoring and managing behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia

O Piguet, F Kumfor, J Hodges - Medical Journal of Australia, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia is characterised by insidious changes in
personality and interpersonal conduct that reflect progressive disintegration of the neural …

[HTML][HTML] Relating constructs of attention and working memory to social withdrawal in Alzheimer's disease and schizophrenia: issues regarding paradigm selection

G Gilmour, S Porcelli, V Bertaina-Anglade… - Neuroscience & …, 2019 - Elsevier
Central nervous system diseases are not currently diagnosed based on knowledge of
biological mechanisms underlying their symptoms. Greater understanding may be offered …

Combined socio-behavioral evaluation improves the differential diagnosis between the behavioral variant of frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease: in …

A Dodich, C Cerami, SF Cappa… - Journal of …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: Current diagnostic criteria for behavioral variant of frontotemporal dementia
(bvFTD) and typical Alzheimer's disease (AD) include a differential pattern of …

[HTML][HTML] Social and non-social working memory in neurodegeneration

A Legaz, P Prado, S Moguilner, S Báez… - Neurobiology of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Although social functioning relies on working memory, whether a social-specific mechanism
exists remains unclear. This undermines the characterization of neurodegenerative …