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 …

Assessment and impact of cognitive impairment in multiple sclerosis: an overview

MÁ Macías Islas, E Ciampi - Biomedicines, 2019 - mdpi.com
Cognitive impairment affects 40–60% of patients with multiple sclerosis. It may be present
early in the course of the disease and has an impact on a patient's employability, social …

Classification of Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia using routine clinical and cognitive measures across multicentric underrepresented samples: a …

MA Maito, H Santamaría-García… - The Lancet Regional …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Background Global brain health initiatives call for improving methods for the diagnosis of
Alzheimer's disease (AD) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) in underrepresented …

Cognitive and affective Theory of Mind in neurodegenerative diseases: neuropsychological, neuroanatomical and neurochemical levels

M Poletti, I Enrici, M Adenzato - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2012 - Elsevier
The paper reviews of all of the current evidence on Theory of Mind (ToM) abilities in patients
with neurodegenerative diseases. ToM refers to the abilities to attribute mental states to …

Proposed research criteria for prodromal behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia

MS Barker, RT Gottesman, M Manoochehri… - Brain, 2022 - academic.oup.com
At present, no research criteria exist for the diagnosis of prodromal behavioural variant
frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD), though early detection is of high research importance …

Theory of mind in behavioural-variant frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease: a meta-analysis

E Bora, M Walterfang, D Velakoulis - Journal of Neurology …, 2015 - jnnp.bmj.com
Current evidence suggests that neurocognitive testing has limited practical benefit in
distinguishing behavioural-variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) and Alzheimer's …

Current limitations of neuropsychological tests and assessment procedures

D Howieson - The Clinical Neuropsychologist, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Objective: Neuropsychological tests are used for a wide variety of purposes: assessing basic
cognitive abilities or disabilities; determining cognitive patterns associated with brain …

Right anterior temporal lobe dysfunction underlies theory of mind impairments in semantic dementia

M Irish, JR Hodges, O Piguet - Brain, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Semantic dementia is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by the
amodal and profound loss of semantic knowledge attributable to the degeneration of the left …

Social cognition and emotional assessment differentiates frontotemporal dementia from depression

M Bertoux, M Delavest, LC de Souza… - Journal of Neurology …, 2012 - jnnp.bmj.com
Background Behavioural variant of frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) is a neurodegenerative
disease that is clinically characterised by progressive behavioural changes and social …

Socioeconomic status impacts cognitive and socioemotional processes in healthy ageing

J Migeot, M Calivar, H Granchetti, A Ibáñez… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Socioeconomic status (SES) negatively impacts cognitive and executive functioning in older
adults, yet its effects on socioemotional abilities have not been studied in this population …