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 …

Longitudinal executive function and episodic memory profiles in behavioral-variant frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease

S Ramanan, M Bertoux, E Flanagan, M Irish… - Journal of the …, 2017 - cambridge.org
Objectives: With comparable baseline performance on executive functions (EF) and memory
between Alzheimer's disease (AD) and behavioral-variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) …

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 …

Determinants of theory of mind performance in Alzheimer's disease: a data-mining study

S Ramanan, LC de Souza, N Moreau, M Sarazin… - Cortex, 2017 - Elsevier
Whether theory of mind (ToM) is preserved in Alzheimer's disease (AD) remains a
controversial subject. Recent studies have showed that performance on some ToM tests …

Factors associated with cognitive impairment in a cohort of older homeless adults: Results from the HOPE HOME study

E Hurstak, JK Johnson, L Tieu, D Guzman… - Drug and alcohol …, 2017 - Elsevier
Background We evaluated cognitive function and factors associated with cognitive
impairment in a cohort of older homeless adults. We hypothesized that substance use and a …

Apathy in frontotemporal dementia is related to medial prefrontal atrophy and is independent of executive dysfunction

SAB Gonçalves, P Caramelli, LI Mariano… - Brain research, 2020 - Elsevier
Introduction Apathy is the most common neuropsychiatric syndrome in behavioral variant
frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD), and encompasses cognitive, behavioral and affective …

[HTML][HTML] Frontal variant Alzheimer's disease: A systematic narrative synthesis

A Brown, SK Salo, G Savage - cortex, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Background Frontal variant Alzheimer's disease (fvAD) is considered a rare form of
Alzheimer's disease (AD) which may be misdiagnosed as behavioural variant …

[HTML][HTML] Frontotemporal dementia, music perception and social cognition share neurobiological circuits: A meta-analysis

JJ Van't Hooft, YAL Pijnenburg, SAM Sikkes… - Brain and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is a neurodegenerative disease that presents with profound
changes in social cognition. Music might be a sensitive probe for social cognition abilities …

Cognitive and behavioral profiles of left and right semantic dementia: Differential diagnosis with behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease

A Pozueta, C Lage, M García-Martínez… - Journal of …, 2019 - content.iospress.com
Background: Semantic dementia (SD) is a subtype of frontotemporal dementia (FTD)
characterized by semantic memory loss and preserved abilities of other cognitive functions …