Frontotemporal dementia presenting as severe depression

Pathologically proven frontotemporal dementia presenting with severe amnesia.

Early and severe memory impairment is generally held to be an exclusion criterion for the clinical diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia (FTD). However, clinical experience suggests that some patients with otherwise typical FTD can be amnesic from presentation, or even present solely with amnesia. A review of severe amnesia at presentation in patients with pathologically proven FTD is therefore ...

Compulsive urination as a presenting symptom of frontotemporal dementia.

Sir, Frontotemporal dementia (FTD), one variant of frontotemporal lobar degeneration, is characterized by personality changes, behavioral dyscontrol and executive dysfunction [1]. Compulsive and repetitive behavior, such as repetitive checking, hyperorality, and pacing, are well documented presenting signs and symptoms of FTD [2]. Urinary symptoms including urgency, frequency, and incontinence ...

Leukoencephalopathy with neuroaxonal spheroids presenting as frontotemporal dementia.

Assessment of Aphasia in Iranian Patients Suffering From Frontotemporal Dementia

Objective Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is an uncommon type of dementia. The hallmark feature of FTD is the presentation with aphasia, or behavioral changes which are varies in different subtypes of the disease. We propose a quantitative aphasia test as an additive diagnostic tool for differentiation of FTD subtypes. Method: The study was performed on 20 patients, who were referred to dementia...

Functional neuroimaging and presenting psychiatric features in frontotemporal dementia.

BACKGROUND Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is a behavioural syndrome caused by degeneration of the frontal and anterior temporal lobes. Behavioural disturbances include psychiatric features. Whether patients with FTD present with psychiatric features varies with the initial neuroanatomical variability of FTD. OBJECTIVE To identify presenting psychiatric changes not part of diagnostic criteria o...