diagnostic criteria for frontotemporal dementia

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Introduction

Essential features:

  • insidious onset & gradual progression
  • early decline in social interpersonal conduct
  • early impairment in regulation of personal conduct
  • early emotional blunting
  • early loss of insight

Supportive features:

Notes

  • performance of MMSE may be near normal[3]

More general terms

Additional terms

References

  1. Cummings JL, The Neuropsychiatry of Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias, Martin Dunitz, 2003
  2. Piguet O et al. Sensitivity of current criteria for the diagnosis of behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia. Neurology 2009 Feb 24; 72:732. PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19237702
  3. 3.0 3.1 Medical Knowledge Self Assessment Program (MKSAP) 17, American College of Physicians, Philadelphia 2015