| HOME | HELP | FEEDBACK | SUBSCRIPTIONS | ARCHIVE | SEARCH | TABLE OF CONTENTS |
|
|
|
|||||||
|
|||||||||
From the Department of Neurology, (Drs. Mendez, Pachana, Miller, and Cummings), University of California at Los Angeles School of Medicine and Psychiatry Service, West Los Angeles V.A. Medical Center; and Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences (Drs. Mendez, Cherrier, Perryman, and Cummings), University of California at Los Angeles School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA.
Received November 29, 1995. Accepted in final form February 29, 1996.
Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr Mendez, Neurobehavior Unit (691/116AF), West Los Angeles V.A. Medical Center, 11301 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90073.
Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is a common neurodegenerative dementia that can be difficult to distinguish clinically from Alzheimer's disease (AD).The differential distribution of pathology in FTD and AD predicts the presence of differential cognitive features on mental status examination. We compared 39 FTD patients with 101 AD patients on the Consortium to Establish a Registry in AD examination supplemented by cognitive areas from the Neurobehavioral Cognitive Status Examination. The FTD patients were diagnosed using noncognitive clinical and neuro-imaging criteria and were comparable to the AD patients in terms of gender, educational level, and dementia severity ratings. The FTD patients performed significantly better than the AD patients on constructions and calculations. These findings were at the lower limits of normal for older normal controls and persisted after covarying for younger age and higher Mini-Mental Status Examination scores in the FTD group. In addition to personality and neuroimaging features, relatively preserved performance of elementary drawings and calculations in FTD suggests additional features for distinguishing FTD patients from comparably demented AD patients.
NEUROLOGY 1996;47: 1189-1194
This article has been cited by other articles:
|
|
 |
|
  W. W. Seeley, B. R. Matthews, R. K. Crawford, M. L. Gorno-Tempini, D. Foti, I. R. Mackenzie, and B. L. Miller Unravelling Bolero: progressive aphasia, transmodal creativity and the right posterior neocortex Brain, January 1, 2008; 131(1): 39 - 49. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
|
|
|
|
 |
|
 D. J. Libon, S. X. Xie, P. Moore, J. Farmer, S. Antani, G. McCawley, K. Cross, and M. Grossman Patterns of neuropsychological impairment in frontotemporal dementia Neurology, January 30, 2007; 68(5): 369 - 375. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
|
|
|
|
 |
|
 M. F. Mendez, A. K. Chen, J. S. Shapira, P.-H. Lu, and B. L. Miller Acquired extroversion associated with bitemporal variant of frontotemporal dementia. J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci, December 1, 2006; 18(1): 100 - 107. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
|
|
|
|
 |
|
 J C Thompson, C L Stopford, J S Snowden, and D Neary Qualitative neuropsychological performance characteristics in frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease J. Neurol. Neurosurg. Psychiatry, July 1, 2005; 76(7): 920 - 927. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
|
|
|
|
|
|
B. F. Boeve, I. W. Tremont-Lukats, A. J. Waclawik, J. R. Murrell, B. Hermann, C. R. Jack Jr, M. M. Shiung, G. E. Smith, A. R. Nair, N. Lindor, et al. Longitudinal characterization of two siblings with frontotemporal dementia and parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17 associated with the S305N tau mutation Brain, April 1, 2005; 128(4): 752 - 772. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
|
|
|
|
 |
|
 J. Diehl, A. U. Monsch, C. Aebi, S. Wagenpfeil, S. Krapp, T. Grimmer, W. Seeley, H. Forstl, and A. Kurz Frontotemporal Dementia, Semantic Dementia, and Alzheimer's Disease: The Contribution of Standard Neuropsychological Tests to Differential Diagnosis J Geriatr Psychiatry Neurol, March 1, 2005; 18(1): 39 - 44. [Abstract] [PDF]
|
|
|
|
|
|
D. M. Blass, K. J. Hatanpaa, J. Brandt, V. Rao, M. Steinberg, J. C. Troncoso, and P. V. Rabins Dementia in hippocampal sclerosis resembles frontotemporal dementia more than Alzheimer disease Neurology, August 10, 2004; 63(3): 492 - 497. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
|
|
|
|
 |
|
 A. Slachevsky, J. M. Villalpando, M. Sarazin, V. Hahn-Barma, B. Pillon, and B. Dubois Frontal Assessment Battery and Differential Diagnosis of Frontotemporal Dementia and Alzheimer Disease Arch Neurol, July 1, 2004; 61(7): 1104 - 1107. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
|
|
|
|
|
|
B. L. Miller and C. E. Hou Portraits of Artists: Emergence of Visual Creativity in Dementia Arch Neurol, June 1, 2004; 61(6): 842 - 844. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
|
|
|
|
|
|
M. F. Mendez and K. M. Perryman Neuropsychiatric Features of Frontotemporal Dementia: Evaluation of Consensus Criteria and Review J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci, November 1, 2002; 14(4): 424 - 429. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
|
|
|
|
|
|
K. Rascovsky, D. P. Salmon, G. J. Ho, D. Galasko, G. M. Peavy, L. A. Hansen, and L. J. Thal Cognitive profiles differ in autopsy-confirmed frontotemporal dementia and AD Neurology, June 25, 2002; 58(12): 1801 - 1808. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
|
|
|
|
|
|
H. M M Smeding and I. de Koning Frontotemporal dementia and neuropsychology: the value of missing values J. Neurol. Neurosurg. Psychiatry, June 1, 2000; 68(6): 726 - 730. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
|
|
|
|
|
|
T. A. Ala, G. O. Beh, and W. H. Frey II Pure hippocampal sclerosis: A rare cause of dementia mimicking Alzheimer's disease Neurology, February 22, 2000; 54(4): 843 - 848. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
|
|
|
|
|
|
G. Binetti, J. J. Locascio, S. Corkin, J. P. Vonsattel, and J. H. Growdon Differences Between Pick Disease and Alzheimer Disease in Clinical Appearance and Rate of Cognitive Decline Arch Neurol, February 1, 2000; 57(2): 225 - 232. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
|
|
|
|
|
|
J. K. Johnson, E. Head, R. Kim, A. Starr, and C. W. Cotman Clinical and Pathological Evidence for a Frontal Variant of Alzheimer Disease Arch Neurol, October 1, 1999; 56(10): 1233 - 1239. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
|
|
|
|
 |
|
 D. A. Drachman and K. L. Newell Case 12-1999- A 67-Year-Old Man with Three Years of Dementia N. Engl. J. Med., April 22, 1999; 340(16): 1269 - 1277. [Full Text] [PDF]
|
|
|
|
|
|
T. D. Bird, D. Nochlin, P. Poorkaj, M. Cherrier, J. Kaye, H. Payami, E. Peskind, T. H. Lampe, E. Nemens, P. J. Boyer, et al. A clinical pathological comparison of three families with frontotemporal dementia and identical mutations in the tau gene (P301L) Brain, April 1, 1999; 122(4): 741 - 756. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
|
|
| HOME | HELP | FEEDBACK | SUBSCRIPTIONS | ARCHIVE | SEARCH | TABLE OF CONTENTS |
