Psychiatric Screening Measures in Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia

CONCLUSIONS: The use of cutoff scores on screening measures for primary psychiatric disorders resulted in potentially problematic positive screens of primary psychiatric disorders among persons with bvFTD. Identifying specific questions that distinguish between bvFTD and primary psychiatric disorders requires further study.PMID:37981780 | DOI:10.1176/appi.neuropsych.20230041

Source: Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences - November 20, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Peter S Pressman Joie Molden Hal S Wortzel Evan Plys Jonathan H Woodcock Christopher M Filley David B Arciniegas Source Type: research