FRONTIER Screen Distinguishes Frontotemporal Dementia From Alzheimer's

Researchers who administered the FRONTIER Executive Screen (FES) — a brief bedside questionnaire designed to assess verbal fluency, inhibitory control, and working memory — were able to distinguish patients with behavioral-variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) from patients with Alzheimer's disease, according to a study published in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry.
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