The Diagnostic Challenge of the Late-Onset Frontal Lobe Syndrome: Clinical Predictors for Primary Psychiatric Disorders Versus Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia.

CONCLUSIONS: The present study demonstrated that PsD can be distinguished from probable/definite bvFTD with a thorough clinical evaluation by a psychiatrist and neurologist along with use of validated questionnaires for depression and stereotypy; these measures are even more effective in combination with neuroimaging. PMID: 29099546 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Journal of Clinical Psychiatry - Category: Psychiatry Tags: J Clin Psychiatry Source Type: research