The Value of Neuropsychological Assessment in the Differentiation Between Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia and Late-Onset Psychiatric Disorders.

CONCLUSIONS: Although one of the criteria of bvFTD is low performance on executive tests, these tests are not useful in differentiating bvFTD from psychiatric disorders. We recommend administering language tests, especially an extensive confrontational naming test, to aid differentiation between bvFTD and a psychiatric disorder in patients presenting with late-onset frontal behavioral changes. PMID: 32023367 [PubMed - in process]

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Source: Journal of Clinical Psychiatry - February 7, 2020 Category: Psychiatry Tags: J Clin Psychiatry Source Type: research