Double jeopardy: untangling depression, parkinson's disease & frontotemporal dementia in clinical practice with bedside cognitive testing

Progressive supranuclear palsy is a taupathy disorder often mistaken on diagnosis by other neurocognitive disorders such as Parkinson's (PD) and Alzheimer's (AD) disease amongst other. PSP tends to be diagnosed in the later course of the disease and by time of diagnosis, individuals have a median survival of 7?years. PSP is a disease in which a diagnosis and treatment is done in a multidisiplinary approach involving collaboration of Psychiatry and Neurology. As it was seen in this clinical case which describes a patient with undetected progressive supranuclear palsy who were referred to a university hospital psychiatric emergency services facility for treatment of late onset symptoms and signs attributed to primary psychopathology related to behavioral variant of frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLDbv).
Source: The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry - Category: Geriatrics Authors: Tags: Poster Number: EI-36 Source Type: research