Behavioral variant of frontotemporal dementia mimicking Huntington's disease

International Psychogeriatrics

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 674-677

  Nielsen, T Rune ^a   Bruhn, Peter ^b   Nielsen, Jørgen E ^a,c   Hjermind, Lena E ^a,c  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^b GLOSTRUP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Chorea; Frontotemporal dementia; Frontotemporal lobar degeneration; Hereditary dementia; Huntington's disease; Huntington's disease like phenotype

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CASE REPORT; CHOREOATHETOSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FRONTAL VARIANT FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; INVOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; LABORATORY TEST; MEMORY; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PHENOTYPE;

AGED; COGNITION DISORDERS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHENOTYPE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STEREOTYPIC MOVEMENT DISORDER;

EID: 77952423318     PISSN: 10416102     EISSN: 1741203X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1041610210000098     Document Type: Article

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