Psychiatric conditions that can mimic early behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia: The importance of the new diagnostic criteria

Current Psychiatry Reports

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 450-452

  Manes, Facundo ^a  

^a FAVALORO UNIVERSITY   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia; Biomarkers; Bipolar disorders; BvFTD; Clinical trials; Diagnostic criteria; Differential diagnosis; Ecological tasks; Executive functions; Frontotemporal dementia; Frontotemporal lobar degeneration; FTD; MRI; Neurodegenerative diseases

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BIPOLAR DISORDER; BRAIN ATROPHY; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPULSION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FRONTAL VARIANT FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NOTE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SOCIAL COGNITION;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 84870782376     PISSN: 15233812     EISSN: 15351645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11920-012-0294-7     Document Type: Note

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