Frontotemporal lobar degeneration: Current perspectives

Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment

Volumn 10, Issue , 2014, Pages 297-310

  Riedl, Lina ^a   Mackenzie, Ian R ^b   Förstl, Hans ^a   Kurz, Alexander ^a   Diehl Schmid, Janine ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Frontotemporal dementia; Frontotemporal lobar degeneration; Review

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN[1-40]; AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN[1-42]; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITOR; DONEPEZIL; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR; FLUVOXAMINE; FUSED IN SARCOMA PROTEIN; GALANTAMINE; MEMANTINE; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; MOCLOBEMIDE; PAROXETINE; PIRACETAM; PLACEBO; PROGRANULIN; RIVASTIGMINE; SEROTONIN 1A RECEPTOR; SEROTONIN 2A RECEPTOR; SERTRALINE; TAR DNA BINDING PROTEIN; TRAZODONE; VALOSIN CONTAINING PROTEIN;

AGNOSIA; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CAREGIVER SUPPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CHROMOSOME 9; DEPRESSION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DYSGRAPHIA; DYSLEXIA; EMPATHY; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC COUNSELING; HUMAN; IMPULSIVENESS; LABORATORY TEST; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; OPEN READING FRAME; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE APHASIA; REVIEW; SEMANTIC DEMENTIA; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM; STEREOTYPY; SURVIVAL RATE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

EID: 84896724675     PISSN: 11766328     EISSN: 11782021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/NDT.S38706     Document Type: Review

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