Frontotemporal dementia - behavioral variant as a differential diagnosis of primary psychiatric disorders

Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) was described by Arnold Pick more than a century ago. It is a type of dementia in which multiple clinical manifestations of behavior and language predominat. The first and most frequent subtype, called behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD), which, due to a...

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Autores: Cruzado, Lizardo, Custodio, Nilton, Montesinos, Rosa, Lanata, Serggio
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:Perú
Institución:Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia
Repositorio:Revistas - Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:revistas.upch.edu.pe:article/4035
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.upch.edu.pe/index.php/RNP/article/view/4035
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Frontotemporal dementia
diagnosis, differential
mental disorders
Demencia frontotemporal
diagnóstico diferencial
trastornos mentales
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Sumario:Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) was described by Arnold Pick more than a century ago. It is a type of dementia in which multiple clinical manifestations of behavior and language predominat. The first and most frequent subtype, called behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD), which, due to a variety of clinical presentations, can be confused with primary psychiatric conditions such as depression, bipolar disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, late-onset psychosis, impulse control disorders, and other pathologies. Recently, an important and promising stream of clinical, neurobiological, and genetic research offers fascinating insights into this disorder which, thus, becomes a paradigm of the intricate relationships between neurology and psychiatry. This review examines recent bibliography on bvFTD , with emphasis on aspects of its differential diagnosis.