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The Value of Neuropsychological Assessment in the Differentiation Between Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia and Late-Onset Psychiatric Disorders by Overbeek, Jozefien M.; Korten, Nicole; Gossink, Flora; Fieldhouse, Jay; van de Beek, Marleen; Reus, Lianne; Dols, Annemieke; Pijnenburg, Yolande; Schouws, Sigfried is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
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## Objective: To investigate which neuropsychological tests can discriminate between behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvftd) and psychiatric disorders presenting with similar late-onset frontal behavioral changes, such as apathy, disinhibition, reduced empathy, or compulsive behavior. ## Methods: Patients presenting with frontal behavioral changes in middle or late adulthood received extensive baseline examinations, including neuropsychological assessment and brain imaging. after 2 years, examinations were repeated and patients were diagnosed according to dsm-iv or international bvftd consensus criteria. the study period was april 2011-june 2015. two groups were selected: 32 patients with bvftd and 53 patients with a psychiatric or psychological diagnosis. associations between neuropsychological test scores and diagnostic group were investigated with logistic regression analyses, and diagnostic accuracy was investigated with a receiver operating characteristic curve. ## Results: Bvftd patients scored lower on tests for confrontational naming, gestalt completion, and verbal abstraction compared to psychiatric patients (p < .01). the confrontational naming test (boston nam
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- Author
- Overbeek, Jozefien M.; Korten, Nicole; Gossink, Flora; Fieldhouse, Jay; van de Beek, Marleen; Reus, Lianne; Dols, Annemieke; Pijnenburg, Yolande; Schouws, Sigfried
- Publisher
- Physicians Postgraduate Press; Physicians Postgraduate Press, Inc.; Physicians Postgraduate Press, Inc (ISSN 0160-6689)
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)