Pick complex and Pick's disease: the nosology of frontal lobe dementia, primary progressive aphasia, and corticobasal ganglionic degeneration

Kertesz, A.

doi:10.1111/j.1468-1331.1996.tb00438.x

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“…One suggestion is that the scope of the term Pick's disease be extended to cover all cases showing focal lobar atrophy and nonspecific spongiosis and/or gliosis without the changes of Alzheimer's disease [45]. This proposal would allow the diagnosis of most cases of Pick's disease to be made during life, on the basis of clinical and radiological information, but assumes that future refinements in molecular pathophysiology would not affect the unity of the classification.…”

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Semantic dementia: clinical, radiological and pathological perspectives

Garrard

Hodges

2000

Journal of Neurology

139

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Semantic dementia (SD) is a recently described clinical syndrome characterised by an acquired progressive inability to name or comprehend common concepts, with little or no distortion of the phonological and syntactic aspects of language, and relative sparing of other aspects of cognition, such as episodic memory, nonverbal problem-solving, and perceptual and visuo-spatial skills. The cognitive locus of this syndrome appears to lie in the permanent store of long-term memory representing general world knowledge-semantic memory. The anatomical distribution of atrophy is less well-defined, and the contribution of various imaging modalities is discussed in the context of a body of 45 published and unpublished cases. We conclude that involvement of the left infero-lateral temporal cortex is the critical area in the genesis of SD. SD probably always represents a non-Alzheimer neurodegenerative process; a variety of pathological lesions may be present, and possible causes, together with debates about their correct classification, are discussed.

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confidence: 98%

Semantic dementia: clinical, radiological and pathological perspectives

Garrard

Hodges

2000

Journal of Neurology

139

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“…All DAT patients, and most depressive patients scored below 24 points. Kertesz [14] notes, that the cutting points of FBInv may enable a grouping of the patients in order to perform a further examination. There are many inventories of behaviour evaluation that aim at screening deviant behaviours in geriatric, psychiatric or dementive patients [15–22].…”

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“…The aim of our research was to show the diagnostic value of FBInv [12–14, in distinguishing FTD from such syndromes as VAD or depression as well as in evaluating the efficacy of neurotherapy.…”

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Differential diagnosis of behavioral variant of fronto-temporal dementia (bvFTD)

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SummaryBackgroundThe aim of the paper is the differential diagnosis of various types of Fronto-Temporal Dementia (FTD), with the focus on its behavioural variant (bvFTD).Material/MethodMaterial and Method. Screening was done in order to assess the depth of dementia with the short version of MMSE, while evaluation of various variants of FTD was performed with the use of such neuropsychological tests as Newcomb and Chicago Fluency Tests, Wechsler Memory Scale - III (WMS-III), Western Aphasia Battery (WAB-R), and the Boston Naming Test (BNT). Behaviour was evaluated with a Polish version of the Frontal Behavioral Inventory (FBInv). The inventory consists of 24 questions which enable an evaluation of social behaviour disorders. The study included 112 patients - 68 men and 46 women treated in the Reintegrative -Training Centre of the Foundation for Persons with Brain Dysfunctions in Kraków and in the Clinic for Developmental Psychiatry, Psychotic Disorders and Old Age Psychiatry, of the Medical University at Gdańsk, who were suffering from various types of dementia.ResultsIt was found that FTD patients scored the highest, while the VAD patients scored somewhat lower in the FBInv. At the same time the scores obtained by PPA patients were higher in comparison to the control groups, but not as high as in the case of patients with FTD. In the process of the neurotherapy of FTD patients we found a reduction of the behavioral disturbances, despite the progression of the illness.ConclusionsThe results obtained in the present study confirmed the diagnostic value of FBInv in the differential diagnosis of various types of FTD and in the evaluation of neurotherapy efficacy.

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Classification and Diagnosis of Dementias

Boller¹,

Traykov²

1999

Dementias

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Pick complex and Pick's disease: the nosology of frontal lobe dementia, primary progressive aphasia, and corticobasal ganglionic degeneration

Cited by 14 publications

References 32 publications

Semantic dementia: clinical, radiological and pathological perspectives

Semantic dementia: clinical, radiological and pathological perspectives

Differential diagnosis of behavioral variant of fronto-temporal dementia (bvFTD)

Classification and Diagnosis of Dementias

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