• DOI:10.1159/000017251
Corpus ID: 22599923

First Symptoms – Frontotemporal Dementia versus Alzheimer’s Disease

@article{Lindau2000FirstS,
  title={First Symptoms – Frontotemporal Dementia versus Alzheimer’s Disease},
  author={M. Lindau and O. Almkvist and J. Kushi and K. Boone and S. Johansson and L. O. Wahlund and J. Cummings and B. Miller},
  journal={Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders},
  year={2000},
  volume={11},
  pages={286 - 293}
}

M. Lindau, O. Almkvist, +5 authors B. Miller

Published 2000

Psychology, Medicine

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is often misdiagnosed as Alzheimer’s disease (AD). We hypothesized that the first symptoms associated with FTD would be different from those seen in AD and that the first symptoms in FTD would reflect loss of function in the frontal region with the greatest degree of degeneration. The objective of the study was to compare the earliest symptoms in patients with FTD and AD, and to delineate the symptoms that were associated with right, left or bilateral… CONTINUE READING

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