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| Behavioral differences between frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease: a comparison on the BEHAVE-AD rating scale | | Author(s) | Mario F Mendez, Kent M Perryman, Bruce L Miller |
| Journal title | International Psychogeriatrics, vol 10, no 2, June 1998 |
| Pages | pp 155-162 |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Evaluation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is a dementing symptom characterised by the occurrence of neuropsychiatric features early in the clinical course. Patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) also have neuropsychiatric symptoms, but later in the course after the development of memory and other cognitive impairment. The BEHAVE-AD, an instrument developed to evaluate neuropsychiatric features in dementia, may help characterise the behavioural features of FTD and differentiate FTD from AD. This study evaluated BEHAVE-AD results of 29 patients with the diagnosis of FTD compared to those of 29 patients with the diagnosis of probable AD of similar dementia severity. The FTD patients had significantly worse global BEHAVE-AD scores compared to the AD patients. Verbal outbursts and inappropriate activity characterised the FTD patients, and three BEHAVE-AD subscales correctly classified 69% of the patients. The assessment of neuropsychiatric symptoms with a standardised scale or inventory can help distinguish dementia patients with FTD and AD. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-981103403 A |
| Classmark | EA: 4C: 7T |
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