Enhanced Positive Emotional Reactivity Undermines Empathy in Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia
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Behavioral-variant frontotemporal dementia
OBJECTIVE To identify distinct behavioral phenotypes of behavioral-variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) and to elucidate differences in functional, neuroimaging, and progression to residential care placement. METHODS Eighty-eight patients with bvFTD were included in a cluster analysis applying levels of disinhibition and apathy (Cambridge Behavioural Inventory-Revised) to identify phenotyp...
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عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Neurology
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1664-2295
DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2018.00402