[Neuropsychological assessment in the diagnosis and differential diagnosis of fronto-temporal dementia].

摘要: Clinical diagnosis of fronto-temporal dementia (FTD) and its rare variants (semantic primary progressive aphasia) represents a special challenge bearing in mind difficulties is important due to therapeutic differences with the most common Alzheimer's dementia. Of note, cholinesterase inhibitors commonly prescribed disease are not effective FTD novel drug, memantine, has been evaluated as yet. Neuropsychological evaluation an add-on neurological, psychiatric neuroimaging assessments clinical FTD. In this paper, we have described characteristics neuropsychological deficits observed (such attention, language, visuospatial memory impairments) well tools used (tests) practice. Special attention paid utility examination differential versus disease, vascular other, less forms