title: Progressive right frontotemporal degeneration: clinical, neuropsychological and SPECT characteristics.
abstract: The behavioral, neuropsychological and single photon emission computerized tomography characteristics of 5 patients with progressive degeneration of the right hemisphere are described. In all, the brain regions with greatest involvement were right-frontal and temporal. Psychosis, compulsions and behavioral disinhibition were the dominant, and often first, symptoms. Affect was flattened and the patients seemed distant and remote. Neuropsychological testing did not reveal a consistent pattern that helped localize the abnormality to the right frontotemporal region. These patients contrast dramatically to those with left frontotemporal degeneration in whom behavior and psychiatric status is often normal. This study suggests that the right hemisphere may be primary for the control of social conduct.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center.
authors.forename: B L
authors.initials: BL
authors.lastname: Miller
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Chang
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Mena
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Boone
authors.forename: I M
authors.initials: IM
authors.lastname: Lesser
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002560:Cerebrovascular Circulation / Q000502:physiology; D003704:Dementia / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology* / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D005625:Frontal Lobe / Q000098:blood supply / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D007839:Functional Laterality; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009410:Nerve Degeneration; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D015609:Organotechnetium Compounds; D010091:Oximes; D019690:Technetium Tc 99m Exametazime; D013702:Temporal Lobe / Q000098:blood supply / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon; D014980:Xenon Radioisotopes
chemical_list: D015609:Organotechnetium Compounds; D010091:Oximes; D014980:Xenon Radioisotopes; D019690:Technetium Tc 99m Exametazime