title: [Frontotemporal dementia].
abstract: Defined barely one decade ago, Frontotemporal Dementia emerges as a new clinical entity that reestablishes the classical Pick's disease as part of a extensive syndrome with important and unsuspected prevalence. Frontotemporal Dementia includes all primary degenerative processes starting in the anterior portions of the brain. This type of dementia is clinically characterized by behavior and personality disorders, more than cognitive alterations. In the present research we performed a bibliographic review of the subject including clinical characteristics, laboratory tests, and neuropathology. Furthermore we assessed areas that require further development.
authors.affiliation: Dpt. of Psychiatry, University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois, 60612-7327,USA. doval@psych.uic.edu.
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Doval
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gaviria
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis; D003704:Dementia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004569:Electroencephalography; D005625:Frontal Lobe / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D013702:Temporal Lobe / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D014055:Tomography, Emission-Computed
vernacular_title: Demencia frontotemporal.