title: Focal degenerative dementia syndromes.
abstract: Focal degenerative dementia syndromes are associated with a characteristic clinical picture, such as frontotemporal dementia, primary progressive aphasia, semantic dementia, corticobasal degeneration, and the Balint syndrome. A lobar approach may be used to classify the degenerative dementias. The underlying pathology of these various syndromes seems to be less heterogeneous than previously thought.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida 32224, USA.
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Arvanitakis
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Graff-Radford
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D018888:Aphasia, Primary Progressive / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis; D003704:Dementia / Q000145:classification* / Q000175:diagnosis*; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D015577:Geriatric Assessment; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008609:Mental Status Schedule; D008875:Middle Aged; D019636:Neurodegenerative Diseases / Q000145:classification* / Q000175:diagnosis*; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D013132:Spinocerebellar Degenerations / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis; D014055:Tomography, Emission-Computed; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed