title: The scale for emotional blunting in patients with frontotemporal dementia.
abstract: Emotional blunting may underlie many of the behavioral features of frontotemporal dementia (FTD). The Scale for Emotional Blunting (SEB) was evaluated in 12 patients with early FTD, 12 patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD), and 12 normal controls. There were overall group differences on the SEB, and the FTD patients had greater emotional blunting than the AD patients. The SEB had good inter-rater reliability and a sensitivity of 92%, and a specificity of 83.5% for FTD. These findings suggest that the SEB may be a good instrument for the early detection and quantification of emotional blunting in patient with FTD.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, University of California at Los Angeles, USA. mmendez@UCLA.edu
authors.forename: Mario F
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Mendez
authors.forename: Aaron
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: McMurtray
authors.forename: Eliot
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Licht
authors.forename: Jill S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Shapira
authors.forename: Ronald E
authors.initials: RE
authors.lastname: Saul
authors.forename: Bruce L
authors.initials: BL
authors.lastname: Miller
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000544:Alzheimer Disease / Q000503:physiopathology; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D003704:Dementia / Q000503:physiopathology*; D004644:Emotions / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D012372:ROC Curve; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity