title: Relapsing-remitting behavioural variant of frontotemporal dementia in a bipolar patient.
abstract: We report the case of a bipolar I patient who was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia at the age of 54 during a manic episode. Her neurological state improved when this episode ended. Each subsequent thymic relapse was associated with cognitive deﬁcits which subsided when the patient became euthymic, even though SPECT continued to show the same frontal hypoperfusion. We here discuss the hypothesis that the cognitive reserve of this patient, a former journalist, may, except during her mood episodes, have provided her with sufﬁcient resources to meet her life demands despite her underlying neurological disorder.
authors: Psychiatry Department, Fernand Widal Hospital, Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris, France. florence.vorspan@lrb.aphp.fr
authors: Florence
authors: F
authors: Vorspan
authors: Maxime
authors: M
authors: Bertoux
authors: Clara
authors: C
authors: Brichant-Petitjean
authors: Bruno
authors: B
authors: Dubois
authors: Jean-Pierre
authors: JP
authors: Lépine
mesh_terms: D001714:Bipolar Disorder / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000523:psychology; D058245:Cognitive Reserve; D015897:Comorbidity; D005260:Female; D057180:Frontotemporal Dementia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D012008:Recurrence; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
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