title: The overlap of symptomatic dimensions between frontotemporal dementia and several psychiatric disorders that appear in late adulthood.
abstract: Several factors make diagnosis of a possible behavioural variant of frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) particularly challenging, especially the overlap of certain symptomatic dimensions such as apathy, disinhibition, depression, anhedonia, stereotyped behaviour, and psychosis between bvFTD and several psychiatric disorders that appear in late adulthood. We discuss the most frequent psychiatric conditions that can simulate early bvFTD symptoms, including late onset bipolar disorder, late onset schizophrenia-like psychosis, late onset depression, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in middle and older age.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Cognitive Neurology INECO, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
authors.forename: Mariangeles
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pose
authors.forename: Marcelo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Cetkovich
authors.forename: Ezequiel
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Gleichgerrcht
authors.forename: Agustin
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ibáñez
authors.forename: Teresa
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Torralva
authors.forename: Facundo
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Manes
mesh_terms: D017668:Age of Onset; D000368:Aged; D001289:Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D001714:Bipolar Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D003865:Major Depressive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D057180:Frontotemporal Dementia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D008875:Middle Aged; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000175:diagnosis