title: Clinical update on frontotemporal dementia: diagnosis and treatment.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To provide a clinical update for general psychiatrists on frontotemporal dementias (FTDs) using a selective narrative review of recent findings and advances in conceptualising, diagnosing and treating FTD.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  General psychiatrists can apply their skills to support patients, carers, GPs and allied health workers in comprehensive care of persons with FTD.
authors.affiliation: Consultant Neuropsychiatrist, Neuropsychiatry Unit, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, University of Melbourne & Northwestern Mental Health, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
authors.forename: Ramon
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Mocellin
authors.affiliation: Formerly Senior Clinical Neuropsychologist, Neuropsychiatry Unit, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, University of Melbourne & Northwestern Mental Health, Melbourne, VIC, and; currently, Senior Clinical Neuropsychologist, Ponte Psychology, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
authors.forename: Amelia
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Scholes
authors.affiliation: Associate Professor and Consultant Neuropsychiatrist, Neuropsychiatry Unit, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, University of Melbourne & Northwestern Mental Health, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Walterfang
authors.affiliation: Associate Professor, Deputy Head and Consultant Neuropsychiatrist, Academic Unit of Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine, Australian National University Medical School, Canberra Hospital, Garran, ACT, Australia jeffrey.looi@anu.edu.au.
authors.forename: Jeffrey C L
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Looi
authors.affiliation: Professor, Director and Consultant Neuropsychiatrist, Neuropsychiatry Unit, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, University of Melbourne & Northwestern Mental Health, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
authors.forename: Dennis
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Velakoulis
mesh_terms: D057180:Frontotemporal Dementia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans
keywords: diagnosis; frontotemporal dementia; subtypes; treatment