Clinical Approach to the Differential Diagnosis Between Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia and Primary Psychiatric Disorders

Am J Psychiatry. 2015 Sep 1;172(9):827-37. doi: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2015.14101248.

Authors

Simon Ducharme¹, Bruce H Price¹, Mykol Larvie¹, Darin D Dougherty¹, Bradford C Dickerson¹

Affiliation

¹ From the Frontotemporal Disorders Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston; the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, the McGill University Health Centre, and the Departments of Psychiatry and of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University, Montreal; and the Departments of Neurology, Radiology, and Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston.

PMID: 26324301
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2015.14101248

No abstract available

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Autism Spectrum Disorder / diagnosis
Autism Spectrum Disorder / psychology
Bipolar Disorder / diagnosis
Bipolar Disorder / psychology
Catatonia / diagnosis
Catatonia / psychology
Depressive Disorder, Major / diagnosis
Depressive Disorder, Major / psychology
Diagnosis, Differential
Frontotemporal Dementia / diagnosis*
Frontotemporal Dementia / psychology
Frontotemporal Dementia / therapy
Humans
Mental Disorders / diagnosis*
Mental Disorders / psychology
Mental Disorders / therapy
Neuroimaging
Neuropsychological Tests
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / diagnosis
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / psychology
Personality Disorders / diagnosis
Personality Disorders / psychology
Schizophrenia / diagnosis
Schizophrenic Psychology