A Case of Rapidly Progressing Frontotemporal Dementia

Frontotemporal dementia commonly presents as a gradual change in personality, social conduct, and language ability, often sparing memory loss in early stages. We report a case of a 55-year-old female with rapid progression of memory impairment and other cognitive functions in a span of 2 years.

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Autores principales: Purkayastha, Debasweta, Arathil, Praveen, Narayanan, Dinesh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5795686/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29403137
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/IJPSYM.IJPSYM_66_17
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spelling pubmed-57956862018-02-05 A Case of Rapidly Progressing Frontotemporal Dementia Purkayastha, Debasweta Arathil, Praveen Narayanan, Dinesh Indian J Psychol Med Case Report Frontotemporal dementia commonly presents as a gradual change in personality, social conduct, and language ability, often sparing memory loss in early stages. We report a case of a 55-year-old female with rapid progression of memory impairment and other cognitive functions in a span of 2 years. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC5795686/ /pubmed/29403137 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/IJPSYM.IJPSYM_66_17 Text en Copyright: © 2018 Indian Psychiatric Society - South Zonal Branch http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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