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Diencephalic versus Hippocampal Amnesia in Alzheimer’s Disease: The Possible Confabulation-Misidentification Phenotype

BACKGROUND: Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is clinically heterogeneous, including the classical-amnesic (CA-) phenotype and some variants. OBJECTIVE: We aim to describe a further presentation we (re)named confabulation-misidentification (CM-) phenotype. METHODS: We performed a retrospective longitudinal c...

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Autores principales: Abbate, Carlo, Trimarchi, Pietro D., Fumagalli, Giorgio G., Gallucci, Alessia, Tomasini, Emanuele, Fracchia, Stefania, Rebecchi, Isabella, Morello, Elisabetta, Fontanella, Anna, Parisi, Paola M.R., Tartarone, Federica, Giunco, Fabrizio, Ciccone, Simona, Nicolini, Paola, Lucchi, Tiziano, Arosio, Beatrice, Inglese, Silvia, Rossi, Paolo D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: IOS Press 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9881034/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36442200
http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/JAD-220919
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Sumario:BACKGROUND: Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is clinically heterogeneous, including the classical-amnesic (CA-) phenotype and some variants. OBJECTIVE: We aim to describe a further presentation we (re)named confabulation-misidentification (CM-) phenotype. METHODS: We performed a retrospective longitudinal case-series study of 17 AD outpatients with the possible CM-phenotype (CM-ADs). Then, in a cross-sectional study, we compared the CM-ADs to a sample of 30 AD patients with the CA-phenotype (CA-ADs). The primary outcome was the frequency of cognitive and behavioral features. Data were analyzed as differences in percentage by non-parametric Chi Square and mean differences by parametric T-test. RESULTS: Anterograde amnesia (100%) with early confabulation (88.2%), disorientation (88.2%) and non-infrequently retrograde amnesia (64.7%) associated with reduced insight (88.2%), moderate prefrontal executive impairment (94.1%) and attention deficits (82.3%) dominated the CM-phenotype. Neuropsychiatric features with striking misidentification (52.9%), other less-structured delusions (70.6%), and brief hallucinations (64.7%) were present. Marked behavioral disturbances were present early in some patients and very common at later stages. At the baseline, the CM-ADs showed more confabulation (p < 0.001), temporal disorientation (p < 0.02), misidentification (p = 0.013), other delusions (p = 0.002), and logorrhea (p = 0.004) than the CA-ADs. In addition, more social disinhibition (p = 0.018), reduction of insight (p = 0.029), and hallucination (p = 0.03) persisted at 12 months from baseline. Both the CA- and CM-ADs showed anterior and medial temporal atrophy. Compared to HCs, the CM-ADs showed more right fronto-insular atrophy, while the CA-ADs showed more dorsal parietal, precuneus, and right parietal atrophy. CONCLUSION: We described an AD phenotype resembling diencephalic rather than hippocampal amnesia and overlapping the past-century description of presbyophrenia.