Behavioural and neuropsychiatric disturbance in three clinical subtypes of frontotemporal dementia: A Clinical Research Center for Dementia of South Korea-FTD Study

Moon Ho Park, Eun Joo Kim, Kyung Won Park, Jae Cheol Kwon, Bon D. Ku, Seol Heui Han, Sang Yun Kim, Dong Won Yang, Duk L. Na, Seong Hye Choi

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Abstract

Objectives: To characterise the behavioural and neuropsychiatric disturbances of patients with three clinical subtypes of frontotemporal dementia (FTD): behavioural variant FTD (bvFTD), semantic dementia (SD) and progressive non-fluent aphasia (PNFA). Methods: Consecutive series of 66 patients with bvFTD, 58 patients with SD and 21 patients with PNFA were compared using the Frontal Behavioural Inventory (FBI) and the Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI). Results: Patients with bvFTD had more behavioural and neuropsychiatric disturbances than patients with PNFA based on the total scores of FBI and NPI. When comparing subtotal and item scores of FBI and NPI, there were some significant differences among three clinical subtypes of FTD. Conclusion: There are some distinct patterns of behavioural and neuropsychiatric disturbance among three clinical subtypes of FTD.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)46-51
Number of pages6
JournalAustralasian Journal on Ageing
Volume36
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2017 Mar 1
Externally publishedYes

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This study was supported mainly by grants of the Korea Healthcare Technology R&D Project, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Republic of Korea (HI12C0135), and the Original Technology Research Program for Brain Science through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Korean Government (MSIP) (No. 2014M3C7A1064752) and partially by a grant of Korea University. The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 AJA Inc.

Keywords

  • behavioural symptoms
  • brief psychiatric rating scale
  • frontotemporal dementia

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Community and Home Care
  • Geriatrics and Gerontology

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