Evaluation of Emotional Blunting in Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia Compared to Alzheimer's Disease | Zendy

Simantini J. Karve | Zendy; Joseph P. Barsuglia | Zendy; Michelle Mather | Zendy; Elvira Jimenez | Zendy; Jill Shapira | Zendy; Mario F. Mendez | Zendy

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Evaluation of Emotional Blunting in Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia Compared to Alzheimer's Disease

Author(s) -

Simantini J. Karve,

Joseph P. Barsuglia,

Michelle Mather,

Elvira Jimenez,

Jill Shapira,

Mario F. Mendez

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.026

H-Index - 110

eISSN - 1421-9824

pISSN - 1420-8008

DOI - 10.1159/000357838

Subject(s) - frontotemporal dementia , dementia , psychology , disease , distress , psychiatry , clinical psychology , alzheimer's disease , emotional distress , medicine , anxiety

Emotional blunting is a major clinical feature of behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD). Assessing the change in emotional blunting may facilitate the differential diagnosis of this disorder and can quantify a major source of distress for the patients' caregivers and families.

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