Open AccessEvaluation of Emotional Blunting in Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia Compared to Alzheimer's Disease
Author(s) -
Aditi Joshi,
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.