Diagnostic Accuracy of Affective Social Tasks in the Clinical Classification Between the Behavioral Variant of Frontotemporal Dementia and Other Neurodegenerative Disease

• Published in: Journal of Alzheimer's disease Vol. 80; no. 4; p. 1401
• Main Authors: Dodich, Alessandra, Crespi, Chiara, Santi, Gaia C, Luzzi, Simona, Ranaldi, Valentina, Iannaccone, Sandro, Marcone, Alessandra, Zamboni, Michele, Cappa, Stefano F, Cerami, Chiara
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Netherlands 01.01.2021
• Subjects: empathy; Accuracy; social cognition; cognitive marker; diagnosis; frontotemporal dementia; behavioral variant of frontotemporal dementia; emotion recognition

Severe socio-emotional impairments characterize the behavioral variant of frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD). However, literature reports social cognition disorders in other dementias. In this study, we investigated the accuracy of social cognition performances in the early and differential diagnosis o...