Improvement in athletic performance as an early symptom of behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia

J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci. 2015;27(2):e163-4. doi: 10.1176/appi.neuropsych.14060136.

Authors

Simon Ducharme¹, Bradford C Dickerson, Bruce H Price

Affiliation

¹ From the Behavioral Neurology and Neuropsychiatry Clinic (SD, BHP), Dept. of Neurology, McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA; Depts. of Psychiatry (SD) and Neurology (SD, BCD, BHP), Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; Dept. of Psychiatry (SD), McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC (Canada); and McConnell Brain Imaging Centre (SD), Montreal Neurological Institute, Montreal, QC (Canada).

PMID: 25923870
DOI: 10.1176/appi.neuropsych.14060136

No abstract available

Publication types

Case Reports
Letter

MeSH terms

Athletic Performance / physiology*
Cognition Disorders / etiology
Female
Frontotemporal Dementia / complications*
Frontotemporal Dementia / pathology
Humans
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Mental Disorders / etiology*
Middle Aged
Neuropsychological Tests
Prefrontal Cortex / pathology