Frontotemporal dementia

A dementia disorder characterized by progressive deterioration of personality, social conduct, and language with relative preservation of memory in early stages. Onset is typically in middle age (before age 65). Caused by frontotemporal lobar degeneration.

Symptoms

• Early personality change and social disinhibition (also: Personality change, social disinhibition, inappropriate social behavior, personality deterioration, early social behavior change in FTD)
• Impulsivity and disinhibition (also: Impulsivity, disinhibition, impulsive acts, socially inappropriate impulsive behavior, loss of social restraint)
• Apathy and loss of motivation (also: Apathy, loss of motivation, emotional blunting, reduced interest, passivity and abulia)
• Language and speech disturbances (also: Language disturbances, primary progressive aphasia, word-finding difficulty, reduced speech output, semantic variant PPA)
• Euphoria or inappropriately cheerful mood (also: Euphoria, inappropriate cheerfulness, fatuous affect, childish behavior, moria)
• Extrapyramidal signs (rigidity, tremor) (also: Extrapyramidal signs, parkinsonism in FTD, rigidity, motor slowing, movement abnormalities)
• Onset in middle age (presenile onset) (also: Middle-age onset, presenile dementia, onset before 65, young-onset dementia, frontotemporal dementia in 50s–60s)
• Memory relatively preserved early, declining late (also: Late memory impairment, memory preserved in early FTD, personality change before memory loss, non-amnestic dementia initially, executive deficits precede memory loss)

Synonyms and related terms

Personality change, social disinhibition, inappropriate social behavior, personality deterioration, early social behavior change in FTD, Impulsivity, disinhibition, impulsive acts, socially inappropriate impulsive behavior, loss of social restraint, Apathy, loss of motivation, emotional blunting, reduced interest, passivity and abulia, Language disturbances, primary progressive aphasia, word-finding difficulty, reduced speech output, semantic variant PPA, Euphoria, inappropriate cheerfulness, fatuous affect, childish behavior, moria, Extrapyramidal signs, parkinsonism in FTD, rigidity, motor slowing, movement abnormalities

Frequently asked questions

What are the symptoms of Frontotemporal dementia?

Symptoms associated with Frontotemporal dementia (ICD-11 6D83) include: Early personality change and social disinhibition, Impulsivity and disinhibition, Apathy and loss of motivation, Language and speech disturbances, Euphoria or inappropriately cheerful mood, Extrapyramidal signs (rigidity, tremor), Onset in middle age (presenile onset), Memory relatively preserved early, declining late.

WHO ICD-11 source

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