Young‐onset dementia | Magnetic resonance imaging: areas affected | Positron emission tomography: areas affected | Other imaging modalities |
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Alzheimer disease |
Hippocampus Medial temporal lobes |
Precuneus Posterior cingulate Parietotemporal |
Amyloid‐β positron emission tomography |
Posterior cortical atrophy | Posterior/occipital regions | Parietooccipital cortices | Amyloid‐β positron emission tomography |
Behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia | Frontal (medial, orbitofrontal, anterior insula) | Frontotemporal | |
Semantic frontotemporal dementia | Anterior temporal | Frontal midline structure (cingulate, orbitofrontal and anterior medial cortices, insula) | |
Progressive non‐fluent aphasia | Frontotemporal region of left side: inferior frontal region, dorsolateral prefrontal, Broca and Wernicke area, and inferior temporal regions |