Table 3.

The nature of compulsions in temporal variant frontotemporal dementia

	Compulsion type
Patient	Visual: objects as targets	Verbal: words and symbols as targets
LTLV
1	Recycling metal and plastic, stomping ants, weeding, gathering sticks in yard, collecting coins	Solitaire
2	Dish washing
4	Gardening, collecting coins
5	Cleaning
6	Sharing family photographs	Cataloguing daily event
RTLV
1		Concern over zip codes, Scrabble, solitaire, writing letters, notes to doctors
2	Skipping cracks in pavement	Solitaire
3	Gathering coins, brightly colored objects	Decoding word “jumbles”
4		Writing notes, names, and phone numbers
5		Solitaire, blackjack
6		Solitaire, Bible quotations

LTLV = left temporal lobe variant; RTLV = right temporal lobe variant.