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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Neurodegener Dis Manag. 2011 Apr;1(2):141–156. doi: 10.2217/nmt.11.9

Table 2.

Clinical symptoms that can be associated with frontotemporal dementia phenotypes.

Clinical category of signs and symptoms Specific clinical features
Cognitive Executive, attention, memory, language, praxis impairments
Behavioral Socially inappropriate behavior, loss of interpersonal skills, personality change
Psychiatric Abulia, apathy, obsessive–compulsive tendencies, depression, anxiety, motor restlessness, irritability, agitation, lability of mood, pseudobulbar affect
Motor Rigidity, bradykinesia, muscle atrophy, fasciculations, bulbar motor involvement including swallowing difficulties, extraocular movement abnormalities, falls
Sensory (common in corticobasal dementia, and rare in other forms of frontotemporal dementia) Extinction to double simultaneous stimulation, agraphesthesia, astereoagnosis