TABLE 1.
Neuropsychological Test Performance in 11 Patients with Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia
| Mean (Standard Error of the Mean) | |||
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| Neuropsychiatric Inventory1 | Frequency | Severity | Frequency-by-Severity |
| Apathy/indifference | 2.5 (0.5) | 1.6 (0.3) | 5.2 (1.3) |
| Disinhibition | 2.2 (0.3) | 1.6 (0.2) | 4.0 (1.1) |
| Delusions | 0.3 (0.3) | 0.3 (0.3) | 0.5 (0.4) |
| Hallucinations | 0.2 (0.6) | 0.2 (0.4) | 0.5 (0.5) |
| Depression/dysphoria | 1.0 (0.4) | 0.6 (0.3) | 1.6 (0.8) |
| Anxiety | 1.8 (0.2) | 1.0 (0.2) | 2.6 (0.8) |
| Irritability/lability | 2.0 (0.3) | 1.3 (0.2) | 3.2 (0.8) |
| Agitation | 1.7 (0.2) | 1.2 (0.2) | 2.6 (0.7) |
| Euphoria/elation | 1.6 (0.3) | 0.7 (0.3) | 2.2 (0.9) |
| Aberrant motor behavior | 2.7 (0.2) | 1.4 (0.3) | 4.2 (1.0) |
| Sleep/nighttime behavior | 1.9 (0.4) | 0.7 (0.2) | 2.2 (0.6) |
| Appetite/eating | 3.1 (0.2) | 1.9 (0.2) | 6.7 (1.2) |
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| Mini-Mental State Examination2 (maximum 30) | 25.0 (1.4) | ||
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| Philadelphia Brief Assessment of Cognition3 | |||
| Executive scale (maximum 17)* | 8.7 (1.1) | ||
| Language scale (maximum 19)* | 14.5 (1.3) | ||
| Visual scale (maximum 18)* | 15.1 (1.2) | ||
| Memory scale (maximum 21)* | 11.9 (2.0) | ||
| Behavioral scale (maximum 18)† | 10.9 (1.1) | ||
| Total score (maximum 93)* | 60.9 (4.5) | ||
*
Scores for 9 patients.
†
Score for 10 patients.