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. 2016 Jun 1;6(2):205–213. doi: 10.1159/000444848

Table 1.

Frequency of co-occurring language and behavioural features in patients with FTLD pathology

Early behavioural disinhibition (n = 59; 4 missing) Early apathy or inertia (n = 53; 6 missing) Early loss of sympathy or empathy (n = 39; 16 missing) Early perseverative, stereotyped or compulsive/ritualistic behaviour (n = 55; 5 missing) Hyperorality and dietary changes (n = 32; 28 missing) Executive/generation deficits (n = 59; 13 missing)
AOS (n = 4; 2 missing) 1 1 1 1 1 3

Agrammatism (n = 8; 4 missing) 5 6 4 4 0 6

Impaired comprehension of complex syntax (n = 35; 22 missing) 24 25 20 23 10 32

Phonemic errors (n = 12; 4 missing) 9 7 4 6 4 7

Impaired sentence repetition (n = 22; 22 missing) 13 12 10 13 5 16

Impaired naming (n = 53; 2 missing) 41 30 26 39 22 36

Impaired word comprehension (n = 21; 3 missing) 19 10 11 18 11 13

Impaired object knowledge (n = 18; 6 missing) 15 8 10 16 11 10

Surface dyslexia (n = 14; 10 missing) 11 5 6 11 6 7

Semantic paraphasias (n = 17; 1 missing) 14 8 8 14 7 10

Stereotyped speech (n = 27; 5 missing) 21 15 17 27 15 21

Idiosyncratic speech (n = 13; 1 missing) 10 8 8 10 5 10

Economy of speech (n = 47; 0 missing) 35 35 25 36 21 36

Echolalia (n = 16; 0 missing) 14 11 13 14 10 13

Perseverative speech (n = 25; 3 missing) 21 19 16 21 10 16

n = Number of patients exhibiting each behavioural (column) and language (row) symptom; missing = number of patients with missing data for that particular feature.