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Clinical Approach to the Differential Diagnosis Between Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia and Primary Psychiatric Disorders

Simon Ducharme, M.D., M.Sc., Bruce H. Price, M.D., Mykol Larvie, M.D., Ph.D., Darin D. Dougherty, M.D., M.Sc., and Bradford C. Dickerson, M.D.Authors Info & Affiliations
Publication: American Journal of Psychiatry
Volume 172, Number 9
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2015.14101248
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Volume 172 • Number 9 • September 01, 2015
Pages: 827 - 837
PubMed: 26324301

History

Received: 8 October 2014
Revision received: 18 February 2015
Accepted: 27 February 2015
Published online: 1 September 2015
Published in print: September 01, 2015

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Simon Ducharme, M.D., M.Sc.
From the Frontotemporal Disorders Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston; the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, the McGill University Health Centre, and the Departments of Psychiatry and of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University, Montreal; and the Departments of Neurology, Radiology, and Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston.
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Bruce H. Price, M.D.
From the Frontotemporal Disorders Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston; the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, the McGill University Health Centre, and the Departments of Psychiatry and of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University, Montreal; and the Departments of Neurology, Radiology, and Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston.
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Mykol Larvie, M.D., Ph.D.
From the Frontotemporal Disorders Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston; the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, the McGill University Health Centre, and the Departments of Psychiatry and of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University, Montreal; and the Departments of Neurology, Radiology, and Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston.
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Darin D. Dougherty, M.D., M.Sc.
From the Frontotemporal Disorders Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston; the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, the McGill University Health Centre, and the Departments of Psychiatry and of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University, Montreal; and the Departments of Neurology, Radiology, and Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston.
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Bradford C. Dickerson, M.D.
From the Frontotemporal Disorders Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston; the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, the McGill University Health Centre, and the Departments of Psychiatry and of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University, Montreal; and the Departments of Neurology, Radiology, and Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston.
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Address correspondence to Dr. Ducharme ([email protected]).

Competing Interests

Dr. Dougherty has received research support from Cyberonics, Eli Lilly, Medtronic, and Roche and honoraria or travel support from Insys, Johnson & Johnson, Medtronic, and Roche. Dr. Dickerson has served as a consultant for Best Doctors, Forum, Isis, Inc., Haymarket Media, and Piramal, has served on a data safety monitoring board for Merck, and receives royalties from Oxford University Press. The other authors report no financial relationships with commercial interests.

Funding Information

Sidney R. Baer, Jr. Foundation10.13039/100001479:
Dr. Ducharme’s fellowship was supported by the Sidney R. Baer, Jr., Foundation, the Fonds de Recherche du Québec–Santé, and the McGill University Health Centre Research Institute (Frank McGill Travel Fellowship).

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