Clinical Approach to the Differential Diagnosis Between Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia and Primary Psychiatric Disorders
A middle-aged woman with obsessive-compulsive symptoms with atypical features is seen for a diagnostic neuropsychiatric assessment.
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Overlap and Differences Between bvFTD and Primary Psychiatric Disorders
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Major Depressive Disorder
Bipolar Disorder
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Schizophrenia
Catatonia
Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Personality Traits and Personality Disorders
Nonprogressive bvFTD
Psychiatric Disorders as a Prodrome of bvFTD
Clinical Approach
Cognitive Testing
Neuroimaging
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