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Familial frontotemporal dementia associated with a novel presenilin-1 mutation.
Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders - 1 Jan 2002
Tang-Wai D, Lewis P, Boeve Bradley, Hutton M, Golde T, Baker M, Hardy J, Michels V, Ivnik R, Jack C, Petersen R
Abstract excerpt
We report a kindred with three cases of dementia. The proband presented with forgetfulness and personality changes at age 56, followed shortly thereafter by behavioral dyscontrol, hyperphagia, hypersexuality, delusions, illusions, disinhibition and double incontinence. Neuroimaging studies were consistent with frontotemporal dementia (FTD). In one allele, an arginine insertion at codon 352 in the presenilin 1...
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