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Early onset frontotemporal dementia with psychiatric presentation due to the C9ORF72 hexanucleotide repeat expansion: a case report.
BMC neurology - 30 Nov 2014
Gramaglia Carla, Cantello Roberto, Terazzi Emanuela, Carecchio Miryam, D'Alfonso Sandra, Chieppa Nunzia, Ressico Francesca, Rizza Maria Cristina, Zeppegno Patrizia
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) may present with psychiatric symptoms, usually together with neurological ones and in cases with a family history of dementia. We describe the case of an FTD behavioural variant with a psychiatric presentation and a normal neurological examination, due to a C9Orf72 gene mutation. CASE PRESENTATION: The patient was a 57 years-old Caucasian woman with a recent onset of...
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