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Kraepelin's description of chronic mania: a clinical picture that meets the behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia phenotype.
Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria - 1 Sept 2016
Gambogi Leandro Boson, Guimarães Henrique Cerqueira, Daker Maurício Viotti, de Souza Leonardo Cruz, Caramelli Paulo
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Chronic mania is an under-investigated condition and few reports have associated this disorder with an organic background. The present work examines Kraepelin's reliable description of chronic mania from a current behavioral neurology viewpoint. Kraepelin had described a cluster of symptoms that are now recognized as core manifestations of the behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) clinical phenotype....
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