Defining Neuropsychiatric Inventory scale differences across frontotemporal dementia syndromes.
Konstantina G YiannopoulouJohn D PapatriantafyllouApostolia GhikaNiki TsiniaEudoxia LykouEvaggelia HatziantoniouDimitrios AgiomyrgiannakisAndreas KyrozisSokratis G PapageorgiouPublished in: Psychogeriatrics : the official journal of the Japanese Psychogeriatric Society (2018)
Patients with bvFTD showed significantly greater neuropsychiatric dysfunction than those with the other FTD subtypes, as measured by the NPI scale. In contrast, patients with corticobasal syndrome had a comparatively healthier profile. Therefore, differential diagnosis among the FTD subtypes may be guided by the NPI, although the subtype is unlikely to be confirmed on the basis of NPI alone.