In an era of etiology-specific therapies, defining the criteria for behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia is essential. How do we determine whether bad manners, laziness, or unsolicited friendliness represents the earliest presentation of this condition? Diagnostic criteria are being actively evaluated to help establish a foundation for diagnostic decisions regarding this and other neurodegenerative diseases.
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M. Grossman has received research support from the NIH and has acted as a consultant for Allon Pharmaceutical.
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Grossman, M. What is behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia?. Nat Rev Neurol 5, 358–359 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrneurol.2009.81
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