Abstract
Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is a neurodegenerative disease which symptoms are the first signs of illness due to progressive nerve cell loss in the frontal and anterior temporal lobes. It represents the second most frequent form of early-onset dementia. There are three clinical subtypes: behavior variant of frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD), semantic dementia (SD), and progressive nonfluent aphasia. The neuroimagings such as MRI and SPECT help in the diagnosis of FTD on usual clinical aspects in Japan. In this chapter, the typical neuroimagings of FTD are demonstrated in each clinical subtypes.
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Nakano, S. (2017). Neuroimaging of Frontotemporal Lobe Degeneration. In: Matsuda, H., Asada, T., Tokumaru, A. (eds) Neuroimaging Diagnosis for Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-55133-1_13
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