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Current Potential for Clinical Optimization of Social Cognition Assessment for Frontotemporal Dementia and Primary Psychiatric Disorders

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Dodich and colleagues recently reviewed the evidence supporting clinical use of social cognition assessment in behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (Dodich et al., 2021). Here, we comment on their methods and present an initiative to address some of the limitations that emerged from their study. In particular, we established the social cognition workgroup within the Neuropsychiatric International Consortium Frontotemporal dementia (scNIC-FTD), aiming to validate social cognition assessment for diagnostic purposes and tracking of change across clinical situations.

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JV is supported by the Research Council KU Leuven (C24/18/095 and IDN21/010) and the Sequoia Fund for research on ageing and mental health. SD is supported by the Fonds de Recherche du Québec -Santé. YP is supported by Stichting Dioraphte. FK is supported by a National Health and Medical Research Council Career Development Fellowship (GNT1158762).

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  1. Leuven Brain Institute, Department of Neurosciences, Research Group Psychiatry, Neuropsychiatry, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

    Jan Van den Stock

  2. Geriatric Psychiatry, University Psychiatric Centre KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

    Jan Van den Stock

  3. Lille Neurosciences & Cognition Institute, Labex DISTALZ, Univ. Lille, Inserm, CHU Lille, Lille, France

    Maxime Bertoux & Florence Pasquier

  4. School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

    Janine Diehl-Schmid

  5. Brain and Mind Centre and School of Psychology, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

    Olivier Piguet & Fiona Kumfor

  6. Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Katherine P. Rankin

  7. Department of Psychiatry, Douglas Mental Health University Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

    Simon Ducharme

  8. McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

    Simon Ducharme

  9. Department of Neurology, Alzheimer Center Amsterdam, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Yolande Pijnenburg

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Van den Stock, J., Bertoux, M., Diehl-Schmid, J. et al. Current Potential for Clinical Optimization of Social Cognition Assessment for Frontotemporal Dementia and Primary Psychiatric Disorders. Neuropsychol Rev 33, 544–550 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11065-022-09554-3

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