ArticleDementia and geriatric cognitive disorders extra2012
The Relationship between Subclinical Asperger's Syndrome and Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration.
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- Cognitive and brain morphological deviations in middle-to-old aged autistic adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2024Pooled it
- Phenocopy syndrome of behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia: a systematic review.Alzheimer's research & therapy · 2019Pooled it
- Autism and Dementia: A Summative Report from the 2nd International Summit on Intellectual Disabilities and Dementia.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Review
- Epidemiology of Alzheimer Disease and Related Dementia Among Medicare and Medicaid Enrolled Autistic Adults, 2011-2019.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2025Article
- Predictors of probable attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in elderly patients with mild cognitive impairment visiting a memory clinic.PCN reports : psychiatry and clinical neurosciences · 2023Article
- Frontotemporal neurofibrillary tangles and cerebrovascular lesions are associated with autism spectrum behaviors in late-life dementia.Journal of neurology · 2022Article
- Comparison of behaviors characteristic of autism spectrum disorder behaviors and behavioral and psychiatric symptoms of dementia.Aging & mental health · 2022Article
- Clinical features of behavioral symptoms in patients with semantic dementia: Does semantic dementia cause autistic traits?PloS one · 2021Article
- Progressive amnestic cognitive impairment in a middle-aged patient with developmental language disorder: a case report.Journal of medical case reports · 2020Article
- The effects of context processing on social cognition impairments in adults with Asperger's syndrome.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2014Review
- Behaviors Characteristic of Autism Spectrum Disorder in a Geriatric Cohort With Mild Cognitive Impairment or Early Dementia.Alzheimer disease and associated disordersArticle
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Abstract
BACKGROUND/
aimsThe existence of the behavioral variant of frontotemporal dementia (bv-FTD), including senile Asperger's syndrome (AS), has been proposed. However, there are no empirical case reports to support the proposal. In this report, we present 3 patients who showed symptoms of bv-FTD and demonstrated signs of autistic spectrum disorder, especially AS.
methodsWe evaluated 3 subjects using the diagnostic criteria for bv-FTD, and their caregivers retrospectively provided data to calculate the Autism-Spectrum Quotient, Japanese version [Wakabayashi et al.: Shinrigaku Kenkyu 2004;75:78-84]. We also compared these data with those obtained from 3 individuals with Alzheimer's disease.
resultsAll 3 patients met the criteria for bv-FTD and had a higher Autism-Spectrum Quotient score than did comparable Alzheimer's disease subjects.
conclusionIt is possible that some senile persons with frontotemporal lobar degeneration-like maladaptive behavior may suffer from subclinical AS.
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