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ReviewAmerican journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias2017

Diogenes Syndrome in Frontotemporal Dementia.

Catherine M Finney, Mario F Mendez

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Review in American journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
8citing papers in PubMed
7.9field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Characteristics of Older Adults With Domestic Squalor in Japan: A Cross-Sectional Study.Psychogeriatrics : the official journal of the Japanese Psychogeriatric Society · 2026
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  4. Cognitive and behavioural inhibition deficits in neurodegenerative dementias.Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior · 2020
    Review
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  7. Repetitive Behaviors in Frontotemporal Dementia: Compulsions or Impulsions?The Journal of neuropsychiatry and clinical neurosciences · 2019
    Article
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Catherine M Finney1 University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN, USA.
Mario F Mendez2 Department of Neurology and Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
University of California, Los Angeles · USUniversity of Notre Dame · US

Funding

Multidisciplinary Study of Social Behavior and Emotion in Frontotemporal DementiaR01AG034499 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI MENDEZ, MARIO F. · 2009 to 2013
$1.9M
NIA NIH HHS R01 AG034499
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Diogenes syndrome refers to the combination of extreme self-neglect and excessive collecting with clutter and squalor, which is often present in patients with dementia. Diogenes syndrome may be particularly common in behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD), and the investigation of these patients may help clarify the nature of this syndrome. We describe 5 patients with bvFTD who exhibited a decline in self-care accompanied by hoarding behaviors. These patients, and a review of the literature, suggest a combination of frontal lobe disturbances: loss of insight or self-awareness with a failure to clean up or discard, a general compulsive drive, and an innate impulse to take environmental items. This impulse may be part of the environmental dependency syndrome in frontal disease, with specific involvement of a right frontolimbic-striatal system. Further investigation of the similarities and mechanisms of these symptoms in bvFTD could help in understanding Diogenes syndrome and lead to potential treatment options.

Indexed as

Frontotemporal DementiaProblem BehaviorSelf CareAgedHumansSocial IsolationdementiaDiogenes syndromefrontotemporal dementiahoardingself-neglectsyllogomania

Identifiers

PMID28660777
PMCPMC10852732
OpenAlexW2728020307

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