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ArticleAlzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands)2018

A very light lunch: Interoceptive deficits and food aversion at onset in a case of behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia.

Gerardo Salvato, Matteo Mercurio, Maurizio Sberna, Eraldo Paulesu, Gabriella Bottini

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Article in Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Gerardo SalvatoDepartment of Brain and Behavioral Sciences, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy.
Matteo MercurioNeurodegenerative Disease Unit, Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation, Centro Dino Ferrari, University of Milan, Fondazione Ca' Granda IRCCS Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy.
Maurizio SbernaDepartment of Neuroradiology, ASST Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda, Milano, Italy.
Eraldo PaulesuDepartment of Psychology, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy.
Gabriella BottiniDepartment of Brain and Behavioral Sciences, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy.
University of Pavia · ITAzienda Socio Sanitaria Territoriale Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda · ITFondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico · ITIstituto Ortopedico Galeazzi · IT

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionPatients affected by the behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) frequently experience, at a delayed onset, abnormal eating behavior involving increased food intake. Although delusional food-related symptoms have attracted much attention, the behavioral and neural features of food aversion manifestations in bvFTD remain poorly documented.

methodsWe describe the rare case of a patient with bvFTD presenting with lack of interoception for swallowing and digestion, coupled with a dramatic food aversion at onset. We also compared his MRI scan to 84 healthy individuals using a voxel-based morphometry approach.

resultsWe found gray matter density reductions involving the postcentral gyrus bilaterally, insulae, and right medial orbitofrontal cortex. DISCUSSION: Our results shed new light on the behavioral and neuroanatomical features of food aversion and interoception deficits in bvFTD, suggesting that besides orbitofrontal cortex, also a distributed system associated with interoception might play a role in such behavioral manifestation.

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Behavioral variant frontotemporal dementiaEating disturbancesInsulaInteroceptionVoxel-based morphometry

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PMID30480080
PMCPMC6240841
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