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Evaluation of Discriminative Detection Abilities of Social Cognition Measures for the Diagnosis of the Behavioral Variant of Frontotemporal Dementia: a Systematic Review.
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- Facial expression recognition deficits in frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease: a meta-analytic investigation of effects of phenotypic variant, task modality, geographical region and symptomatic specificity.Journal of neurology · 2023Pooled it
- Social Cognition in Adult ADHD: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Pooled it
- Theory of mind in patients with mild cognitive impairment: A systematic review.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Pooled it
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- Commentary on Ziermans, Hadjúk, Pinkham et al. "Call to action on social cognition measures in clinical research" and on Happé's commentary to the call to action.Schizophrenia research. Cognition · 2026Article
- International consensus for the assessment of social cognition in neurocognitive disorders: framework definition and clinical recommendations of the SIGNATURE initiative.Alzheimer's research & therapy · 2025Article
- Classification of AD and bvFTD using neuropsychological and neuropsychiatric variables: a machine learning study.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2025Article
- Understanding barriers and optimizing socio-cognitive assessment in the diagnosis of neurocognitive disorders.Journal of neuropsychology · 2025Article
- Differentiating sporadic frontotemporal dementia from late-onset primary psychiatric disorders.Brain communications · 2025Article
- Emerging Theories of Allostatic-Interoceptive Overload in Neurodegeneration.Current topics in behavioral neurosciences · 2025Review
- Understanding basic and social emotions in Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- The 36-Item Yoni Task: Normative Data for the Clinical Assessment of Theory of Mind.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Answer to "Current Potential for Clinical Optimization of Social Cognition Assessment for Frontotemporal Dementia and Primary Psychiatric Disorders".Neuropsychology review · 2023Article
- Gaps in clinical research in frontotemporal dementia: A call for diversity and disparities-focused research.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2023Article
- Frontotemporal lobar degeneration.Nature reviews. Disease primers · 2023Review
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Abstract
The use of social tasks in the neuropsychological assessment of the behavioral variant of frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) is at present not required by diagnostic guidelines, despite extensive literature shows relevant social cognitive dysfunctions in such patients. In this systematic review, we explored the clinical maturity of social cognition measures in the diagnosis of bvFTD. Papers were selected according to the PRISMA guidelines by searching the PubMed and Medline databases. Only papers reporting indices of diagnostic accuracy and/or sensitivity/specificity in classifying bvFTD from controls or from other relevant diseases were considered. Quality of evidence was assessed through QUADAS-2. Among the 663 articles entered in the paper selection only 14 papers were eligible for the scope of the present review and showed an overall moderate-to-low quality. The major risk of bias was the lack of pathological confirmation. The evaluation of the accuracy of social cognition tasks in bvFTD detection compared to normal controls, as well as in the discrimination with Alzheimer's disease and psychiatric patients, is mainly focused on emotion recognition and theory of mind. However, the use of different cognitive measures, variable task formats and the limited normative data hamper study comparability. Although literature seems to suggest that emotion recognition and ToM tasks could be the best choice to ensure a high diagnostic accuracy in clinical settings, further comparative studies are required and no recommendation concerning the use of a specific social task in bvFTD diagnosis can be currently provided.
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