Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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3237665 | General Hospital Psychiatry | 2012 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
Semantic dementia (SD) is a neurodegenerative disease belonging to the spectrum of frontotemporal dementia that presents with loss of memory for words and prevalent left temporal pole atrophy. Behavioral disorders, particularly obsessive-compulsive symptoms, are frequent during the course of the disease. We describe a patient presenting with late-onset typical obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) that lasted for 10 years as an isolated condition before developing clinical and neuroimaging features of SD. This case alerts clinicians that late-onset OCD may be a psychiatric presentation of a neurodegenerative disorder such as frontotemporal dementia and requires an accurate diagnostic work-up.
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Authors
Sara M.D., Giulia M.D., Tommaso M.D., Francesca Ph.D., Diego M.D., Renzo M.D., Annachiara M.D.,