Impaired cooperation and prosocial learning during trust game in behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia.

ABSTRACT: BackgroundInterpersonal trust and cooperation are important aspects of prosocial behavior. Dementia can alter social cognition, but it remains unclear how these changes alter propensity to trust and willingness to cooperate with others, and whether there are differences between types of dementia.ObjectiveTo determine if patients with behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) differ from patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and cognitively normal controls in trusting behaviors and learning to cooperate.Methods38 bvFTD patients, 20 AD patients and 26 cognitively normal participants invested money in two separate partners to receive a proportion of the profit in return. One partner returned a fair proportion of the investment (cooperative partner) while the other partner did

SUBMITTER: Lee JJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12664923 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature