Criminal behavior in frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer disease.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Neurodegenerative diseases can cause dysfunction of neural structures involved in judgment, executive function, emotional processing, sexual behavior, violence, and self-awareness. Such dysfunctions can lead to antisocial and criminal behavior that appears for the first time in the adult or middle-aged individual or even later in life.

Objective

To investigate the frequency and type of criminal behavior among patients with a diagnosed dementing disorder.

Design, setting, and participants

We conducted a retrospective medical record review of 2397 patients who were seen at the University of California, San Francisco, Memory and Aging Center between 1999 and 2012, including 545 patients with Alzheimer disease (AD), 171 patients with behavioral variant of front

SUBMITTER: Liljegren M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4432918 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature