Substance use history in behavioral-variant frontotemporal dementia versus primary progressive aphasia.

ABSTRACT: As older adults are prone to cognitive disorders, the interaction of the fields of substance use and misuse and cognitive neuroscience is an emerging area of research. Substance use has been reported in some subtypes of frontotemporal dementia, such as behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia. However, characterization of substance use in other subtypes of frontotemporal dementia, such as primary progressive aphasia, is unknown. The objective of this baseline analysis was to explore whether any measures of substance use history differed significantly among behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (n = 842) and primary progressive aphasia (n = 526) in a large national dataset. The National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center's Uniform Data Set study is a national dataset that collects data

SUBMITTER: Kalapatapu RK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4720534 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan-Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature