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Frontal variant Alzheimer's disease: A systematic narrative synthesis

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CORTEX
卷 166, 期 -, 页码 121-153

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ELSEVIER MASSON, CORP OFF
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2023.05.007

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Frontal variant Alzheimer's; Behavioural variant Alzheimer's; Dysexecutive Alzheimer's; Behavioural variant frontotemporal; dementia

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This narrative synthesis summarizes the cognitive profiles of frontal variant Alzheimer's disease (fvAD) and highlights the need for further investigation into differential diagnostic markers, such as executive dysfunction and behavioral symptoms. It also reveals some similarities between fvAD and typical AD, which may guide future research in disease diagnosis.
Background: Frontal variant Alzheimer's disease (fvAD) is considered a rare form of Alzheimer's disease (AD) which may be misdiagnosed as behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD). The literature has tended to conflate behavioural and executive dysfunction in fvAD cohorts and uses both AD diagnostic criteria and bvFTD diagnostic criteria to classify fvAD cohorts. The primary aim of this narrative synthesis was to summarise neuropsychological findings in fvAD cohorts in the context of established AD pathology. Methods: EMBASE, PsycINFO, PROQUEST and MEDLINE databases were searched for studies eligible for inclusion. Studies with both neuropsychological and biomarker evidence were included in the final narrative synthesis. Results: Ten studies were reviewed, including samples totalling 342 fvAD participants, 178 typical AD participants and 250 bvFTD participants. The review revealed areas worthy of further investigation that may aid differential diagnosis, including the degree of executive dysfunction in fvAD cohorts relative to bvFTD cohorts, the onset of behavioural and cognitive symptomatology, and similarities between fvAD and typical AD cognitive profiles. Conclusion: There was insufficient neuropsychological evidence to clearly differentiate fvAD and bvFTD cognitive phenotypes, however, the review has highlighted distinctive features of the two disorders that may guide differential diagnosis in future research. Moreover, the review has highlighted issues involving disparate diagnostic criteria used to classify fvAD cohorts, contributing to variation in findings. & COPY; 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

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