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- Seminars in Old Age Psychiatry
- College Seminars Series
- Seminars in Old Age Psychiatry
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Note
- Chapter 1 Healthy Ageing
- Chapter 2 Clinical Assessment
- Chapter 3 Cognitive Assessment
- Chapter 4 Imaging
- Chapter 5 Delirium
- Chapter 6 Alzheimer’s Disease
- Chapter 7 Vascular Dementia
- Chapter 8 Dementia with Lewy Bodies
- Chapter 9 Frontotemporal Dementia
- Chapter 10 Depression
- Chapter 11 Bipolar Disorder
- Chapter 12 Psychosis
- Chapter 13 Anxiety Disorders
- Chapter 14 Drug and Alcohol Misuse
- Chapter 15 Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- Chapter 16 Medications
- Chapter 17 Electroconvulsive Therapy and Neurostimulation
- Chapter 18 Psychological Therapies
- Chapter 19 Role of an Old Age Psychiatrist
- Chapter 20 Consultation-Liaison
- Chapter 21 Palliative Care
- Chapter 22 Care Homes
- Chapter 23 Carers
- Chapter 24 Law, Capacity and Ethics
- Chapter 25 Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers
- Chapter 26 Clinical Scenarios
- Index
- References
Chapter 9 - Frontotemporal Dementia
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 June 2019
- Seminars in Old Age Psychiatry
- College Seminars Series
- Seminars in Old Age Psychiatry
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Note
- Chapter 1 Healthy Ageing
- Chapter 2 Clinical Assessment
- Chapter 3 Cognitive Assessment
- Chapter 4 Imaging
- Chapter 5 Delirium
- Chapter 6 Alzheimer’s Disease
- Chapter 7 Vascular Dementia
- Chapter 8 Dementia with Lewy Bodies
- Chapter 9 Frontotemporal Dementia
- Chapter 10 Depression
- Chapter 11 Bipolar Disorder
- Chapter 12 Psychosis
- Chapter 13 Anxiety Disorders
- Chapter 14 Drug and Alcohol Misuse
- Chapter 15 Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- Chapter 16 Medications
- Chapter 17 Electroconvulsive Therapy and Neurostimulation
- Chapter 18 Psychological Therapies
- Chapter 19 Role of an Old Age Psychiatrist
- Chapter 20 Consultation-Liaison
- Chapter 21 Palliative Care
- Chapter 22 Care Homes
- Chapter 23 Carers
- Chapter 24 Law, Capacity and Ethics
- Chapter 25 Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers
- Chapter 26 Clinical Scenarios
- Index
- References
Summary
The first description of a patient with progressive language disturbance and left superior temporal gyrus atrophy was by Pick in 1892, although it was not until 1911 that Alzheimer coined the term Pick bodies to describe a specific histopathological finding in such focal dementia cases. The concept of ‘Pick’s disease’ later emerged in 1925 and 1926 with a description by Gans [1] (in Holland) and then Onari and Spatz (in Germany) [2]. It took a further 30 years to recognise that only around 20% of cases had the characteristic Pick’s pathology [3] and, later, that a multitude of other pathologies were associated with atrophy of the frontal and/or temporal lobes [4,5].
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- Seminars in Old Age Psychiatry , pp. 101 - 111Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019