Emotion Processing in Frontotemporal Dementia

Authors: Arshad F*

DOI: 10.23880/nnoaj-16000143

Volume 4, Issue 3

Abstract

Marshall, et al. [1] in their recent study on functional neuroanatomy of emotion processing in frontotemporal dementias (FTD) provide newer insights in terms of networks in FTD which may have implications for biomarker development and thus early diagnosis. Authors state that facial emotion processing in FTD is likely to require dynamic stimuli that closely resemble the naturalistic socio-emotional signals of daily life and have addressed these issues using simultaneous videos of dynamic facial expressions and functional MRI. Though an ideal way of performing the study, but patients with FTD syndromes especially behavioural variant FTD (by FTD) have inattention, executive dysfunction and inappropriate behaviour

Keywords: inappropriate behaviour; Dementia

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