Question 160 · LEK · Frontotemporal dementia
A 55-year-old female patient, apathetic, passive, little active, has been struggling with finding words for some time, almost does not say a word. When asked what she has been doing, she smiles and gives a stereotypic answer in an indifferent mood: ”just doing nothing”. The severity of symptoms has been increasing for about two years. Which is the probable diagnosis?
- A. early-onset Alzheimer’s disease.
- B. late-onset schizophrenia.
- C. drug-resistant depression.
- D. frontotemporal dementia.
- E. prion disease.
Hint
Consider an early-onset dementia that starts with apathy, behavioural change and language problems rather than memory loss.
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