What is it about?
Frontotemporal dementia is a challenging disease to diagnose, with patients often presenting with psychiatric symptoms. We report a high prevalence of psychiatric medication use in Frontotemporal dementia patients before diagnosis.
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Why is it important?
There are no approved treatments for frontotemporal dementia. Thus, we need more information on the symptomatic treatment habits and medication use in these patients from real world clinical datasets.
Perspectives
I hope that this article highlights the need for more studies to evaluate the symptomatic medication use with its potential harms and benefits in the FTD patients, as it seems that psychiatric medication use is common in these patients.
Kasper Katisko
University of Eastern Finland
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This page is a summary of: Psychopharmacological Medication Use in Frontotemporal Dementia at the Time of Diagnosis: Comparison with Alzheimer’s Disease, Journal of Alzheimer s Disease, September 2023, IOS Press,
DOI: 10.3233/jad-230494.
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